Film Screening: Aldo Tambellini: Reflections

About This Event

Join Professor Bob Harris who will be hosting a  screening of Aldo Tambellini: Reflections at MFA Boston on Oct 4.

Museum of Fine Arts Boston (Harry & Mildred Remis Auditorium, 161) 465 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115.

Aldo Tambellini (1930–2020) was a trailblazing artist and activist known for his radical experiments in light, film, video, and performance. Curated by Robert Harris, this screening brings together four seminal works that span Tambellini’s decades-long career and capture his fusion of art, media, and social consciousness.

A pioneer of “electromedia” and a key figure in early video art and expanded cinema, Tambellini believed art should serve as “the vital energy of society,” not a commodity. His practice—rooted in the metaphysical and political possibilities of blackness—continues to resonate as both formally daring and socially urgent.

Join us after the screening for a Q and A with Harris, a filmmaker, educator, and former curator whose work spans decades of experimental and ethnographic film. Currently a professor at Fitchburg State University, he has held roles at Anthology Film Archives, MoMA PS1, and the New York State Summer School of the Arts. He has collaborated with Nam June Paik, Shigeko Kubota, and Tambellini himself, and his films have screened internationally.

This is part of the RPM festival, and we hope you can make it into Boston to attend!