Anthology Film Archives32 2nd AveNew York, NYThursday, February 27 at 6:30pm

This rare screening is presented as a prelude to a two-day symposium on the renowned poet, essayist, and visual artist Etel Adnan. Organized by Omar Berrada and Simone Fattal on the centenary of Adnan’s birth, the symposium will take place on February 28 and March 1, at The Poetry Project and Giorno Poetry Systems.

MotionEtel Adnan1980–89/201292 min, Super-8mm-to-digital

In the 1980s, Adnan regularly traveled with a Super-8mm camera in hand. She visited New York frequently, staying at a friend’s apartment in a high-rise overlooking the East River. While there, she would repeatedly attempt to capture the sun touching skyscrapers’ windows, the geometry of bridges, the marriage of light and water, the movement of barges on the river, the shapes of factory smoke — the oddly meditative poetry of inexorable motion at the immediate edge of city life. The footage was retrieved and digitized three decades later, and edited into a feature-length film, Motion, which premiered at Documenta 13 in 2012.

This is a free screening, however, tickets must be reserved on the Anthology Film Archives website.