Join us this summer as we celebrate the darkness of film noir featuring Giuseppe Boccassini’s Experimental decoupage alongside two genre classics.

RAGTAG
dir. Giuseppe Boccassini, 2022
Germany, France, Italy, 84min
In English.

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SATURDAY JULY 22 – 7:30PM + Q&A
THURSDAY JULY 27 – 7:30PM +Q&A

“An atlas of film gestures and Pathosformel: the montage – better the disassembly – isolates moments from the narrative and separates bodies from events, opening up to the unthinkable and the invisible of film noir. Ragtag, thus, becomes an immense archive of the imaginary that, far from being sequential and historical, becomes intensive and organic: a film-experience beyond film as such.” – Federico Rossin, film historian.

RAGTAG is an expressionistic assemblage film following a chronological timeline mined from what French critics notoriously coined, film noir. The decoupage-based film accounts for 310 noir films, spanning from the early 1940s to the late 1950s while also including some foreign-made pictures that share an affinity with the genre. Boccassini’s experiment is as musical as it is daring; carefully assembled & labored on in a pulsing yet innovative way attuned to the delicateness of gestures, extreme close-ups, and the daring conceit of difference and repetition, recontextualizing the genre’s most memorable moments to enable a new way of seeing and experiencing.

THE CHASE
dir. Arthur Ripley, 1946
United States, 88min
In English.

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MONDAY, JULY 3 – 7:30PM
FRIDAY JULY 21 – 10:00PM

Arthur Ripley’s THE CHASE is an eerie blend of noir aesthetics and psychological tension exploring the limits of moral ambiguity and the pursuit of justice. Starring Peter Lorre & Steve Cochran as a pair of sadistic sociopaths alongside Robert Cummings (DIAL M FOR MUDER, SABOTEUR) as the newly hired chauffeur, THE CHASE is a fascinating and dreamlike subversion of the genre acting as a fitting pair to the expressionistic RAGTGAG.

KANSAS CITY CONFIDENTIAL
dir. Phil Karlson, 1952
United States, 99min
In English.

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SATURDAY, JULY 1 – 5PM
SATURDAY JULY 15 – 3PM

Phil Karlson’s classic film noir is a gritty anxiety-induced journey through a city cloaked in secrets. Hard-boiled and stylish and often referenced as a pinnacle to the genre, Karlson’s masterwork is an innovative and influential take on the heist film and a fitting anxiety-ridden companion to Boccassini’s RAGTAG.