Presentation of Chris Kraus' "Gravity and Grace"

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On May 5, 2011, at 7 p.m. in the kim? lecture room a presentation of Gravity and Grace, film by American writer and filmmaker Chris Kraus, will take place.

Gravity and Grace (1996) is a low budget experimental feature movie which Chris Kraus described, as an amateur intellectual's home video. The film tells the story of a despairing middle class Kiwi woman, Ceal Davis, who meets Thomas Armstrong, a charismatic mystic who believes in flying saucers. Ceal joins his group of followers at the Extraterrestrial Institute and is contacted by aliens who tell her that the world is about to end by flood. The group prepares to be rescued by flying saucers. When the flood and flying saucers do not eventuate the group convinces themselves that their actions have prevented the catastrophe.
A sub, or alternate, plot to the movie involves Gravity and Grace, two small time hustlers in Auckland ...

Gravity and Grace is the last movie the Los Angeles based author and filmmaker Chris Kraus realized. When today Chris Kraus seems to be mostly known for her writing, her filmography is not less striking. Till May 8 her experimental movies, produced during the time she spend in New York (1982 – 1992), are on view in the exhibition Valoda mākslā / Two Occasions. Fig. 7 - Konkrēti piemēri.

Before the screening Egija Inzule, the curator of the exhibition, will introduce the work of Chris Kraus and the movie Gravity and Grace.  

The language of the film is English. Free entrance.

More about Gravity and Grace and Chris Kraus - at kim? events section.

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