Lightbox Film Center

Lightbox Film Center presents Double Vision: Jean Vigo/Ron Rice. Double Vision is a dual retrospective looking at the films of Jean Vigo and Ron Rice, two filmmakers who—despite living at different times and working in different parts of the world—are tied together with an invisible thread.

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2/1/2019—2/2/2019

Double Vision: Jean Vigo/Ron Rice

Double Vision is a dual retrospective looking at the films of Jean Vigo and Ron Rice, two filmmakers who—despite living at different times and working in different parts of the world—are tied together...

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The opening program of Double Vision juxtaposes two films each by Jean Vigo and Ron Rice: À propos de Nice, Senseless, Taris, and Chumlum. Presented by Lightbox Film Center.
Series Double Vision: Jean Vigo/Ron Rice

Friday 2/1/2019 | 7:00

Double Vision: Short Films

Shorts program, running time 89 min.

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An unexpected comparison between Jean Vigo and Ron Rice's work can be found in Vigo’s Zero de Conduite (1933) and Rice’s The Flower Thief (1960), both of the filmmakers most notorious works in their lifetime. Part of Double Vision: Jean Vigo/Ron Rice at Lightbox Film Center.
Series Double Vision: Jean Vigo/Ron Rice

Saturday 2/2/2019 | 2:00

Zero for Conduct & The Flower Thief

Jean Vigo, France, 1933, 44 min., French w/ English subtitles, & Ron Rice, US, 1960, 16mm, 58 min.

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Jean Vigo’s final film was also his most ambitious. Double Vision: Jean Vigo/Ron Rice at Lightbox Film Center.
Series Double Vision: Jean Vigo/Ron Rice

Saturday 2/2/2019 | 5:00

L’Atalante

Jean Vigo, France, 1934, 89 min., French w/ English subtitles

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