an evening with calder`s circus an evening with calder`s circus

present
AN EVENING WITH
CALDER’S CIRCUS
SCHEDULE:
5:30PM:
Cash Bar
6:00PM:
Screening of 2 short films:
THE GREAT SAIL
LE GRAND CIRQUE CALDER 1927
7:00PM: Reception with cash
bar, circus snacks and an interactive
juggling demonstration!
THE GREAT SAIL
(Robert Gardner, 1966, 10 min, USA, B&W, DVD)
THURSDAY
APR 5TH
6 PM
NASHER MUSEUM
LECTURE HALL
F RE E!
To buy Calder exhibition tickets for viewing
before or after the film program, visit
tickets.duke.edu or purchase on site.
Sponsored by the Nasher Museum of Art and
the Program in Arts of the Moving Image (AMI)
Alexander Calder’s LA GRANDE VOILE was erected on the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology campus in 1966 with the artist directing the work. As the
spectacular steel forms of this monumental stabile rise, it is filmed with time
lapse and verite photography. One can see that the structure owes its spare
elegance to the precision of its design and construction. Calder remains
absorbed in quiet concentration as skeptical students and bemused bystanders
observe the somewhat improbable event.
LE GRAND CIRQUE CALDER 1927
(Jean Painlevé, 1955, 44 min, France, Color, DVD)
Alexander Calder lived in Paris between 1926 and 1933, and during these years,
created and performed one of his most important and beloved works, a miniature
circus made from wire, string, rubber and other recycled materials. More than
twenty years later, Jean Painleve made the documentary film LE GRAND CIRQUE
CALDER 1927, in which Calder playfully performs the circus for a small audience
of friends: pulling strings, activating levers, turning cranks and releasing springs.
Share Calder’s sense of joy as he brings his tiny sculptural world of animal acts
and human wonders to life for the audience.
http://ami.duke.edu/screensociety/schedule