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Wednesday, Jun 19, 1991
Painting with Light
Works by Stan Brakhage, Peter Hutton, James Herbert and Andrew Noren In Wold Shadow (1972, 3 mins, Silent, Color), Stan Brakhage creates "my laboriously painted vision of the god of the forest" by manipulating a single image, that of a stand of trees. In Titian's Goblet (1990, 11 mins, Silent, B&W) is the second part of Peter Hutton's ongoing landscape study of the Hudson River Valley. The title refers to a painting (c. 1833) by Thomas Cole, who is regarded as the father of the Hudson River school of painting. James Herbert's Automan (1988, 19.5 mins, Color) is "a blending of physical erotic beauty with a tension created by the careful placement of nude figures within the film frame...Automan offers the viewer a dialogue which is built on the strong instinctual use of a visual language which actually repels and surpasses any literary translation." (Shellie Fleming) Andrew Noren's Charmed Particles (1977, 78 mins, Silent, B&W) is "(an) exquisite chronicling of Noren's self-confessed activity as a 'light thief' and 'shadow bandit'...With smoke, hair, leafy textures and fabrics treated together in a sort of light blender that suggests Josef von Sternberg's teasing manner of dissolving his own glittering bric-a-brac..." (Jonathan Rosenbaum)
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