H.D. and Jean Epstein: Queer Modernism Spectatorship and The Specimen
Fri, May 16, 2014
7:00 PM
Join us at the Morbid Anatomy Museum in Brooklyn to consider two queer film theorists alongside one another: the French filmmaker Jean Epstein, and the Anglo-American poet H.D. Both wrote prolifically about cinema in the interwar period, and both were filmmakers as well as critics. Both privileged the visual and tactile sensations that cinema offers its viewer. And, perhaps most interestingly, both evince a keen interest in the idea of cinema—as well as the cinematic spectator—as a specimen: a body subjected to a probing, scientific gaze.
The Morbid Anatomy Museum and Library
424A Third Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11215
