Hello all, our theme this week is cats, featuring Chris Marker's "The Case of the Grinning Cat" (2004, 58m) and work by Samuel Beckett.
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In November 2001, mercurial film-essayist Marker became intrigued, as did many other Parisians, by the sudden appearance of alluring portraits of grinning yellow cats on buildings, Metro walls and other public surfaces. Marker's cinematic efforts to document the mysterious materializations of this charming feline throughout Paris are a recurring theme of this film, which, like much of Marker’s work, wrenches the political from the mundane while honoring humanity’s inventiveness in the everyday. The feature will be preceded by “Film” (1965, 22m), conceived by Samuel Beckett and starring Buster Keaton.
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The underground film series is sponsored by Indiana University's Department of Communication and Culture. All screenings are on alternating Fridays at 7 p.m. in room 251 of the Radio-TV building on the IU campus. All screenings are free and open to the public, and free parking is ample in the lot adjacent to the building, provided you clearly display an underground flyer on the dashboard of your vehicle.
