16mm Film: 16mm Film Screening - Jean Cocteau's 'The Blood of a Poet'

Told in four episodes - an unnamed artist is transported through a mirror into another dimension, where he travels through various bizarre scenarios.

“The Blood of a Poet carries a historiography spanning decades that includes myriad interpretations—iconographic, psychoanalytic, semiotic, structuralist, and so on—and also like those works, it’s possible that it merely exists outside interpretation altogether.” — Henri de Corinth, for Mubi

While no registration is required, you may email lillianweber@nypl.org if you wish to receive a reminder a day before/day of the screening, as well as notifications about possible postponements or cancellations.

This screening will take place in-person at the Seward Park branch.

Parental guidance under 18.