Things Ricky Forgot to Teach But Somehow I Learned

Mon. Mar 20, 2017 7:00pm - 8:30pm EDT
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Director: Mary Jane Doherty


Program Details: GRAVITY, 40 minutes, 1985, USA, b/w, 16mm to digital + two other short works by the filmmaker


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Director Mary Jane Doherty will attend in person for discussion.


About the Film:


It’s the early 1980s, the final days of MIT’s notorious Film/Video Section.  Famous filmmaker Ricky Leacock was in no mood to teach.  And his graduate student, Mary Jane, had no idea how to learn. Yet something happened, some transaction between the two that only now, decades later, can be expressed in words.


This evening we look at how inspiration works, in its most mysterious form.  Mary Jane will screen her “Science” Documentary, GRAVITY (1985, 40 minutes, b/w, 16mm to digital), featuring soon-to-be-Nobel Laureate Dr. Rainer Weiss, and bookend this main screening with her first short film, THREE FISH, and a clip from SONIC BOOM BOOM, a brand new work-in-progress.  We’ll see lessons learned – from the inane to the sublime – by one filmmaker who deeply reveres another.

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Brattle Theatre 40 Brattle Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
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