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Tuesday, Mar 17, 1998
The Small-Gauge Works of Gary Adlestein and Jerry Orr
Jerry Orr and Gary Adlestein have been creating beautiful small-gauge films for over twenty years, and recently have begun working in 8mm video. The films of both artists reveal a wonderful sense of the qualities of the medium and an appreciation for capturing small, resonant moments. Adlestein's Spring/Fall Cinesong: For Storm De Hirsch directly acknowledges his debt to Hirsch's lyrical, layered use of super-8mm images. Many of Adlestein's works are elegant landscape films which reveal the light, colors, and feel of a place, whether "finding" Cezanne's painting in mountains of Provence or revealing the harvest of rural Pennsylvania. Concord, part of his M95 Miniatures series, was shot undercranked in a pool in the Catskills. Both Orr's Carousel and his Chance Hand were structured using computer-generated random numbers yet beautifully depict human gestures. A number of Orr's films densely layer images, including his mandala film, Journey, made as a reflection of his years working at a state mental hospital, and Local Activity, which he describes as "my life from before 'birth' until the recent present." Orr and Adlestein keep experimental film exhibition alive in Pennsylvania with their programming at Berks Filmmakers which they founded in 1975.-Kathy Geritz
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