For his residency at MAD, Brooklyn based artist Jesse Hlebo presents a series of free screenings that explore the continuous fluctuation found in the relationship between spontaneity and institutional facilitation.  For his cinema program Burning Celluloid Hlebo explores the use of cinema in education, and the theater as classroom.

The theatre is the classroom 
The screen is the blackboard 
The teacher has left, 
we’re all that we have

This week's lesson explores:

The Fire Within (Le feu follet)
1963, dir. Louis Malle
with Maurice Ronet, Jeanne Moreau, Alexandra Stewart

Louis Malle offers a stark and unsparing look at the depths of depression through Alain (Maurice Ronet), a recovering alcoholic writer who decides to put an end to his unbearable inner turmoil and kill himself -- but not before seeking out his old friends and lovers in Paris. An early masterstroke by the prolific Malle featuring the music of Erik Satie.