Welcome to Low Cinema
Dir. Rich Remsberg and Shawn Rosenheim, USA, 90 min.
Join us for The Human Machine, the first installment of a new film series presented by Cinema Ephemera.
Rich Remsberg and Shawn Rosenheim have curated an evening of ephemeral films: vintage classroom instruction, industrial animations, forgotten children’s TV shows, declassified military training films, religious movies, scraps of stock footage, and a bunch of weird science stuff.
“These are films that were not necessarily meant to last beyond their original showings,” said Remsberg.
“They weren’t even necessarily meant to be considered films.”
“This is an accidental chronicle of 20th century America,” adds Rosenheim, speaking of their collection culled from government archives, flea markets, dumpsters, and the basements of old hoarders.
“This is a world both very familiar and very strange.”
Travel with us through the old, weird America. From 1920s personal hygiene guides to NASA’s zero-gravity experiments to amateur disco exhibitions, this is a celebration of the ordinary and the forgotten. Some of it is funny. Some is disturbing. Much of it is unbelievably beautiful – a revelation of our world in all its poverty and extravagance. “Breaking open the original context of these films allows us to see the gems among the pot shards,” said Remsberg. “You’ll never look at the 20th Century in the same way again.”
All sales are final; no refunds or exchanges. Five minutes after the listed showtime, any unused tickets will be considered no-shows and released to standby customers.
Cinema Ephemera
Dir. Rich Remsberg and Shawn Rosenheim, USA, 90 min.
Join us for The Human Machine, the first installment of a new film series presented by Cinema Ephemera.
Rich Remsberg and Shawn Rosenheim have curated an evening of ephemeral films: vintage classroom instruction, industrial animations, forgotten children’s TV shows, declassified military training films, religious movies, scraps of stock footage, and a bunch of weird science stuff.
“These are films that were not necessarily meant to last beyond their original showings,” said Remsberg.
“They weren’t even necessarily meant to be considered films.”
“This is an accidental chronicle of 20th century America,” adds Rosenheim, speaking of their collection culled from government archives, flea markets, dumpsters, and the basements of old hoarders.
“This is a world both very familiar and very strange.”
Travel with us through the old, weird America. From 1920s personal hygiene guides to NASA’s zero-gravity experiments to amateur disco exhibitions, this is a celebration of the ordinary and the forgotten. Some of it is funny. Some is disturbing. Much of it is unbelievably beautiful – a revelation of our world in all its poverty and extravagance. “Breaking open the original context of these films allows us to see the gems among the pot shards,” said Remsberg. “You’ll never look at the 20th Century in the same way again.”
All sales are final; no refunds or exchanges. Five minutes after the listed showtime, any unused tickets will be considered no-shows and released to standby customers.
