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Cinenova : Mary Kelly Project : 23 hour interval

Saturday 15 May & Sunday 16 May, 6pm. Cert. 16
Curzon Soho
Tickets £4/£3 Concession

'Mary Kelly' is an artist-led project that attempts to articulate the politics of site and self through a radical engagement with cinema. It is organized around a series of screenings of work drawn largely from the Cinenova distribution catalogue collectively and individually, in London, since May 2003.

Curzon Cinemas welcome the 'Mary Kelly' project with a screening of The Man Who Envied Women by Yvonne Rainer and the launch of the printed publication. The film will be shown in two parts... with a 23 hour interval.

The Man Who Envied Women by Yvonne Rainer. US, 1985, 121mins

Revolutionary choreographer and filmmaker, Rainer explores here issues of sexuality, aging, power relations and political activism. She constructs an honest, graceful and wickedly funny account of a self-satisfied womanizer, a man "who knows almost too much about women." Along the way, she reveals the oppositions we create, not only between theory and action, but also of the conscious and the unconscious, intellect and emotion, and our personal and global concerns.

Saturday 15 May at 6pm : The Man Who Envied Women - Part one

#1: She told me I'd never be a committed feminist until I gave up men.

Sunday 16 May at 6pm : The Man Who Envied Women - Part two

Martha Rosler (V-O): I would feel I was being tricked into trying to deal with things that have become incommensurable, as though they weren't incommensurable.

" ... I think he confuses the political and the representational, finding a stable place to be housed is of a totally different nature from representing that ... " Yvonne Rainer discussing her film with Ginette Vincendeau and the Creteil Women's film festival audience in 1986 (Screen, Volume 28, 1987.)

" ... I think she confuses the representational with instructional, but underestimates the subtle, less sinister power of representation to effect and influence a person, not as an instruction, or attempt at 'real' experience, but as visibilty, something closer to reassurance. ... " Emma Hedditch