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Friday, Nov 8, 2019
7 PM (72 mins)
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BAMPFA
Still Raining Still Dreaming
Uncanny landscapes and mysterious journeys emerge in these five works by filmmakers who construct surreal worlds by repurposing appropriated materials, including films, engravings, and video games. Joseph Cornell’s Rose Hobart distills the 1931 B movie East of Borneo into an uncanny twenty-minute ode to the eponymous actress. Phil Solomon’s works Last Days in a Lonely Place and Still Raining Still Dreaming take place in the eerie digital landscapes between the action in Grand Theft Auto. In Our Lady of the Sphere Lawrence Jordan animates Victorian engravings to suggest exotic, anachronistic journeys. Shambhavi Kaul’s Mount Song traverses depopulated environments from various films, whose constructed landscapes evoke places imagined and remembered. Kaul writes, “these sites appear to me as a constellation of agents forming something both specific [and] quite incoherent.”
Films in this Screening
Last Days in a Lonely Place
Phil Solomon, United States, 2007
FILM DETAILS
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- B&W
- Digital
- 22 mins
source
- BAMPFA
Our Lady of the Sphere
Lawrence Jordan, United States, 1969
FILM DETAILS
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- Color
- 35mm
- 9 mins
source
- BAMPFA
permission
- Canyon Cinema
Mount Song
Shambhavi Kaul, United States, 2013
FILM DETAILS
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- Color
- Digital
- 9 mins
source
- Shambhavi Kaul
Rose Hobart
Joseph Cornell, United States, 1936
FILM DETAILS
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- B&W/Tinted
- 16mm @ 16fps
- 20 mins
source
- Private collection
Additional Info
- Courtesy The Museum of Modern Art, New York, © 1995 The Museum of Modern Art
Still Raining Still Dreaming
Phil Solomon, United States, 2008
FILM DETAILS
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- Color
- Digital
- 12 mins
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- BAMPFA