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The Unfinished Film

What can be learned from unfinished films, from works that arrive to us as fragments? Considered collectively—from the infamous excesses of Erich von Stroheim’s Queen Kelly to the grand ambitions of Hollis Frampton’s Magellan—perhaps they constitute a secret canon, one made up of the most raw and, in turn, revealing sides of an artist’s practice. Such works might be held in any number of intermediary states: left intentionally unfinished, abandoned out of frustration, cut short by death, curtailed by political circumstance. To watch these films is to unveil the particularities of their origins, to see the vicissitudes of their process and production laid bare.











When: Thu., May. 5, 2016 at 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Where: The Met Breuer
945 Madison Ave.
212-535-7710
Price: Free with museum admission
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What can be learned from unfinished films, from works that arrive to us as fragments? Considered collectively—from the infamous excesses of Erich von Stroheim’s Queen Kelly to the grand ambitions of Hollis Frampton’s Magellan—perhaps they constitute a secret canon, one made up of the most raw and, in turn, revealing sides of an artist’s practice. Such works might be held in any number of intermediary states: left intentionally unfinished, abandoned out of frustration, cut short by death, curtailed by political circumstance. To watch these films is to unveil the particularities of their origins, to see the vicissitudes of their process and production laid bare.

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