{"id":4,"date":"2007-06-30T14:35:52","date_gmt":"2007-06-30T20:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.slowtale.net\/news\/?p=4"},"modified":"2015-04-08T16:36:15","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T22:36:15","slug":"confronting-paradise-in-new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brunner-sung.com\/?p=4","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Confronting Paradise&#8221; in New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.slowtale.net\/v3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/102.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"Still from &lt;i&gt;Footnotes to a House of Love&lt;\/i&gt; (Laida Lertxundi, 2007)\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><br \/>\nConfronting Paradise: New Film and Video from CalArts<br \/>\nWhen: 8 pm Sunday, July 8, 2007<br \/>\nWhere: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetanknyc.org\">The Tank<\/a>   279 Church Street, New York, NY<br \/>\nTickets: $7<\/p>\n<p>Valencia, California, June 18, 2007\u2014The Tank is pleased to present <em>Confronting Paradise<\/em>, a program of short films and videos from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). Last summer, The Museum of Modern Art screened <em>Tomorrowland: CalArts in Moving Pictures<\/em> \u2013 a 30-year retrospective of student work from CalArts. Confronting Paradise picks up where Tomorrowland ended, with new 16mm, super-8 and video work that challenges the bounds of contemporary American film and video culture.<\/p>\n<p>The CalArts film and video program &#8220;has consistently produced work that is at once intimate, inventive, and technically sophisticated,&#8221; noted Tomorrowland&#8217;s curator Joshua Siegel. The 14 current students and recent graduates of CalArts\u2019 MFA program featured in <em>Confronting Paradise<\/em> continue to forge new creative pathways. &#8220;The work ranges from observational and essay-based documentary to abstract narrative forms,&#8221; said co-programmer Vera Brunner-Sung. &#8220;Above all, it is defined by its persistent level of inquiry into the world, and uniquely personal vision.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Image: still from <em>Footnotes to a House of Love<\/em> (Laida Lertxundi, 2007)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Confronting Paradise: New Film and Video from CalArts When: 8 pm Sunday, July 8, 2007 Where: The Tank 279 Church Street, New York, NY Tickets: $7 Valencia, California, June 18, 2007\u2014The Tank is pleased to present Confronting Paradise, a program of short films and videos from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). Last summer, The Museum of Modern Art screened Tomorrowland: CalArts in Moving Pictures \u2013 a 30-year retrospective of student work from CalArts. Confronting Paradise picks up where Tomorrowland<a class=\"entry-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brunner-sung.com\/?p=4\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[56,55,45],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-curation","tag-programming","tag-screenings"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brunner-sung.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brunner-sung.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brunner-sung.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brunner-sung.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brunner-sung.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brunner-sung.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3052,"href":"https:\/\/www.brunner-sung.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions\/3052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brunner-sung.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brunner-sung.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brunner-sung.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}