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Film Screening: The Sixth Face of the Pentagon and The Embassy

October 11, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Chris Marker

Peter Blum Gallery

526 W 29th St
The Sixth Face of the Pentagon

The Sixth Face of the Pentagon offers firsthand documentation of the march on the Pentagon on October 21, 1967, in which Marker participated. Capturing the drama and charades of the first major demonstration against the Vietnam War, this film has a place in the ongoing chronicles of political resistance that are central to the exhibition and to Marker's oeuvre as a whole. (1968, 28 mins., A First Run / Icarus Films Release)

The Embassy

One of Chris Marker’s few ‘fiction’ films, The Embassy shows political dissidents seeking refuge in a foreign embassy after a military coup d'état in an unidentified country. Realized shortly after the Pinochet coup in Chile, this combination of silent Super-8 footage paired with a man’s voiceover creates a chilling division between sanctuary and external chaos that ultimately undoes itself in the film’s surprise ending. (1973, 20 mins., A First Run / Icarus Films Release)

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