From: Mark McElhatten (email suppressed)
Date: Wed Oct 08 2008 - 06:47:32 PDT
Walking Picture Palace program at Anthology Film Archives
Tonight Wednesday Oct 8 at 9 p.m. Anthology Film Archives 2nd and
2nd Street in Manhattan – New York.
PAOLO GIOLI special program with 35mm premieres at 7p.m.
STILL LIGHT OUT at 9 p.m.
Vanessa O’Neill - Suspension 10 minutes, 16mm Double Projection,
color/bw
Bruce Checefsky Pharmacy 4min 38 sec. 35 mm black and white 2001
Daniel Riccuito Greenwood Cemetery video 3D 10min.
Bruce Checefsky- Taureg 2008 7:30 sec. silent version 16mm b/w
Paolo Gioli - "Finestra davanti ad un albero" 1989 (dedicated to
Fox Talbot)
Ken Jacobs - ALONE AT LAST 2008 digital 2 min.
Kerry Laitala – Phosphene Dreams 2008 digital and Special Surprise…
Chris Gehman- Refraction Series Canada • 2008 • 35mm (1:1.37)
5.5 min.
Vanessa O’Neill - Suspension
10 minutes, 16mm Double Projection, color and black & white, silent,
2008
At once distant and immersive, the horizon hovers, recedes and
emerges. Concerned with ideas of mutability and impermanence,
"Suspension" investigates possibilities of expansion, the dissolution
of ground/water/air, and relationships of proximity and distance.
Bruce Checefsky Pharmacy 4min 38 sec. 35 mm black and white 2001
“ Simply beautiful” – Guy Maddin
Pharmacy is based on Stefan and Franciszka Thermson’s influential
1930 abstract photogram film APTEKA. The Thermsons are considered the
most important filmmakers of the Polish avant- garde of pre WWII
Europe.Pharmacy is a chaotic anarchic assemblage of chemistry lab
measuring cups and spoons various size test tubes, tweezers, eyeglass
lenses, and a cornucopia f of translucent pharmaceutical equipment
seen as shadows in black and white reverse images.
Daniel Riccuito Greenwood Cemetery video 3D with Pulfrich filter 10
min.
In the warm light of late summer, just before dusk, I walked around
GREENWOOD CEMETERY with my wife. The iron fence separating us from
the cemetery grounds began to shimmer, alternately resisting and
focusing the deeper vistas beyond. Rebounding space - "Pulfrich!"
My idea here was to reverse depth. What I discovered, quite happily,
was that shocks and anomalies are to be expected - subjectivity
rules! - D.R.
Bruce Checefsky- Taureg 2008 7:30 sec. silent version 16mm black
and white photogram film.
A dramatic black and white abstract film, TUAREG is a melodious
assemblage of Alencon, Venetian, and Point D'espirit lace; artificial
silk flowers, plants and trees seen as shadows cast by pocket, tube,
and LED flashlights. Beautifully photographed in black-and-white on
outdated twenty-five year old direct positive film, the resulting
dense grain images evoke a veil of secrecy and tension surrounding
the film’s meaning. The visible division of the screen in half,
several simultaneous images, ruptures the illusion that the screen's
frame is a seamless view of reality.
Filmed in a private animation studio in Cleveland with experimental
filmmaker Robert Banks Jr. and artist Tina Cassara. Directed by
Bruce Checefsky.
Paolo Gioli - "Finestra davanti ad un albero" 1989 (dedicated to
Fox Talbot) 16 mm black and white silent 13 min.
[Window in front of a Tree] I have several English style windows and
this and a tree in winter have caused me to think about Fox-Talbot’s
window—his first image, perhaps. Carried out, as usual, with the
technique—but perhapsit would be better to say the discipline—of the
flicker, which is, “the undulation, trembling, quivering, flashing,
sparkling weakly” of the dictionary, in short everything of the”
cinèsi fosforescentica.” Drawn from a thin monograph (it’s worth
saying from typographic ink where there had been silver salts) I
tried to shake my window using his, where there had been a tree in
winter. Cross-dissolving between real and not-real, between fixed and
animated images of his lively works,seemed to me to reconstruct what
would have perhaps happened to Fox-Talbot, filming my window in
winter.- P.G.
Ken Jacobs - ALONE AT LAST 2008 digital 2 min.
Who wrote the Book of Love? A page torn from... the longed for moment
clasped at last. Encircled, swelling in time and flying apart. For
your eyes only. To be viewed with both eyes open in relative
darkness. No one will be admitted after the first two minutes. Viewer
discretion advised. Let no one tear asunder…
Kerry Laitala – Phosphene Dreams 2008 digital
A digital version working with the material basis for the film
Phantogram shot as it awakened upon a flat bed of revolving mirrors
and digital shuttering.
Chris Gehman- Refraction Series Canada • 2008 • 35mm (1:1.37)
5.5 min. • colour • silent
Refraction Series offers an experimental approach to optics, using
simple materials and techniques to generate a range of images of pure
light and colour in motion. The film is inspired by the ideas of
early scientists who investigated the nature of light and visual
perception, particularly the experiments and writings of the tenth-
century Arab mathematician/scientist Ibn al-Haytham and the English
mathematician/scientist Isaac Newton.
For Refraction Series, Chris Gehman worked in a darkened studio
with a variety of small light sources, inexpensive optics and
everyday objects that refract, diffract and otherwise alter the
character of the light passing through them. Unmounted lenses and
prisms, small apertures, bottles and drinking glasses, CDs and
liquids were used in a series of experiments to generate images that
were recorded on 16mm Kodachrome reversal stock – often with no lens
attached to the camera itself – and optically printed to 35mm. The
results of these experiments have been edited into a brief suite of
“visual music.” Refraction Series finds moments of beauty and mystery
in the movement of light itself, without reference to solid,
recognizable objects. It invites us to seek out the subtle but
rapturous effects of light that are all around us every day, and to
consider how the treasure of colour is concealed in white light.
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