Greetings, Frameworks!
If you'd all indulge me for a moment I'd like to shamelessly plug my show for those of you who are in Chicago or going to be in Chicago this Upcoming Friday. I'm proud of my work and would be really happy if some of you could make it.Thanks for your time!
Here's the program info:
Artifacts and Videoscapes: Videos by Jake Barningham
CRITIC'S PICK! - Time Out Chicago
Chicago's Own
Friday, October 14, 2011 - 8:00pm
Location:
Chicago Filmmakers
Heavily influenced by the avant-garde (Stan Brakhage and Chris Welsby most
specifically) Jake Barningham envisions video as a medium struggling to
exist. Barningham's work is concerned first and foremost with the
textures, rhythms and colors possible in video. Largely using
re-appropriated footage from amateur meteorologists across the country,
the videos in this program re-envision landscapes not as majestic
natural sculptures but as things, like video, that are struggling to
exist: colors and shapes snap, gesticulate and then dissolve in a
membrane of pixels. Trees and clouds shift restlessly against
ill-defined spaces and tremble at the hand of invisible forces.
Appropriately, Barmingham compares working in video to “sculpting with
smoke.” His work has been shown at The Onion City Film Festival, as well as the Wisconsin International, Arkansas Underground, and Milwaukee
Underground Film Festivals. Many of the 18 shorts featured in this
program are Chicago premieres. (2011, 75 min.)
Program:
Again (2011, 4.5 min, DV, sound)
And Again (2011, 3min, DV, sound)
Charles Ives' Three Quarter-Tone Pieces "Chorale" (1924, 4.5min, CD)
Hills (2011, 2min, DV, silent)
Easter (2011, 2min, DV, silent)
Color Copy (2011, 3min, DV, silent)
Playing (2011, 2min, DV, silent)
Night, Day (2011, 7min, DV, silent)
View from a Cemetery (2011, 4min, DV, silent)
A Pass (2011, 2min, DV, silent)
Silence (2011, 2min, DV, silent)
All (2011, 2min, DV, silent)
Parts (2011, 4min, DV, silent)
Tropical (2011, 5min, MiniDV, silent)
Back Yard (2011, 4min, DV, silent)
Wood Cart series 1-4:
1. Wood Cart (2011, 5min, DV, silent)
2. "Sometimes at night..." (2011, 6.5min, DV, silent)
3. "...I hear strange laughter" (2011, 6min, DV, silent)
4. Buster Keaton (2011, 5min, DV, silent)
Program time total: 75 minutes 18 videos and a musical interlude.
Quotes about Jake Barningham's video work:
"There are shades of Stan Brakhage in Jake Barningham’s digital
daydreams... In love with the textures of video, Barningham’s shorts
transform the mundane into the gorgeously abstract, drowning signposts
of daily life—houses, trees—in a churning ocean of digital noise." -
A.A. Dowd, TimeOut Chicago
"[Barningham] understand(s) that abstraction is a necessary function
of digitizing images, and [his] shorts, most of them silent, use the
medium for its unique qualities of flicker and pixilation." - Fred
Camper, The Chicago Reader
"What Barningham has managed to do is, simply put, more than akin to
the poetry that Brakhage has imbued to celluloid. It is this critic’s
opinion, whatever it may be worth, that Barningham is building a
formidable body of work and quickly emerging at the forefront of this
still new, not entirely understood, medium." - Dan Gorman, truth24framespersecond.blogspot.com
Jake Barningham was born and raised in rural Wisconsin. He moved to
Chicago, IL to pursue film studies and began making videos in 2004. His
work has shown at The Onion City Film festival, The Wisconsin
International Film Festival, Bearded Child Film Festival, The Iowa City
Experimental Film Festival and The Milwaukee and Arkansas Underground
Film Festivals. His work was also part of a the Three Person Show "After Image: New videos by Jake Barningham, Kyle Canterbury and Yoel Meranda" last Winter at Chicago Filmmakers. Barningham's work has also been
featured internationally, in a program curated by Gabe Klinger:
"Fragments of a room: A Sampling of Chicago's best film/video art" in
Toronto, CA.
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