I'm looking forward to witnessing this Hungarian artist's varied presentation today, though
I wish it had included his 1992 film "Wittgenstein Tractatus":
arthistory.berkeley.edu/davis/Nichols&Renov.pdf
www.rouge.com.au/12/forgacs.html
Still, the lecture and films should be much more stimulating than any public poetry
reading offered up this fall within Wash DC metro:
Film, Memory, and Amnesia
December 7 at 2:00
NATGALART
Péter Forgács, filmmaker
The lives of ordinary Hungarians are exposed and examined in the work of media artist
Péter Forgács. Through examples of forgotten home movies from the 1920s and 1930s
that he has recast, Forgács discusses his unique approach to media and his development
as an artist, while providing a general introduction to the films that follow.
Miss Universe of 1929
December 7 at 3:30
The delicate story of cousins Lisl Goldarbeiter and Marci Tänzer, both born in 1907 to a
large middle-class Austro-Hungarian Jewish family, is retold largely through Marci's home
movies of his beloved Lisl, whose rise to beauty pageant stardom culminated in her
crowning as the first Miss Universe.
Own Death
December 7 at 5:00
Poetically detailing the sensation of a near fatal heart attack, Own Death is Forgács' first
foray into fiction, based on Hungarian writer Péter Nádas' biographical novella. A
seemingly objective meditation on life is rendered subjective through Nádas' first-person
voiceover and Forgács' use of rich evocative imagery.
By contrast, here's how the Poet Laureate serves Congress. And to think she could have
invited the respective "Grand Dragons":
December 9
Poetry at Noon, the"Airpoets" from Indiana including immediate past State Poet Laureate
Joyce Brinkman and current Laureate Norbert Krapf with Ruthelen Burns and Joseph
Heithaus. Poems by the"Airpoets"are part of the stained glass art that will adorn the new
Indianapolis International Airport scheduled to open later this fall.
November 18
Poetry at Noon, "Celebrating Kentucky Poets." State Poet Laureate Jane Gentry Vance
introduces three native Kentuckians who have won the Yale Series of Younger Poets
award: Maurice Manning, Tony Crunk and Davis McCombs, noon-1 p.m., Whittall Pavilion,
Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First Street, SE. This event is cosponsored by the Poetry
and Literature Center and the Center for the Book and is supported in part by a
partnership grant from the Kentucky Arts Council, the state arts agency which receives
state tax dollars and funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Barry Alpert
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