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Thursday, April 21, 1983, 8:00 pm

Simon Edery

The Doomed Pierrot & Recent Films

SAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE

800 Chestnut Street

San Francisco, CA, 94133

The filmmaker will be present. Film in Performance.

The films will continue on Friday, April 22nd.

Both nights will feature The Doomed Pierrot (1982), a dance-performance piece which combines the fantasy of movie screens with the reality of the stage. “A confused and tormented Pierrot moves through time and space responding to the movements of a group of dancers who seem to be inventing the thrusts and aches of human involvement.” —S.E.

Films screened will include: May 17, 1973 (1973), Lazarus (1976), Eloisa (1977), Johnny Lost His Gun (1982), and Changes (1982). 

Edery is currently teaching at the SF Art Institute