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SCREENING

Silverlake Life: The View from Here + 2 by Sadie Benning

Saturday, Sep 21, 2024 at 3:30 pm

Location: Bartos Screening Room

With Silverlake Life coproducer Doug Block in person

Silverlake Life: The View from Here 
Dirs. Tom Joslin, Peter Friedman. 1993, 99 mins. U.S. DCP. 

If Every Girl Had a Diary 
Dir. Sadie Benning. 1990, 8 mins. U.S. DCP. 

Jollies 
Dir. Sadie Benning. 1990, 11 mins. U.S. DCP. 

In his last year of life, filmmaker and professor Tom Joslin began a video diary that would capture the minutiae of living in the final stages of AIDS. He enlists former student Peter Friedman to finish the “tape” in the event he is unable to, and he brings his partner Mark into the project as well. The result, Silverlake Like: The View from Here, is a pivotal text of 1990s New Queer Cinema that won the Grand Jury Prize at the 1993 Sundance Film Festival, an elemental, shattering work of filmed autobiography, almost unbearably intimate, yet bursting with life and love and hope. Preceded by two early shorts by acclaimed artist Sadie Benning, which similarly brim with the possibilities afforded by turning the camera on one’s own life.  

Tickets: $15 / $11 senior and students / $9 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. 

Order tickets. Please pick up tickets at the Museum’s admissions desk upon arrival. All seating is general admission.