Agnieszka Kurant's Cutaways Screening and Conversation

A screening of the short film, Cutaways, commissioned by SculptureCenter for Agnieszka Kurant's solo show, exformation, currently on view through January 27, 2014. Cutaways is based on characters that were originally scripted and shot but were edited out of the final version of the films. Produced in collaboration with the renowned film editor, Walter Murch (Apocalypse Now, The English Patient, The Conversation), the film stars Dick Miller, Charlotte Rampling and Abe Vigoda in their original roles from Pulp Fiction, Vanishing Point and The Conversation, respectively. The film stages a meeting of these phantom characters to create a new narrative based on surplus content and labor. Following the screening, Mary Ceruti (SculptureCenter Executive Director and Chief Curator) will moderate a conversation with the artist, Manuel Cirauqui (Associate Curator, Dia Center for the Arts and co-writer of the Cutaways script and Dan Fox, US Editor, Frieze Magazine.