SCREENING: SHADOW PLAY
The Third Man
Directed by Carol Reed
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 8 PM
Outdoor screening
EMPAC, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
FREE
Shrouded in darkness, Carol Reed's classic film noir, The Third Man, follows pulp novelist Holly Martin as he unravels the circumstances behind his friend's death in Vienna, a situation that increasingly resembles a plot from one of his own novels. Starring Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles, The Third Man won an Academy Award in 1951 for Robert Krasker's lush cinematography. Hailed as one of the greatest British films ever made, The Third Man combines wit with a sense of existential crisis, which is visually reinforced through the film's dramatic use of light and shadow.
+ trailer: http://youtu.be/2wlKhPtq5J8
One of the English cinema's best craftsmen, Sir Carol Reed distinguished his career from contemporaries Luis Buñuel and Alfred Hitchcock by considering himself an entertainer, not an artist. Director Michael Powell observed that Reed "could put a film together like a watchmaker puts together a watch." Reed was prolific over his 40-year career, and is best known for Odd Man Out (1947), The Fallen Idol (1948), The Third Man (1949), and Oliver! (1968). He won the Palme d'Or at Cannes for The Third Man in 1949 and the 1968 Academy Award for Best Director for Oliver!
Shadow Play is a series of films that tread nimbly between reality and illusion, acknowledging the artificial nature of cinema. Referencing the tradition of shadow puppetry, the origins of cinema in phantasmagoria, and Plato's "Allegory of the Cave," each film draws on the metaphors of light as reality and shadow as artifice.
In Plato's The Republic, the allegory of the cave illustrates the difference between truth and illusion. Many writers have noted that "Allegory of the Cave" (written c. 360 BCE) bears great resemblance to the contemporary movie theater.
This event is free and open to the public. In the case of inclement weather, the free screening will move indoors to the Theater.
Evelyn's Café will open at 7 PM with a full menu of meals, snacks, and beverages as well as a selection of wines. Service continues during the event. Parking is available in the Rensselaer parking lot on College Avenue.
In Plato's The Republic, the allegory of the cave illustrates the difference between truth and illusion. Many writers have noted that "Allegory of the Cave" (written c. 360 BCE) bears great resemblance to the contemporary movie theater.
This event is free and open to the public. In the case of inclement weather, the free screening will move indoors to the Theater.
Evelyn's Café will open at 7 PM with a full menu of meals, snacks, and beverages as well as a selection of wines. Service continues during the event. Parking is available in the Rensselaer parking lot on College Avenue.
More information can be found on the EMPAC website: empac.rpi.edu. Questions? Call the EMPAC Box Office: 518.276.3921.
EMPAC 2012-2013 presentations, residencies, and commissions are made possible by continuous support from the Jaffe Fund for Experimental Media and Performing Arts. Additional project support by the National Endowment for the Arts; the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; the New York State Council for the Arts; Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation with support from the National Endowment for the Arts; Arts Council Norway, Fond for Lyd og Bilde, and Fond for Utøvende Kunstner.
The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street
Troy, NY 12180
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street
Troy, NY 12180
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