From: Cineworks (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Jan 17 2005 - 11:36:48 PST
Parallax, 16mm x 2
Expanded Cinema Performance by Alex MacKenzie
Wednesday January 26th 2005, 8:00pm, doors 7:30pm
Presented by Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society
The Western Front, 303 East 8th Avenue, Vancouver BC
Admission: $5.00 -$10.00 sliding scale, reception to follow
www.cineworks.ca email suppressed 604-685-3841
Vancouver-based media artist Alex MacKenzie's most recent expanded
cinema piece, PARALLAX, a suite of short works performed with two
antique 16mm analytic projectors.
Using found footage, selected from a personal collection of several
thousand industrial and educational films, MacKenzie explores the
interception of psyche and culture - the space where mind meets
matter - and the conflict that ensues. PARALLAX invokes an anamorphic
rupture of the screen width: individual light beams cross
territories, negative and positive blend and cross-hybridize to
create a beauty in the inherent violence of existence. Taking
third-wave avant-gardists such as Landow, Sharits, Rimmer and Jacobs
as point of departure, MacKenzie uses speed variations, lens
manipulation, masking and film chemistry to create images that
shudder and shimmer across the screen. His work occupies space both
within narrative and abstract territory: a hands-on manipulation and
complex of ideas that stretch from the conceptual to the potential
gestures contained within the projection device itself. Further,
MacKenzie's audio formulations source original field recordings, the
internet, appropriated recordings and the actual film soundtracks to
invoke a dramatic subterfuge where order and chaos unbind.
Alex MacKenzie has been working with various expanded cinema models
for over a decade, presenting his works across Europe and North
America. He was the founder and programmer of both the Edison
Electric Gallery of Moving Images and the Blinding Light!! Cinema in
Vancouver and continues to pursue film and video programming
independently
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