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Tuesday, Jun 21, 1988
7:30pm
Films by Peter Hutton, Lewis Klahr, David Rimmer, Lee Sokol & Larry Gottheim
Landscape (For Manon) : "Part one of a series of landscape portraits from the region of the Hudson River Valley near the filmmaker's home in Annandale, N.Y." (Peter Hutton). Peter Hutton's quiet, carefully composed black and white contemplations of light, scale and motion recall 19th Century romanticism. One is tempted to imbue his aesthetic landscapes with a range of subtle emotions, to see passion reflected in nature's theatricality. (A film by Peter Hutton: 1986-87, 14 mins, B&W, Silent, 16mm, Print from Canyon Cinema). Her Fragrant Emulsion: "...an obsessional homage to '60s film actress Mimsy Farmer" (Lewis Klahr), constructed from cut strips of super 8 film collaged, rephotographed and blown up to 16mm. This process involves both an intimacy with and distance from the actual film material, a cycle which is also evoked by the mood of the film itself. The sound track, which both elucidates and obscures, combines with the visual track, an excess of color and movement, of exotic and ordinary, public and private images, into a sensual meditation on the elusive, compelling qualities of "her fragrant emulsion," be it a forgotten actress, or a disappearing medium. (A film by Lewis Klahr: 1987, 10 mins, Color, 16mm, Print from Filmmaker). As Seen on T.V. : Images from the small screen, manipulated to emphasize the video surface of scanlines and luminous color, are taken out of the home and onto the large screen, into the realm of projected desires. Brief scenes of ordinary and extraordinary actions are looped, and when repeated, the gestures become ambiguous, mysterious, opening the door on a space of anxiety, longing and fantasy. (A film by David Rimmer: 1986, 15 mins, Color, Silent, 16mm, Print from Canadian Filmmakers Distribution West). Aquí se lo halla (Here You Will Find It) : A man's story of his youthful passion is juxtaposed with sensual images of Mexico-a ritualistic bullfight, figures in shadows, glimpsed behind draped cloths. Images that both hide and expose and a memory evoked from the depths of the past, combine to construct an elusive subject, a portrait of self and sexuality. (A film by Lee Sokol: 1982, 18 mins, Color, 16mm, Print from Filmmaker). The Red Thread: "Mostly shot in San Francisco and Northern California, material filmed using the camera almost as a p(r/a)inter, a means of shaping the visual world as film, but without reflection) in response to what that world was opening in me. Material!-analogies between weaving and spinning thread and images, already a pattern within film history, are here carried into further ramifications of unraveling and patterning in fabric- and cinema-making, as well as in personal and mythic dimensions" (Larry Gottheim). (A film by Larry Gottheim: 1987, 17 mins, Color, 16mm, Print from Film-makers' Cooperative). Total running time: 74 mins.
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