Vaginal Davis presents Rising Stars, Falling Stars

In 1898 the technology lover Edwin S. Porter began working for the Edison Company as a cameraman. While people in Europe experimented with the language of film, he developed the possibilities of “realistic film narration”: A man who has assaulted his wife is tarred and feathered, an eagle grabs the baby of a nuclear family on a weekend excursion, a bear shoots the parent bears to steal its little one, a penniless ex-convict saves the child of a rich family to then abduct it. Silent-movie expert Vaginal Davis guides us through a family program accompanied by the musicians John and Tim Blue. (May 30)