May 18th
Race d'Ep
Sonbert Chomont
04.25.12
Yonemotos
03.28.12
Dependent Art Fair
03.10.12
Anger/ Handelman
02.29.12
Charles Atlas!
01.25.12
Curt McDowell's
Sparkle's Tavern
12.28.11
LA Plays Itself
a special screening at Spank Party
12.4.11
An Unseen Cloud:
Thornton, Leventhal, Dougherty
w/ Women Make Movies
11.30.11
Dirty Talk: a cinematic reading event
in conjunction w/ MIX NYC
11.27.11
Gary Indiana/ A Coupla White
Faggots Sitting Around Talking
w/ Queer Text
11.1.11
Fancy Days, Fancy Times
films by Luther Price
10.26.11
Rosa von Praunheim's
City of Lost Souls
w/ Translady Fanzine
9.28.11
KUCHARS!
a rooftop screening
8.31.11
Under the Stars
A rooftop screening
7.27.11
Newfest Screening:
The Ballad of Genesis & Lady Jaye
7.24.11
FEMALE TROUBLE
(Genderfuck program)
6.29.11
Taxi Zum Klo
w/ Little Joe and Ronald Gregg
5.25.11
Michael Robinson/Jack Smith
4.20.11
Madame X - An Absolute Ruler
w/ Gary Indiana
3.30.11
The Sex Garage by Fred Halsted /
Finished by William E. Jones
2.23.11
The Films of Curtis Harrington
1.26.11
The Sex Garage and Finished
Wednesday, February 23rd, 8pm
Fred Halsted, The Sex Garage, 16mm on DVD, 1972
William E. Jones, Finished, 16mm, 1997
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Introduction by DL curator, Bradford Nordeen
William E. Jones has crafted a remarkable art career around pornography. Emerging in the mid-90s on the indie scene with the documentary Massillon, Jones’ second feature, Finished follows the filmmaker’s obsession with Quebecois porn star, Alan Lambert. Finished is as much about a viewer’s heated voyeurism as it is an account of the troubled actor - who committed public suicide in a misguided act of political defiance. After the film’s release, Jones took to working with historic porn footage, organizing massive archives for various collectors and institutions.
He emerged with a new subject: Fred Halsted, a 70s porntrepreneur who opened Halstead’s, a stand-and-fuck bar in Silverlake, ran the magazine Package, and directed experimental sex films like LA Plays Itself, A Night At Halstead’s and the short, The Sex Garage. Dirty Looks brings together these obsessions.
**the screening contains explicit material not suitable for minors**
Massillon will be released this August as a limited edition DVD by Facets. Jones’ book on Fred Halsted will be released by Semiotext(e) later this year.
Some great reads about Jones and Halsted:
William E. Jones' 500 Words on Art Forum
'Halsted Plays Himself' by Jones on Art Forum
Fred Halsted, The Butt Interview (Speculatively written by Jones)
Garry Morris on the films of Halsted on Bright Lights Film Journal
An interview between Jones and Bruce Hainley in Bidoun
Dirty Looks is a roaming screening series, a salon of influences, an open platform for inquiry, discussion and debate. Occurring the last Wednesday of every month, Dirty Looks is programmed by Bradford Nordeen
dirtylooksnyc[at]gmail.com
Dirty Looks is:
Director / Bradford Nordeen
Projectionist / Alex Lake
Design / Deric Carner
Interns / Karl McCool
Dirty Looks runs on suggested door donations. Online donations help us to continue our free public programming.
