FILM SCREENING: Invisible Adversaries April 19, 2007

Invisible Adversaries, Valie Export, 1976, 112 min.

ALSO SHOWING:
Sunday, April 22, 2 p.m. Double Feature
2 p.m. Invisible Adversaries, Valie Export, 1976, 112 min.
4 p.m. Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Doniegel, 1956, 80 min.

Siegel and Export explore themes of paranoia and isolation in a pair of allegorical films about the loss of identity. Siegel’s original, based on Jack Finney’s 1954 serial, is rife with political overtones, suggesting the tense era of McCarthyism and the Cold War, while Export imbues her 1970s film with a feminist perspective and avant-garde depictions of a psychological breakdown.

About this FILM SERIES
Fidelity and Betrayal: Variations on the Remake
March 4–April 22

There are remakes and remakes. Most of the time films are remade simply in order to sell them to a larger, more mainstream—usually American—public. But sometimes a remake—by adapting, displacing, or just feeding off another film—not only generates something different and new, it reveals peculiarities of the original that we wouldn’t otherwise see. Whether it is an homage or a travesty, a remake can be faithful to the original in changing it—or it can betray the original by imitating it.

There are remakes in painting, too. The exhibition Picasso and American Art includes instances of American artists remaking, as new versions, particular works by Pablo Picasso, quoting passages of his paintings, or mimicking his style. In painting as in film the remake can, sometimes, be a valid and exciting genre.

This series presents a few of the many examples of creative remaking that exist in the history of cinema.

Thursdays: $7 general; $5 SFMOMA members, students, and seniors. Does not include Museum admission Sundays: Free with Museum admission.

Film at SFMOMA is generously supported by the Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation and Carla Emil and Rich Silverstein.

Tickets
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