Flirt + Film Comment Live with Tom Gunning

Introduced by Tom Gunning

Followed by a live taping of the Film Comment Podcast with editors Devika Girish and Clinton Krute, Tom Gunning, and David Schwartz.  

Dir. Hal Hartley. 1996, 85 mins. US. DCP. With Bill Sage, Dwight Ewell, Miho Nikaido, Parker Posey, Martin Donovan. Hartley’s experimental narrative tells a simple story of love and loss in three cities (New York, Berlin, Tokyo), repeating the same situations but with subtle shifts. Tom Gunning writes, “Flirt dissects the paradoxes of repetition and transformation, creating a film that is at once an experiment (hence a discovery), a demonstration (hence a proof) and a game (hence an entertainment). Rarely has a filmmaker let us into the processes of inspiration provided by formal choices so candidly. Before our very eyes Hartley shows the way an image and a sound, a character and an environment, a story and a situation, all transform each other through rearrangement and juxtaposition. But Flirt is no classroom lecture, no laboratory distillation. Like all of Hartley’s films, Flirt is filled with passion, humor, regret, mystery and, ultimately, miracle.” Followed by a panel discussion presented by Film Comment, with co-editors Devika Girish and Clinton Krute, Tom Gunning, and David Schwartz.

Tickets: $17.50 / $12 senior and students / $10 youth (ages 3–17) / discounted for MoMI members ($7–$11). There is a $1.50 transaction fee per ticket for all online purchases. The cost of admission may be applied toward a same-day purchase of a membership. 

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