From: A Suparak (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Jan 10 2005 - 15:10:48 PST
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FILM SCREENING + CLOSING RECEPTION
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January 23, 2005 / Sunday, 6:00pm
@ Cinemathe¸que quebecoise, 335 De Maisonneuve Est
Montreal, Canada
TROUBLE
Hollywood viewed by the avant-garde cinema /
Hollywood vu par le cinema d’avant-garde
Films by Martin Arnold, Linda Christanell, Bruce Conner, Richard
Kerr, Lewis Klahr, Matthias Mueller, Peter Tscherkassky, and Virgil
Widrich.
Curated by Brett Kashmere and Astria Suparak
to accompany the art exhibition “INDUSTRY.”
Reception to follow in the Cafe-Bar de la Cinemath¸que quebecoise.
Sunset Strip may be a two-way street, but there’s no escape from
female flesh when entering a movie coliseum or even the
neighbourhood microcinema. Not only is the Hollywood industry
consumed with containing, exposing and displaying women,
experimental filmmakers (although formally and conceptually
innovative) are similarly perpetrators and/or victims of these same
crimes of convention. But most do so consciously, mining mainstream
cinema’s endless blockbusters, influential archetypes and infamous
female trouble. Yes, these girls are (in) trouble, this desire is
problematic, these pictures are moving, those directions are
dangerous.
Re-presenting representations of genre paradigms, readymade
characters and dramatic soundtracks via campy performance, chemical
experimentation, physical collage, dialectical and vertical montage
and genre decoupage are the avant-gardes’ preferred forms of star
treatment.
The filmmakers assembled for “Trouble” extract not only hidden but
also unintentional, third meanings, which are as varied as the ways
of finding…
1) Home Stories (Matthias Müller, Germany, 1991, 16mm, colour, 6 min)
2) Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy (Martin Arnold, Austria, 1998,
16mm, b&w, 14 min)
3) Fast Film (Virgil Widrich, Austria, 2003, 35mm, colour, 14 min)
4) A Movie (Bruce Conner, USA, 1958, 16mm, b&w, 12 min)
5) Her Fragment Emulsion (Lewis Klahr, USA, 1987, 16mm, colour, 10 min)
6) Moving Picture (Linda Christanell, Austria, 1995, 16mm,
colour/b&w, 11 min)
7) Outer Space (Peter Tscherkassky, Austria, 1999, 35mm CinemaScope,
b&w, 10 min)
8) collage d’hollywood (Richard Kerr, Canada, 2003, 35mm, colour, 8
min)
Running time: 86 minutes
TROUBLE program notes and more information on each film at:
http://cinema.concordia.ca/industry/n_screenings.htm
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EXHIBITION DVD-CATALOG:
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To pre-order for one of the 500 signed and numbered editions of the
DVD-format catalog, either respond to this email or place an order
at the Closing Reception in Montreal on Jan. 23.
This unique, limited edition catalog titled, “INDUSTRIE/INDUSTRY:
Oeuvres recentes/Recent works by Richard Kerr,” features:
TWO HOURS OF AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIAL:
+ Three new collage films by Montreal filmmaker and visual artist
Richard Kerr: “collage d'hollywood”, “hollywood decollage”, and “le
bombardement de porte des perles.”
+ “Demi-monde”: A 30-minute version of Kerr's spellbinding,
feature-length dual-projector slide show.
+ “A Family Thing”: A 60-minute audio collage/radio drama by
Gerstyn Hayward.
70 PAGES OF ESSAYS, DRAWINGS, PHOTOGRAPHS:
+ Exhibition documentation including photos, Kerr’s notebook
drawings, exhibition inventory, related artworks, production notes.
+ Essays, conversations, program notes and other supplementary
texts by Gerda Johanna Cammaer, Randolph Jordan, Brett Kashmere,
Michael Rollo, Astria Suparak, Bart Testa, and William C. Wees.
HAND-CRAFTED AND PAINTED COVERS by robert.daniel.pytlyk
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EXHBITION INFORMATION:
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INDUSTRIE/INDUSTRY: Oeuvres recentes / Recent works by Richard Kerr
4 Nov 2004 - 23 Jan 2005
@ Cinemath¸eque quebecoise, Montreal (Quebec) Canada
April - May 2005
@ Emmersive Gallery, Toronto (Ontario) Canada
Information, press release, high quality images and video, articles,
bios:
http://cinema.concordia.ca/industry
Read Randolph Jordan's interview with Richard Kerr about the
INDUSTRY project at:
http://www.synoptique.ca/core/en/articles/industry/
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For press reviews and bookings of “TROUBLE” screening program,
visit: http://cinema.concordia.ca/industry/n_screenings.htm : or
email: email suppressed
For press reviews and bookings of “INDUSTRY” exhibition, visit:
http://cinema.concordia.ca/industry : or contact
email suppressed
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For info on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at <email suppressed>.