“Alberto Giacometti, Qu’est-ce qu’une tête ? ou la fuite du temps”
France, 2001, 64 min.
Director: Michel Van Zele
Documentary

SCREENINGS:
Tuesday to Sunday, 3PM. and 4PM.

PROA CINE presents a unique documentary that reveals the creative processes of Giacometti and in which the artist explains his artistic concerns through interviews and recordings in his studio.

In this film, Michel Van Zele looks into the sources of inspiration of Giacometti and his particular conception of the human figure, a matter in which Giacometti never stopped working. The documentary features testimonies of different characters who knew him, were his friends and sometimes were his models as Sabine Weiss, Balthus, Jacques Dupin, Roger Montandon, Jean Starobinski, Ernst Scheidegger, Jean Leymarie and Ernest Pignon-Ernest. -

Branden Joseph, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at Columbia University, talks with PROA TV on the links and the legacy of John Cage in contemporary art.

Joseph participated in the International Symposium John Cage that brought together leading researchers and experts to discuss the composer’s work. The meeting was organized by Teatro Colón / Colón Contemporáneo and Fundación Proa.

In an interview with Pablo Gianera for PROA TV, James Pritchett, the american expert and personal friend of John Cage,  develops some quotes from his book “The music of John Cage” and talks about the famous silent piece that marked a milestone in contemporary music.

The interview took place in the framework of the International Symposium John Cage that Fundación Proa and Teatro Colón / Colón Contemporáneo organized  as part of the tribute to the great musician of the twentieth century on the centenary of his birth.

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In the centennial of John Cage’s birth, Fundación Proa participates in the celebrations organized in Buenos Aires by Teatro Colón / Colón Contemporáneo: The Tribute to John Cage in the 100th anniversary of his birth, coordinated by Martín Bauer, presents concerts, conferences, screenings and talks with the presence of international guests.

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From September 11 to 22, several activities will take place at Proa’s Auditorium as part of the Tribute’s programming: The International Symposium John Cage invites personalities from the arts and theory fields . The Concert 4’33′‘ presents the most celebrated work of John Cage, performed in this opportunity by Lucas Urdampilleta. And Proa Cine programs a series of documentaries and experimental films.

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Activities at Proa’s Auditorium:

International Symposium John Cage
Thursday, September 13 & Friday, September 14, 2012

Special guests: Branden W. Joseph, Henning Lohner, James Pritchett, Luis Chitarroni, Pablo Gianera, Hugo Petruschansky
Coordinator: Pablo Gianera

For further information and enrollment: coloquio@proa.org

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Concert: 4’33” Music for solo piano
Saturday, September 22

Sixty years after its release, Fundación Proa presents the most emblematic work of John Cage: 4’33´´. Performed by Lucas Urdampilleta.

Aug. 29. 1952 by John Cage
For piano by Christian Wolf
Extensions #3 by Morton Feldman
3 pieces for piano by Earle Brown
Premier Sonata by Pierre Boulez
5 Intermissions by Morton Feldman
For prepared piano by Christian Wolf
4 pieces by John Cage
4’33”
30”
2’23”
1’40”
The Banshee by Henry Cowell

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Proa Cine. Film program:
September 15-22

“John Cage” Dir. Klaus Wildenhahn (1965)
“one11 and 103″ Dir. Henning Lohner (1991-92)
“Chessfilnoise” Dir. Henning Lohner (1988)
“Cage/Cunningham” Dir. Elliot Caplan (1991)
“The Collaborators – Cage, Cunningham, Rauschenberg” Produced by KETC-TV (1987)
“Variations V” Dir. Stan Van der Beek (1965)

* The programming is subject to modification.
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Thanks to: John Cage Trust / Mode Records
In collaboration with: Teatro Colón/Colón Contemporáneo
Supported by: Tenaris