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Fri, Jan 22, 2010
5:00 PM – 9:00 PM

New Museum Theater (directions)

Urs Fischer’s Film Selections

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Film / Video

In conjunction with "Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty," Urs Fischer selects a group of films to be screened in the New Museum theater. 

5 p.m.: Cosmonaut Polyakov

7 p.m.: Up the Yangtze

Cosmonaut Polyakov(2007)
110 min, Russian language with English subtitles
Dir. Dana Ranga
This highly acclaimed 2007 documentary directed by Dana Ranga (East Side Story, and Story). Cosmonaut Polyakov follows Russian cosmonaut Valery Polyakov, who holds the record of the longest trip into space: one year and two months. For the first time he speaks publicly about the KGB, being in exile, and the struggle of space travel.

Up The Yangtze (2008)
Dir. Yung Chang
93 min, English, Mandarin, and Sichuan with English subtitles
A luxury cruise boat motors up the Yangtze—navigating the mythic waterway known in China simply as "The River." The Yangtze is about to be transformed by the biggest hydroelectric dam in history. At the river's edge a young woman says goodbye to her family as the floodwaters rise towards their small homestead. The Three Gorges Dam—symbol of the Chinese economic miracle—provides the epic backdrop for this documentary on life in modern China. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival.

Banner image: Still from Cosmonaut Polyakov (2007).

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Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty is made possible with generous support from the Brant Foundation; the Burger Collection, Hong Kong; the Steven A. and Alexandra M. Cohen Foundation, Inc.; Dakis Joannou; Amalia Dayan and Adam Lindemann; Eugenio López; the LUMA Foundation; the Peter Morton Foundation; François Pinault; the Ringier Collection; Tony Salame; and the Teiger Foundation. Additional support provided by the National Endowment for the Arts and Pro Helvetia, Swiss Arts Council, and the Consulate General of Switzerland in New York.

Support for the accompanying publication Urs Fischer: Shovel in a Hole is provided by the J. McSweeney and G. Mills Publications Fund at the New Museum and Mr Keet, LLC, New York.

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Urs Fischer

Born 1973, Zurich, Switzerland/Lives and works New York City

Urs Fischer was born in Zurich in 1973, and currently lives and works in New York City. He was included in Unmonumental, the New Museum’s inaugural exhibition for the SANAA-designed building in 2007. Fischer’s work has been the subject of several solo exhibitions in European museums, including the Kunsthaus in Zurich; the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam; and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. His work was also included in the 2006 Whitney Biennial.