Suspension
To celebrate our fifth year anniversary we’ve given ourselves the challenge of programming (and projecting) an evening of double projections!
Vanessa O’Neill’s sublime Suspension uses rephotography, tinting and superimposition to turn a westward view of the Pacific Ocean into a sublime interplay of waves, light and grain. Malcolm Le Grice’s classic Berlin Horse is a film that explores the possibilities of the loop, taking a short fragment of a silent film and subjecting it to a series of colour processes amplified by the phased music of Brian Eno. Daichi Saito’s Never a Foot Too Far, Even is a contemporary expansion, superimposing a section of a Kung-Fu action film into a perceptual play, accompanied by a violin composition by Malcolm Goldstein. Tonight’s screening of Visions in Mediation #2: Mesa Verde, Stan Brakhage’s vision quest to the ruins of the Ancient Peublo cliff dwellings in Southwestern Colorado is amplified by a second print given to Kate MacKay from the filmmaker as a gift. And finally, a third projector will be sparked to present For My Crushed Right Eye, Toshio Matsumoto’s ode to the social unrest and expansion of the late sixties, all of which threatened to burst out of the frame.
Programme:
Suspension, Vanessa O’Neill, 2008, USA, 2 x 16mm, 10 min.
Berlin Horse, Malcolm LeGrice, 1970, UK, 2 x 16mm, 9 min.
Never a Foot Too Far, Even, Daichi Saito, 2012, Canada, 2 x 16mm, 14 min.
Visions in Meditation #2: Mesa Verde, Stan Brakhage, 1989, USA, 16mm (+1), 18 min.
For My Crushed Right Eye (つぶれかかった右眼のために), Toshio Matsumoto, 1969, Japan, 3 x 16mm, 13 min.
@ Gladstone Hotel, Ballroom | 1214 Queen St West
Monday March 17, 2014 | 8:00 PM screening | $5-10 suggested donation
Special thanks CFMDC, LUX, Image Forum, Tomonari Nishikawa, Vanessa O’Nell, Daichi Saito and Ichiro Sueoka.
Berlin Horse
For My Crushed Right Eye
Never a Foot Too Far, Even
EMS #62 = TBA