Cinema for the Unemployed

Cinema for the Unemployed



NE WORKING WEEK (Monday - Friday, 9am - 5pm) of free public screenings. THE PROJECT was originally produced for the Momentum Art Festival, Norway, May 1998, and took place at Tivoli Amfi, a derelict cinema theater in Moss. The local unemployment service’s support of the event made possible the production of the poster above and the ‘Disaster Guide’, a pamphlet serving as the project’s program and documentary residue. It included new commissioned texts by Jim Hoberman, Mara Mahia, Ken Hollings and Catherine Bernard as well as promotional material about the (un)employment service. SEE Disaster Guide. THE FILMS: The Towering Inferno (’74), Hurricane (’79), Meteor (’79), Airport ’70, Airport ’79: The Concorde, The Day After (’83), Avalanche (’78), Daylight (’96), Twister (’96), Meteor (’79), Volcano (’97), Earthquake (’74), The Poseidon Adventure (’72), Independence Day (’96), When Time Ran Out (’80). Shown courtesy of United International Pictures, Hollywood Classics and Twentieth Century Fox, London.


texts on Cinema for the Unemployed: Bradley, Will, Life and Times, Frieze, Issue 75, 2003 Williams, Gilda, Aleksandra mir from A to Z, Art Monthly, no 266, 2003 Griffin,Tim, Openings: Aleksandra Mir, Artforum, Feb, 2003. Larsen, Lars Bang, Aleksandra Mir in Moss and Roskilde, Casco Issues , Utrecht, #6,1999. Sandberg, Lotte, On going beyond the local contexts, SIKSI — The Nordic Art Review , Stockholm, #3-4, 1998 KulÂs, Guri, Disastercinema for Unemployed, Interview with Aleksandra Mir, Klassekampen, Oslo, 23 May, 1998. Hannula, Mika, Never mind the locals, SIKSI — The Nordic Art Review , Stockholm, #2, 1998. Kroksnes, Andrea, Pakkusí, Springer, Berlin, #2, 1998.