D.A. Pennebaker’s and Mark Woodcock’s Two American Audiences
Tuesday, December 17, 2019, Reception @ 6:30pm, Film @ 7pm
Macauley Honors College
35 W. 67th Street (bet CPW and Columbus)

Join us on Tuesday, December 17 as the New York Film and Video Council celebrates the life of D.A. Pennebaker and Godard’s December birthday (89!) with the rarely-seen Two American Audiences, a film Penny made in 1968 with NYFVC member Mark Woodcock.

In the spring of 1968, Godard traveled to the U.S. to promote La Chinoise (distributed by Leacock-Pennebaker) and make 1pm with Penny and Ricky.   As part of the promotion, Godard spoke to a group of NYU film students about his cinematic ideas, a conversation which the distributors filmed and Mark Woodcock turned into Two American Audiences.   The 40min film, paired with Godard’s longer A Movie Like Any Other, premiered in a now-infamous screening in late December 1968, where an audience of 1000, after voting on which half of the film to play first, booed and hissed and ultimately largely walked out, complaining they could not understand the translation.   Contemporary reports suggest the audience was much more appreciative of Two American Audiences.

What:  Two American Audiences
When: Tuesday, December 17, Reception @ 6:30pm, Films  @7pm
Where: Macauley Honors College, 35 W. 67th Street (the former Makor building)
RSVPs:  Free and Open to All.  Please RSVP to the Eventbrite to let us know you are coming.