Originally produced for the Momentum Art Festival (Norway, May 1998) Aleksandra Mir's "Cinema For The Unemployed" took place at Tivoli Amfi, a derelict cinema theater in Moss. The local unemployment service's support of the event made possible the production of a poster above and the 'Disaster Guide', a pamphlet serving as the project's program / and documentary residue. It included new commissioned texts by Jim Hoberman, Mara Mahia, Ken Hollings and Catherine Bernard as well as promotional material about the (un)employment service.
ONE WORKING WEEK (Monday -Friday, 9am -5pm) of free public screenings.
THE FILMS: The Towering Inferno (74), Hurricane ('79), Meteor ('79), Airport '70, Airport '79: The Concorde, The Day After ('83), Avalanche ('78), Daylight ('96), Twister ('96), Meteor ('79), Volcano ('97), Earthquake ('74), The Poseidon Adventure ('72), Independence Day ('96), When Time Ran Out ('80) were shown courtesy of United International Pictures, Hollywood Classics and Twentieth Century Fox, London.
http://www.aleksandramir.info/projects/cinema/cinema.html
Posted by delpesco at October 14, 2004 09:54 AM