Tribute to Ivan Passer: A Boring Afternoon & Intimate Lighting

[1st Floor] Screening of two films by the recently deceased Czech-American film director Ivan Passer, a leading figure of the Czech new wave and a close friend and collaborator of the late Milos Forman.

The film anecdote “A Boring Afternoon” (1964, running time 14 min), based on a story by Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal, captures an ordinary, dull Sunday afternoon in a suburban pub. The film was screened at the XIV. International Film Week in Mannheim in 1965 and won the Golden Ducat in the short films category.

“Intimate Lighting” (1965, running time 71 min) is Passer’s only feature film of the Czechoslovak New Wave of the 1960s. In this peculiar sad comedy two schoolmates meet in a small town after ten years: one is a member of a regional symphony orchestra, the other dragged it to the director of a city music school, building a family house and playing at funerals. The film was digitally restored in 2016.

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Free and open to the public. Seats are limited, on first-come, first-served basis. RSVP online through Eventbrite.

This event is organized by Czech Center New York.

From the Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo.