Thursday, March 13, 2003, 8pm Robert Beavers in person! Imparting ‘the serenity of a thought without words’, Robert Beavers draws upon historical and architectural sources with an acute sensitivity to site. The filmmaker’s presence, though not always visually evident, is perceived in every composition, gesture and edit. Beavers’ films demand an openness and concentration, but […]
Thursday, March 6, 2003, 8pm Mani Kaul in person! The second Conversations at the Edge offering from Indian experimental cinema pioneer Mani Kaul (Department of Film, Video & New Media Artist-in-Residence, Spring 2003) is Siddeshwari. Based on the life of legendary singer Siddeshwari Devi (1903-77), India’s leading exponent of the classical thumri tradition, Kaul’s biographic […]
Thursday, February 27, 2003, 8pm Sharon Couzin in person! Professor in the Department of Film, Video & New Media, Sharon Couzin presents premieres of three new works. Elusive Cha-Cha (2002) is a portrait of performance artist E.J. Sims, with a soundtrack featuring Robert Metrick’s bongo and voice chant punctuating and echoing quick jump cuts. A […]
Thursday, February 20, 2003, 8pm Zoe Beloff in person! Investigating the relationship between imagination and moving image technology, internationally acclaimed media artist Zoe Beloff brings us two works. The CD-ROM Beyond operates in a playful spirit of philosophical inquiry exploring the paradoxes of technology, desire and the paranormal. An interactive work, it allows the viewer […]
Thursday, February 13, 2003, 8pm Mani Kaul in person! This spring, the Department of Film, Video & New Media is pleased to have Mani Kaul as an artist-in-residence. Mr. Kaul was at the forefront of the emergence of a new cinema in India in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. In the singular, visually arresting […]
Thursday, February 6, 2003, 8pm Curator Keely Macarow in person! Australian curator Keely Macarow presents a survey of recent Australian digital video that probes the interface between new and old media cultures. Among the works to be shown are: Martine Corompt’s Spell on You (2002), which features a boy who is either an unwilling child […]
Read More… from Another Planet: Recent Australian Digital Video
Thursday, December 5, 2002, 8pm 1994—2002, USA, ca. 70 min, various formats. Filmmakers in person! Independent film/video makers Deborah Stratman and Thomas Comerford are both instructors in the SAIC Department of Film, Video and New Media. Stratman will present In Order Not To Be Here (2002), a stunning look at security-obsessed suburbia; Untied (2001), about breaking […]
Thursday, November 21, 2002, 8pm 1934—1976, Jean Painlevé, France, ca. 71 min, 35mm The director of more than 200 nature films, Jean Painlevé (1902-1989) scandalized the scientific world with a cinema designed to entertain as well as edify. Advocating the credo “science is fiction,” he endowed seahorses, vampire bats, and fanworms with human traits — […]
Read More… from Science Is Fiction: The Films of Jean Painlevé
Thursday, November 14, 2002, 8pm 2001, Jon Jost, USA, 68 mins, video Jon Jost in person! Jon Jost numbers among the first and most adventurous of American independent filmmakers to explore non-film methods of production. He is in the forefront of the movement to create a new aesthetic and a new visual vocabulary for the […]
Thursday, November 7, 2002, 8pm 1972—1989, Eleanor Antin, USA, ca. 90 min, various formats Eleanor Antin in person! The career of pioneering multimedia artist Eleanor Antin spans four decades of film, video, photography, writing, performance and installation. Exploring what she calls “the slippery nature of the self,” Antin invents a unique mixture of real and […]