For the second of their three-part residency, members of OJO will pack into two small cars, where they will make music utilizing objects and materials in the cars' interiors and by playing instruments powered by the cars' batteries. Audience members will be invited to assist with the composition. The cars will dance, glide, and narrowly miss each other in a choreographed game of chicken. The finale should be explosive!

07.02.09 7:00 PM
MOCA GRAND AVENUE

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When you think of “America,” what is the first image that comes to mind? For two years, Swiss-born photographer Robert Frank traveled by car throughout the United States and took more than 20,000 photographs, 83 which he carefully selected and arranged for his landmark 1959 book, The Americans. Take a guided tour of From the Permanent Collection: Robert Frank's “The Americans”. Then, meet artist Patrick Miller, who will lead a photography project inspired by The Americans.

07.05.09 1:00 PM
MOCA GRAND AVENUE

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MOCA and Cinefamily present an evening of early films by Robert Frank. Pull My Daisy (1959, b/w, 28 min.), directed by Frank and Alfred Leslie from a script by Jack Kerouac, is a classic work of avant-garde cinema, revolving around a group of poets (Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, and Gregory Corso) who question a bishop (Richard Bellamy) and his mother (Alice Neel) about art, poetry, and everyday life. Me and My Brother (1965–68, re-edited 1997, b/w and color, 91 min.), Frank's first feature-length film, blends documentary footage of Ginsberg and Orlovsky with fictional constructs as it explores the inner and outer worlds of Julius Orlovsky, a catatonic who silently observes the world around him. The film was re-edited in 1997 to mark Ginsberg's passing.

07.18.09 7:30 PM
Cinefamily at Silent Movie Theatre

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