Guggenheim Museum To Throw 24-hour Film Party This Week

UPPER EAST SIDE — A 24-hour film party — screening footage from an underground art scene party following 9/11 — is hitting the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum on Thursday.

The artist behind the exhibit party, called "Stamina," spent 24 hours with 9 cameras filming the gritty details of an underground art party she threw with her friends following September 11, 2001 — which was a time of intense partying to celebrate those who had survived the tragedy, according to artist Agathe Snow.

"It was celebrating life if you were living, so to speak," said Guggenheim spokeswoman Kristina Parker.

Paired with live music and a cash bar, the premier will feature Snow's footage of a 24-hour party she threw for her friends and fellow artists in a Lower Manhattan loft.

The footage, compiled almost a decade later, was filmed on Ann Street near Ground Zero, which was desolate back in 2005, according to Snow.

“On a Sunday evening in November, we put aside our budding adulthood for a full 24 hours, 9 cameras covering all the action, all the gritty details, the live music, the outfits, the changes, the kissing and the fights, all bathed in flashing, throbbing, pulsing technicolor," Snow said in a statement.

Snow, born in Corsica and who now lives on Long Island, was raised in the Lower East Side's artist scene and works within a range of medium, from film to sculpture, paint and text. Her work has been showcased in London, Paris, Amsterdam and Germany, among other places.

The film will be presented in the museum's rotunda, where musicians Donald Cumming, QTY, TV Baby, Onyx Collective, Wade and Friends and I.U.D. will perform as the film plays in the background.

The event is part of the Guggenheim's "Storylines" exhibition, which features narrative art that touches on subjects like race, gender, sexuality, history, and politics over the past decade.

Along with the bar, light refreshments will be available from 6 p.m. to 4 a.m., and breakfast and a juice bar will emerge from 4 to 8 a.m. on Friday.

Doors open at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 20.

Tickets at $25 per person, $18 for students and free for members. More information can be found on the Guggenheim's website.