Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM to 4:30 PM
2220 Arts + Archives, Los Angeles
Mezzanine presents *The Short Films of Luc Moullet.* Five films, brand new restorations, screening as part of *Luc Moullet: Hardly Working, a Mezzanine retrospective*. ∆ *La Valse des médias* (1987, France, 27m) This typically clever work of cinematic sociology examines the modernization of public libraries in France and the rise of the media library. (Film at Lincoln Center) ~ *Le Fantome de Longstaff* (1996, France, 20m) This free adaptation of a short story by Henry James follows an ailing American woman who travels to Rome with a friend and encounters what appears to be the ghost of a man she knew years earlier. (Film at Lincoln Center) ~ *Le Ventre de l’Amérique* (1996, France, 25m) This signature documentary finds Moullet wishing to experience a United States beyond the usual fixation on New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco—and so he travels to Des Moines, Iowa, of all places. (Film at Lincoln Center) ~ *Le Litre de lait* (2006, France, 14m) In this foray into autobiography, a teenage boy is tasked with buying some milk from the wife of his mother’s lover. (Film at Lincoln Center) *~* *Less and Less / Toujours moins* (2010, France, 14m) The follow-up to *More and More* comically probes the sometimes convenient, sometimes baffling automation of modern life. (Film at Lincoln Center)