Rosa Barba Program 3: Till the Sun Rang Us Up

Film

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Jeanne Liotta. Still from Observando El Cielo. 2007. 16mm film (black and white, sound), 18 min.

“An image wanders through a space like the spreading of a rumor,” muses Rosa Barba. Spanning several decades of film and video art, this program echoes Barba’s attention to the instability of truth and transmission across various channels of technological and environmental media—from celestial field recordings and broadcast television news to found-footage films and the illusions of narrative cinema. Altogether, these works highlight Barba’s conception of film as a powerful yet anarchic messenger of human experience.

Illusions. 1983. USA. Directed by Julie Dash. 36 min.
Mourning Images. 1995. Lebanon. Directed by Akram Zaatari. Video (color, sound). 6 min.
Songs for Earth and Folk. 2013. USA. Directed by Cauleen Smith. Video (color, sound). 11 min.
Observando El Cielo. 2007. USA. Directed by Jeanne Liotta. 16mm film (black and white, sound). 18 min.
The Eye of Count Flickerstein. 1967. USA. Directed by Tony Conrad. 16mm film transferred to video (black and white, sound). 7 min.

Program approx. 77 min.

This film accompanies Carte Blanche: Rosa Barba.

Past events

Sat, May 17, 2025, 4:30 p.m.

MoMA, Floor T1, Theater 1

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1
Wed, May 14, 2025, 7:00 p.m.

MoMA, Floor T2, Theater 2

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2

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