Wednesday | May 3, 2000 9:00 pm

Another Girl, Another Planet

Screening on Film

Directed by Michael Almereyda.
With Elina Löwensohn, Mary Ward, Nic Ratner.
US, 1992, 16mm, black & white, 56 min.

The gritty reality and strange beauty of this East Village story, also shot in Pixelvision, charts the contrasting romantic fortunes of two men who live on different floors in the same loft complex, a womanizer and his sage friend. While Almereyda sweetly jabs at the men’s romantic posturings, he pays tribute to the wit and impulsiveness of the spirited female characters. The film’s singular visual style, together with its superb use of popular music (Slim Harpo, Nick Cave, the Gypsy Kings, among others) earned it kudos from the National Society of Film Critics, the San Francisco International Film Festival, and the USA Film Festival.

PRECEDED BY

The Rocking Horse Winner

Directed by Michael Almereyda.
With Jesse Forrestal, Paula Malcomson, Eric Stoltz.
US, 1997, 16mm, black & white, 23 min.

The toy Pixelvision video camera with which The Rocking Horse Winner was shot evocatively renders the fragile emotional and physical world of D. H. Lawrence’s short story about a precocious child who has a gift for picking winning ponies at the track. “The camera provides a heightened way of seeing,” Almereyda has stated. “I knew going in that certain repeated frantic actions—the kid riding the horse, the uncle concocting martinis, horses pounding the track—would register impressively in pixel.” The resulting work is a moody study of American mores.