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See A Tribute to George C. Stoney at the Museum of Modern Art in New York on February 27-28, 2009. George will be there.

Friday, February 27, 2009, 8:00 pm:
Flesh in Ecstasy: Gaston Lachaise and the Woman He Loved. 2008. USA. Directed by George Stoney, David Bagnall. Taking as its focus Gaston Lachaise's striking Standing Woman statue, the film explores the artist's relationship with his model for the work: his wife and muse, Isabel Dutaud Nagel. The film includes quotes from the sculptor's passionate love letters and scenes of the statue's recent recasting at the Modern Art Factory in Brooklyn, NY. In English, French; English subtitles. 21 min.

Race or Reason: The Bellport Dilemma. 2003. USA. Directed by Betty Puleston, Lynne Jackson. Produced by George Stoney. In 1969-70, when race riots were sweeping across America, a series of ugly confrontations at a racially mixed high school rocked the small Long Island town of Bellport. Local resident Betty Puleston opened her home as a meeting place where black, white, and Latino students could air their grievances, providing them with a pair of video cameras to facilitate dialogue. Thirty years later, the former students regrouped to view the tapes. Courtesy Filmmakers Library. 59 min.

Saturday, February 28, 2009, 5:45 pm:
The Uprising of 1934. 1995. USA. Directed by George Stoney, Judith Helfand, Susanne Rostock. Largely forgotten today, the General Textile Strike is a stirring chapter in the history of labor movements in the American South. In 1934, textile workers took the lead in a nationwide strike in which half a million people walked off their jobs. These new union members successfully stood up for their rights and became a force to be reckoned with until management crushed the strike, mill workers were murdered, and thousands more were blacklisted. Courtesy Icarus Films. 90 min.

Saturday, February 28, 2009, 7:45 pm:
How the Myth Was Made. 1978. USA. Directed by George Stoney. A film about the making of a film: Robert Flaherty's 1934 classic Man of Aran, which chronicled fishermen's struggle for existence on Ireland's bleak Aran Islands. Stoney revisits the islands and interviews surviving locals about their memories of the original film and their reactions to making this one. Includes excerpts from the original documentary. Courtesy Circulating Film and Video Library, MoMA. 60 min.

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Location Name:  MoMA, New York

Address: 11 West 53 Street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues, New York

Tel: 212.708.9400