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Wednesday, Oct 16, 2019
7 PM (75 mins)
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BAMPFA
Found Images: Films by Scott Stark
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Tonight’s program focuses on one strain in local filmmaker Scott Stark’s extensive oeuvre—the use of found images, whether industrial footage, movie trailers, amateur films, pornography, books, photographs, or, in the case of I’ll Walk with God, emergency information cards. Conceptually intriguing, often humorous, always surprising, these films are also often uncharacterizable. Stark constructs his most recent work, the performance piece Love and the Epiphanists, out of Hollywood movie trailers and other media, which he twists into a “playful and chaotic” futuristic narrative that is interrupted by timely history lessons. As Stark declares, it is a “pulsing, kinetic and intensely dramatic visual joyride.”
Films in this Screening
Is it true what they say
Scott Stark, United States, 2015
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- Color
- Digital
- 9 mins
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- Scott Stark
Bloom
Scott Stark, United States, 2012
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- B&W/Color
- Digital
- 11 mins
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- Scott Stark
Noema
Scott Stark, United States, 1998
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- Color
- 16mm
- 11 mins
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- Canyon Cinema
I’ll Walk with God
Scott Stark, United States, 1994
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- Color
- 16mm
- 8 mins
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- Canyon Cinema
The Sound of His Face
Scott Stark, United States, 1988
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- Color
- 16mm
- 5 mins
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- Canyon Cinema
Love and the Epiphanists, Part 1
Scott Stark, United States, 2018
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- Multimedia
- 30 mins
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- This performance piece makes use of anamorphic 35mm film, 35mm slides, digital video, audio recordings, and live spoken text.