Twice a week throughout the month of April, the Fine Arts Library will host a series of informal screenings of experimental film and video art from the UVA Library collection.

On Tuesday, April 1 in its ground-floor video niche, the Fine Arts Library will screen Man with a Movie Camera (1929), Dziga Vertov's silent, Soviet-era experimental documentary. Ostensibly documenting urban life in three cities--Moscow, Odessa, and Kiev--Vertov also arranged the film as a visual manifesto, shaping the emerging language of cinema itself.

This month, see Dziga Vertov’s germinal investigation of cinematic perspective, Man with a Movie Camera (1929); a selection of early experiments with perception from makers including Mary Ellen Bute, Alberto Cavalcanti, and James Broughton (1922-1954); Here Come the Videofreex (2015), with interviews and restored tapes from the radical film collective capturing their revolutionary use of film technology in the 1960s and 1970s, two films from Brazilian-born contemporary artist and filmmaker Ana Vaz that trace hybrid histories of colonialism; and Shirin (2008), an exploration of gendered spectatorship from acclaimed Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami.

Drop in and out as your schedule allows to see selections from a century of art of the moving image.