Courtesy of Ciné Pluto. Designed by Janet Kusmierski

Screening Room: CINÉ PLUTO Presents ‘A Bucket of Blood’ and Spooky Shorts 

Thu 31 October 2024
7 – 10 pm

New York, 18th Street

CINÉ PLUTO, a microcinema created by parents of artist Avery Singer, Greg Singer and Janet Kusmierski, first launched as an invite-only experience in the artist couple’s downtown New York City loft in 1998. 

For the second iteration of our new quarterly film series at Hauser & Wirth 18^th Street, the long-standing salon-style series returns with an evening of campy, bloody Halloween hilarity.

The evening will include Roger Corman’s feature ‘A Bucket of Blood,’ an assemblage of spooky short films screened on vintage View-Master, 16mm, 8mm and Super 8 projectors, and a new video installation by Janet Kusmierski with music by Calder Singer.

CINÉ PLUTO presents
‘A Bucket of Blood’ and Spooky Shorts  

VIEW-MASTER REELS
Batman

8MM FILM
50s Sci-fi with music

SUPER8
‘Skeleton Dance’ by Ub Iwerks
‘Techno-Cracked, Flip the Frog’ by Ub Iwerks

16MM FILM
Alfred Hitchcock Presents

FEATURE FILM
A BUCKET OF BLOOD (1959)
Directed by Roger Corman
1 hr 6 min

NEW VIDEO INSTALLATION
MASK (2024)
by Janet Kusmierski
with music by Calder Singer
10 min

Program includes music from a collection of film scores on CD, spanning a period from the 1940s to the 1990s featuring:

Bernard Herrmann
Angelo Daniel Badalamenti
Danny Elfman
Philip Glass
Oh, there are too many to enumerate….

Special thanks to Calder Singer for his contributions and ideas.

Attending CINÉ PLUTO is free and open to the public; however, due to limited space, reservations are required.

Click here to register. 

CINÉ PLUTO presents 'Cabeza de Vaca' and Old West Shorts at Hauser & Wirth 18th Street. Photo: Stephanie V. Augello

About Greg Singer
Artist and former projectionist at The Museum of Modern Art, Greg Singer, has been running CINÉ PLUTO out of his New York City loft since 1998. The salon style themed programing for an invited audience seats 9 to 12 guests. Past ‘Ciné Pluto’ screenings have presented...
Film Formats: Reg.8mm / Super8mm / 16mm / 35mm Slides / View-Master Reel Projection.
Video Formats: VHS / Blu-Ray / Standard DVD / 8mm Tape / iPhone Projection.
Audio Formats: Digital Media / LP / CD / Cassette Playback.

Singer has been painting since the late 1960s and has received his MFA from Yale University. He has shown widely throughout New York City.

About Janet Kusmierski 
Janet Kusmierski’s work is intuitive in figuration, color abstraction and happenstance. She has been painting for 50 years with occasional digital experiments in stop-motion or hand-drawn animations.

Currently, she has been drawing digitally on an iPad Pro as her sketchbook. These works evolve into paintings, paper prints, or time-lapsed/time-based animated abstract faces (viewed on an iPad screen, monitors or through a projector). Since 2023, she has focused solely on time-lapse abstract faces. The drawings are projected as an installation. Kusmierski’s video installation ‘Group Effort, 2023’ was recently acquired by the Shah Garg Foundation.

Janet and Greg often collaborate with their son Calder Singer who is an accomplished musician and composer.

About Calder Singer
Calder Kusmierski Singer is a composer (Oberlin ‘11), perfumer, visual artist, and poet. Calder has choreographed dance theater works with a focus on butoh, complete with original lighting & set design. He is vigorously curious, loves the natural world and is obsessed with the cosmos.