Possible Models:
An Evening with Jenny Perlin
The Museum of Modern Art, New York | MediaScope
Monday, April 30, 2007 | 6:30pm
Jenny Perlin (New York) works both with and against the documentary tradition, using film, video, photography, and drawing to emphasize issues of truth, misunderstanding, and personal history. Many of her 16mm films—including Possible Models (2004), Schumann (2002), and The United States in a Chaotic World (2003)—use hand-drawn stop-motion techniques in their exploration of contemporary cultural phenomena such as the rise of phobias, the history of the shopping mall, and the effects of the Patriot Act on immigrants in the United States. Perlin's nonfiction film Perseverance & How to Develop It (2003) treats the relationship between industry and self-help initiatives in the U.S. These works, like much of Perlin's practice, look closely at how the sweeping statements of history are reflected in specific details of human experience. The evening includes screenings of Perlin's films and animations and the premiere of a new work from the Perlin Papers series. Program approx. 90 min.
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