The Film-Makers' Cooperative welcomes Giovanni Santia (Curator, Ridgewood Essential Cinema) to our screening room (475 Park Avenue South, 6th Floor) on WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18th, at 7pm, to present a program of rarely-screened films by Sharon Couzin!

As a founding member of the Experimental Film Coalition, Onion City Experimental Film Festival, and chair of the SAIC film department, Sharon Couzin (1943-2019) was a luminary of the Midwest avant-garde community. Coupled with her crucial role in shaping and guiding the experimental film scene, she was also a prodigious filmmaker. Her work is celebrated for its captivating and dreamlike quality, achieved through a dizzying command of technique. She is renowned for her intricate use of the optical printer, utilizing layering and manipulation to craft evocative visuals which awe the viewer. This technical brilliance merges body and image, creating a profound visual unity between figure and environment. Her films often focus on dance and language, incorporating a compelling self-reflexivity, turning the camera inward on the act of cinematic creation itself. —Giovanni Santia

“Images of a woman in dance, in flora, in picture, in eyes, in architecture, in sunshine, in color, in crystal, in space, in confusion, in danger, in disintegration, in her hand, in birth, in the Valley of Sorrow, in the sea, in repetition, in sculpture and in herself.” —Sharon Couzin

"Some really extraordinary subliminal combinations are happenings.” —Pat O’Neil

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PROGRAM:

1. Roseblood, 8 minutes
2. A Trojan House, 25 minutes
3. Pauline, 18 minutes
4. Shells and Rushes, 15 minutes

Total Run Time: 66 minutes.