New Skin for the Old Ceremony screening at SFMOMA

Alex Da Corte’s video set to a track from Leonard Cohen’s 1974 Album screens June 21, 2012 at SFMOMA, Phillis Wat­tis The­ater, 7:00 p.m. (http://www NULL.sfmoma NULL.org/exhib_events/events/2081)

New Skin for the Old Cer­e­mony, Theo Angell, Peter Cof­fin, Weston Cur­rie, Alex Da Corte, Brent Green, Chris­t­ian Hol­stad, Syl­van and Lily Lanken, Lucky Drag­ons, Brett Milspaw, Kelly Sears, and Tina Tyrell, 2011, 35 min., video
In 2009 Per­forma, along with SFMOMA and Port­land Green Cul­tural Projects, com­mis­sioned 11 con­tem­po­rary film and video artists to pro­duce their own ren­der­ings of the orig­i­nal 11 parts. New Skin for the Old Cer­e­mony com­piles 11 short films, each set to a track from Leonard Cohen’s 1974 album of the same name.
Part of Films of Many Parts.
$5 gen­eral; free for SFMOMA mem­bers or with museum admis­sion (requires a free ticket, which can be picked up in the Haas Atrium).