SARATOGA SPRINGS —The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College announces Framing the Flesh, a series of four films shown over three nights on March 28, April 4, and April 18 that explore our relationship with our bodies and unconventional bodily alterations.
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Abject Anatomy, the screening series is the capstone project by Piper Ingels ’24, the 2023-24 Meg Reitman Jacobs ’63 Endowed Intern at the Tang.
Framing the Flesh screenings are:
March 28, 7:30 p.m.: Crimes of the Future (2022): Directed by David Cronenberg; starring Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, and Kristen Stewart.
April 4, 6 p.m.: Double Feature - Eyes Without a Face (1960), Directed by Georges Franju; starring Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Juliette Mayniel; Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989), Directed by Shin’ya Tsukamoto; starring Tomorô Taguchi, Kei Fujiwara, and Nobu Kanaoka.
April 18, 6 pm: birth/rebirth (2023): Directed by Laura Moss; starring Marin Ireland, Judy Reyes, and A.J. Lister.
Note, the films contain material of a highly sensitive nature including language, nudity, violence, gore, and disturbing content. The screenings are free and open to the public. For more information, contact the Visitors Services Desk at 518-580-8080 or visit the Tang website at tang.skidmore.edu.
The exhibition Abject Anatomy is on view at the Tang through April 21.
