THE RAPE OF THE SABINE WOMEN
THEY CALL IT LOVE, I CALL IT MADNESS
Creative Time Presents The U.S. Premiere and Exclusive NY Screening of EVE SUSSMAN AND THE RUFUS CORPORATION’S VIDEO MUSICAL THE RAPE OF THE SABINE WOMEN with an Original Score by Jonathan Bepler
"This visually stunning reinterpretation riffs on the Roman myth of abduction and intervention that resulted in Romulus’s founding of Rome. Inspired by Jacques-Louis David’s 1799 painting, this version is updated to the idealist 1960s, with Romans recast as G-men, the Sabines as butchers’ daughters, and the heyday of Rome allegorically implied in an affluent international-style summer house. While the myth traces the birth of a society, the film exposes the loneliness and desire that destroys the perfectly manicured utopia. “Clothes, dignity and inhibition are all shed in an epic battle that Sussman and choreographer Claudia De Serpa Soares sought to lace with the drama of ‘moving pictures’ ” - Nick Stillman, Art Review
1 WEEK ONLY: FEB 22 – FEB 27
Free daily screenings 2pm, 6pm, 9:45 pm
The IFC Center (323 6th Ave @ West 3rd St)
