Apparitions
We’re happy to host Vancouver’s Alex MacKenzie during the Toronto stop of his latest Eastern Canada/USA tour. MacKenzie is a key player in the revival of expanded cinema forms, having performed an array of super 8 and 16mm multiple projection works over the last twenty-five years. His projects stretch the possibilities of the analogue form, manipulating images to beyond our received expectations. This tour finds him performing his latest multi-projector piece, Apparitions:
“Inspired by early stereo imaging and the clash and collusion of socioeconomic forces, this suite of works seeks to dismantle cinematic codes while foregrounding projector and light as sculpture: a conscious corruption and interference of the apparatus to evoke the unexpected, reshaping representation into the realm of material and space. Using colour gels, masking, lens interference and projector movement in tandem with an exploration of binocular disparity, perspective, patterning and the film surface itself, Apparitions explores the transitional space between image and abstraction, nature and culture.” – Alex MacKenzie
“Where one locates ruptures or denies them is a political choice that determines the construction of the present. Whether one excludes or foregrounds certain events and processes at the expense of others affects the intelligibility of contemporary functioning of power in which we ourselves are enmeshed.” – Jonathan Crary, Techniques of the Observer
“Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Alex will be teaching a workshop on Handmade Emulsion: Creating Black and White Film Stock from Scratch at LIFT on Tuesday and Wednesday evening. Call 416 588-6444 to register. More info here: Handmade Emulsion Workshop
Programme:
Apparitions, Alex MacKenzie, Canada, 2 x 16mm, 2016, 55 minutes
@ Gladstone Hotel, Ballroom | 1214 Queen Street West
Monday May 2, 2016 | 8:00 PM screening | $5-10 suggested donation
Apparitions