Helga Fanderl
Communing with Joseph Cornell’s The Aviary
We’re pleased to present an evening of films by and with Helga Fanderl inspired by Joseph Cornell’s 1955 film The Aviary. Fanderl is an incredibly prolific film artist whose mostly in camera-edited works are beautifully poetic ruminiations on the quotidian; she is currently in Toronto as artist-in-residence at LIFT.
“It was a challenge and a new experience to build a programme around Joseph Cornell’s and Rudy Burckhardt’s film The Aviary, a work that I have loved for a long time. With a selection of my films – both Super 8 and 16mm blow-ups – on the one hand I want to echo in a freely associative way specific qualities and motives of this fine work, making the beholder feel a mental and poetic affinity, on the other hand to give an insight into my way of filmmaking which is also different. To and fro as it were.” – Helga Fanderl
German-born filmmaker Helga Fanderl has been making Super-8 films since the mid 1980s. Silent, short, and edited in-camera, her films reflect the lightness and spontaneity of the small-gauge medium and camera. “With the Super-8 camera I can react very quickly: the eye against the viewfinder, the camera close to the body, perceiving and filming simultaneously.” Working in both black-and-white and color, the intensive poetic works (none is over three minutes) reveal a surprising and sensitive view of the environment: patterns of flight above tall trees or gray skyscrapers, shimmying leaves and falling green apples, flying baskets full of silver sardines shown in rapid succession. http://helgafanderl.com
Helga is also offering a workshop at LIFT during her residency!
THE POETICS OF (SUPER 8) FILMMAKING with Helga Fanderl: http://lift.ca/programming/poetics-super-8-filmmaking-helga-fanderl
Programme:
PART I (Films by Helga Fanderl, all Super 8, colour, silent)
BRUNNEN (Fountain), MÄDCHEN (Girls), GROSSE VOLIERE (Big Aviatory), APFELERNTE (Apple Harvest), WASSERFALL (Cascade), RIESENRAD (Ferris Wheel), KAKIBAUM IM WINTER (Persimmon Tree in Wintertime)
PART II
THE AVIARY, Joseph Cornell + Rudy Burckhardt, 1955, 16mm, b&w, silent, 11 minutes
PART III
LUCTOR, Helga Fanderl, 16mm, b&w, silent
PART IV
(Films by Helga Fanderl, all 16mm blow-ups from Super 8, colour, silent)
SPIEGELUNG (Reflections), INNENHOF (Courtyard) GRAUER REIHER (Grey Heron II), DREI MIDTOWN-SKIZZEN (Three Midtown Sketches), ZELTE AM KANAL (Tents on a Canal), KARPFEN IN FARBE SCHWIMMEND (Carp Swimming in Colour), GRÜNER BALLON (GREEN BALLOON), KETTENKARUSSELL (CAROUSEL), NETZWERFER (Throwing the Net), UNTER DEN SEEROSEN (Under the Water Lilies)
@ Gladstone Hotel, Art Bar | 1214 Queen St West
Monday October 15, 2012 | 8:00 PM screening | $5 suggested donation
The Aviary
Upcoming:
EMS #45 = Warren Sonbert FULL retrospective! Nov 15-17 @ AGO