Spring Arts Preview
FREE EVENT!
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With a packed house at our second-annual Fall Arts Preview this past September, IHP is having another season-opening party! Join us to hear about our upcoming events and enjoy food and drink, music and films!
The Spring Arts Preview includes a multimedia presentation of upcoming events by IHP curators, live performance by Blues Control with surprise animated 16mm films and screening of Jean Vigo’s 1933 classic Zero For Conduct, in a new 35mm print by Janus Films.
BLUES CONTROL
Lea Cho, keyboards; Russ Waterhouse, guitar, electronics
Blues Control doesn’t sound like any other band in history. A unique combination of keyboards, guitar and tape manipulation, the duo casts their palette wide. Invoking such different genres (sometimes simultaneously) as new age, krautrock and noise, Blues Control has found audiences on tours across the US, Canada, Europe and beyond. After releasing records on labels like Sub Pop, Holy Mountain and Woodsist, their most recent album Local Flavor was released by perennial Philadelphia favorite Siltbreeze Records. Now based in the Lehigh Valley, Blues Control have performed at the SXSW Music Festival, Museu do Chiado in Lisbon, the Film Society of Lincoln Center, and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia.
There is blues in the band, but none of a specifically formal sort – at its highest volume and most violent, this is the ghost of whatever was kicking around in everyone’s heads in the late 60s when metal wasn’t codified as such and there was no such thing as a fuzz pedal too overdriven. – Ned Raggett, All Music Guide
followed by
ZERO DU CONDUITE (Zero for Conduct) – Restored 35mm print
dir. Jean Vigo, France, 1933, 35mm, 44mins, b/w, French w/ English subtitles
Zéro de conduite is as brief yet brilliant as Jean Vigo’s short career. Though he died at the age of 29 (due to complications from tuberculosis), the young filmmaker left behind four films that rank among the greatest in history. Arguably his best film, Zero for Conduct takes place in a repressive boarding school where prank-loving youngsters repeatedly disobey orders from their stuffy schoolmasters. Portraying the students as tiny freedom fighters, the anarchic film presaged such coming-of-age classics as Fanny and Alexander, If… and The 400 Blows.
Based on the director’s own experiences as a youth, Zéro de conduite presents childhood as a time of unfettered imagination and brazen rule-flouting. It’s a sweet-natured vision of sabotage made vivid by dynamic visual experiments – including the famous, blissful slow-motion pillow fight. – The Criterion Collection
