Helene Kaplan

Growing Up Barnard

Daniella Kahane

Lisa Abelow Hedley, Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal

Are women’s colleges a dying breed? In the past forty years over 75% of women’s colleges have closed or merged with their male counterparts. What will or should become of them in the next fifty years? Compelled by her family’s four-generation legacy at Barnard College, Daniella Kahane (BC ’05) explores the relevance of women’s colleges today, specifically through understanding the history of Barnard College and the changing role of women during the twentieth century.

‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen

Michael Snow

Kevin Wenzel, Munro Ferguson

Described (rather cheekily) by director Michael Snow as a musical comedy, this deft probing of sound/image relationships is one of his wittiest, most entertaining and philosophically stimulating films. In his words, the film “derives its form and the nature of its possible effects from its being built from the inside, as it were, with the actual units of such a film, i.e. the frame and the recorded syllable. Thus its ‘dramatic’ element derives not only from a representation of what may involve us generally in life but from considerations of the nature of recorded speech in relation to moving light-images of people.’”

Pluto Version 1

Helene Kaplan

The ultimate Walt Disney dog marking time. The bigger the screen the better. Dream machine and time machine.

Untitled, Dalie and Stephie Film

Helene Kaplan

Dialogue by David Cohen. Used to be called AUDITIONS FOR DIALOGUE.

Conveyor Belt

Helene Kaplan

This is a film which I keep changing. It's a structural comedy starring people's garbage, shot in the Harpur college snack bar; indigestion yellow. The beginning of thinking and working in a particular way with image-sound/image-silence relationships. –H. K.

Rose and Seymour at Home In Queens

Helene Kaplan

Portrait of a family I lived with. They represent a large chunk of the past, ambiguous. A film in which the image serves as punctuation for the sound; the image is a tease. – H. K.

The Vestal Theatre

Helene Kaplan

THE VESTAL THEATRE is a documentary shot in the lobby of a movie theater from behind the candy counter. The camera was turned off only when it ran out of film. It was shot sync-sound fixed camera. The movie goers could see the camera clearly (no Allen-Funt cute). Like Monet's cathedral, this same image would never have been the same again. The image is composed of complex, multilayered planes of focus. And I love the way people ask for popcorn and tap their dollar bills. Film time and real time are the same.