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Tuesday, Sep 21, 1999
In Side Out: The Films and Videos of Scott Stark
Whether working with found footage, formal strategies, or subversive content, local filmmaker Scott Stark's films and videos afford one the pleasure of an idea that is distinctly cinema related. He has created "guerrilla" projections-projecting onto cars and into homes, confounding our ideas of how one views films. He has fed 16mm film through a 35mm still camera, made a film from pages of a book, and created sounds from images. This is an artist-a self-described passionate purist and cynical skeptic-who breaks the rules with humor and conviction, and with a delight in the unexplored possibilities of the many mediums in which he works. Tonight's program contrasts personal/interior spaces with public/exterior ones. His most recent film, in.side.out is both a formal chronicle of a house being torn down and a metaphor for the self. NOEMA is comprised of pornographic videos, but rather than the erotic moments, Stark choreographs the "insignificant" moments between the action. The haunting Acceleration, I'll Walk with God, and Archimedes Screw form a trilogy documenting displaced lives reflected and refracted through our culture.-Kathy Geritz
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