From the Museum of the Moving Image

Professor and writer Tom Gunning has changed the way we think about film history and the future of the medium, profoundly influencing generations of scholars, artists, and film lovers. He is best known for his seminal 1986 essay “The Cinema of Attractions,” which drew connections between films from the dawn of the medium around 1895 and the contemporary avant-garde, finding modernity and invention in both eras, and identifying spectacle as the most potent source of cinema’s power.

The publication of his new collection, The Attractions of the Moving Image: Essays on History, Theory, and the Avant-Garde, edited by Daniel Morgan for the University of Chicago Press, is cause for celebration. The Museum of the Moving Image is pleased to have Gunning and Morgan present for a weekend of screenings and discussions. (Gunning has curated retrospectives of Frank Borzage and Fritz Lang for the Museum and has written essays for MoMI retrospectives about Ken Jacobs and Ernie Gehr.)

The events at MoMI will be followed by an evening with Gunning and Ernie Gehr at Anthology Film Archives on April 28, and a program at Light Industry on April 29.

More details here.

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