Artists Space

In The Poem About Love You Don't Write The Word Love
Film Series at Anthology Film Archives
Program 3

Screening
January 22, 2007, 7:30pm

Program 3 of the film series accompanying the exhibition, In The Poem About Love You Don't Write The Word Love, held at Anthology Film Archives.

A figure with dark, short hair wearing a brown shirt and white pants looks into the viewfinder of a large videocamera. They appear to stand on a precipice above the ocean, and their camera is aimed at the water below them.
[A figure with dark, short hair wearing a brown shirt and white pants looks into the viewfinder of a large videocamera. They appear to stand on a precipice above the ocean, and their camera is aimed at the water below them.]

Marcel Broodthaers, La Pipe (Magritte) (1969)
35mm film, black-and-white; 3 minutes. Courtesy Maria Gilissen, Brussels.

Marcel Broodthaers, Ceci ne serait pas une pipe (Un Film du Musée d’Art Moderne) (This wouldn’t be a pipe) (1969-71)
35mm film, black-and-white; 2 minutes. 20 seconds. Courtesy Maria Gilissen, Brussels.

Marcel Broodthaers, La Pipe (Gestalt, Abbildung, Figur, Bild) (1969-71)
16mm film, black-and-white with blue tinting; 4 minutes, 20 seconds.
Courtesy Maria Gilissen, Brussels.

This wouldn’t be a pipe
A white wall. A jet of smoke. A clock surrounded by smoke.
A pipe on its own smoking. A pipe not smoking.
A subtitle underlines these images: FIGURES. It is a transposition of the Magritte painting: Ceci n’est pas une pipe.

—Marcel Broodthaers

Ayreen Anastas, Pasolini Pa Palestine (2003)
DVD, colour, sound; 60 minutes. Courtesy of the artist.

Inspired by Pier Paolo Pasolini’s film Seeking Locations in Palestine for the Gospel According to Saint Matthew (1963), Anastas adapts a new script which attempts to repeat Pasolini's endeavors and resuscitates his missed opportunities.