
MoMA Glass Eye Pix Retrospective Roundup

Beck Underwood, Jack Fessenden; MoMA host and curator Josh Siegel; Fessenden minds the posters; director Kelly Reichardt; I Sell The Dead and Stake Land crew members Matthew Cryan, David Bell, Beck Underwood, Peter Phok, Brent Kunkle; Fessendens with Foxhole dp Collin Brazie, producer Adam Scherr; Foxhole Q&A with Jack Fessenden and host Josh Siegel; The House of the Devil director Ti West; An Exquisite Task director Beck Underwood and Most Beautiful Island director Ana Asensio (with son); I Can See You dp Gordon Arkenberg; Automatons creator James Felix McKenney; No Telling dp David Shaw; Like Me director Robert Mockler and producer James Belfer; Liberty Kid director Ilya Chaiken, with actors Kareem Savinion, Anny Mariano; The Comedy director Rick Alverson.
Thanks to the artists and audiences that came to the shows…
and thanks to The Museum of Modern Art for hosting
FOXHOLE poster by Graham Humphreys revealed!

Samuel Goldwyn releases official FOXHOLE poster
by long-time Glass Eye Pix collaborator Graham Humphreys
(Tales From Beyond The Pale Season 3; DEPRAVED retro poster, Sudden Storm Wendigo illustration)
visit www.grahamhumphreys.com
Samuel Goldwyn’s FOXHOLE Trailer drops at ComingSoon.net
SPACE
“Unfolding over the span of 36 hours in three separate wars — The American Civil War, World War I, and Iraq — Foxhole follows five soldiers confined in a foxhole as they grapple with morality, futility, and an increasingly volatile combat situation,” says the official synopsis.
Today at MoMA: THE COMEDY and LIBERTY KID

4:30
THE COMEDY (2012, Rick Alverson, 94 min. Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim) On the cusp of inheriting his father’s estate, Swanson is a man with unlimited options… As Swanson grows restless of the safety a sheltered life offers him, he tests the limits of acceptable behavior, pushing the envelope in every way he can.

7:00
LIBERTY KID (2007, Ilya Chaiken, 92min. Al Thompson, Kareem Savinon) Two young friends struggle to survive after losing their jobs at the Statue of Liberty tourist site due to 9/11. Derrick, courted by Army recruiters, seeks a life outside of their Brooklyn neighborhood, while Tico leads him on a detour into the street-hustling life.
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Today at MoMA: I SELL THE DEAD

4:30
TALES FROM BEYOND THE PALE SEASON 3 TEASER (2015, Beck Underwood, 1:13 mins) Animated Teaser for the Glass Eye Pix Radio Series by Glenn McQuaid and Larry Fessenden
I SELL THE DEAD (2008, Glenn McQuaid. Dominic Monaghan, Larry Fessenden, Ron Perlman, Angus Scrimm) 19th century justice has finally caught up to grave robbers Arthur Blake and Willie Grimes. With the specter of the guillotine looming over him, young Blake confides in visiting clergyman Father Duffy, recounting fifteen years of adventure in the resurrection trade. The colorful and peculiar history of Grimes and Blake is one filled with adventure, horror, and vicious rivalries that threaten to put all involved in the very graves they’re trying to pilfer. Never Trust A Corpse.
“WIND” by Tom Laverack in new music video by Fessenden
Long-time collaborator Tom Laverack writes and performs “WIND”
edit by Fessenden in tribute to the Easter screening of DEPRAVED at MoMA
as the Glass Eye Pix Retrospective winds down
Today at MoMA: THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL and DEPRAVED

2:00
THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL (2009, Ti West 95 mins. Jocelin Donahue, Tom Noonan, Mary Woronov, Greta Gerwig, AJ Bowen, Dee Wallace) College girl Samantha responds to an ad for a babysitter to land some quick cash for a new apartment. Her skeptical pal Megan drives her deep into the woods and deposits her at a big, creaky Victorian house lorded over by a creepy old couple with big plans to celebrate the night’s rare lunar eclipse.

4:30
NEXUS (2014, Larry Fessenden, 5 minutes. Michael Vincent, Lauren Molina, Aaron Beall) On Halloween in NYC, a man hurries to meet his girlfriend for a costume party while a cabbie speeds through the street with his attention on the missing letter of his crossword puzzle.
DEPRAVED (2019, Larry Fessenden; 112 mins. David Call, Joshua Leonard, Alex Breaux, Ana Kayne, Maria Dizzia, Chloe Levine, Owen Campbell and Addison Timlin) Henry, a field surgeon suffering from PTSD after combat in the Middle East, creates a man out of body parts in a makeshift lab in Gowanus, Brooklyn. The creature he creates must navigate a strange new world and the rivalry between Henry and his conniving collaborator Polidori.
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Today at MoMA: RIVER OF GRASS, MOST BEAUTIFUL ISLAND and THE COMEDY

2:00
RIVER OF GRASS (1994 Kelly Reichardt 81 mins; Lisa Bowman, Larry Fessenden, Dick Russell, Stan Kaplan, Michael Buscemi) A drowsy, sun-drunk road movie in which a would-be Bonnie and Clyde never really commit a crime, fall in love, or even hit the road.

4:30
AN EXQUISITE TASK (2020, Beck Underwood, 5 min) A vintage doll, a mysterious barn spirit and some mischievous farm critters come together in this stop-motion short about motherhood, creativity, and letting go.
MOST BEAUTIFUL ISLAND (2016 Ana Asensio, 91 mins. Ana Asensio, Natasha Romanova, Brett Azar, Caprice Benedetti, Nick Tucci, Larry Fessenden) One harrowing day in the life of Luciana, a young immigrant woman struggling to make ends meet while striving to escape her past, who finds herself a central participant in a cruel game played for the perverse entertainment of a privileged few.

6:30
THE COMEDY (2012, Rick Alverson, 94 min. Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim) On the cusp of inheriting his father’s estate, Swanson is a man with unlimited options… As Swanson grows restless of the safety a sheltered life offers him, he tests the limits of acceptable behavior, pushing the envelope in every way he can.
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