{"id":3592,"date":"2010-10-08T12:30:16","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T18:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=3592"},"modified":"2025-01-09T23:52:32","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T05:52:32","slug":"internal-systems-films-by-coleen-fitzgibbon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2010\/10\/08\/internal-systems-films-by-coleen-fitzgibbon\/","title":{"rendered":"Internal Systems: Films by Coleen Fitzgibbon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday, October 14, 6 p.m. | Coleen Fitzgibbon in person!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201c\u2026Brilliance waiting to be revisited.\u201d \u2014 Holly Willis, LA Weekly<\/em><\/p>\n

Between 1973 and 1975, Coleen Fitzgibbon, operating under the name \u201cColen Fitzgibbon,\u201d produced a series of films that stand as some of cinema\u2019s most rigorous explorations of the medium.\u00a0 Associated with the Structural film movement and New York\u2019s No Wave scene, Fitzgibbon\u2019s films emphasize time, duration, and their own flickering mechanics while also hinting at a deeper socio-cultural meaning. This evening, the SAIC alumna will present four of these films, including her 1974 standout, Internal System<\/em>, whose recent restoration is attracting fresh acclaim.\u00a0 In the words of curator Andr\u00e9a Picard, the film is \u201ca vast, minimalist study of the monochromatic frame, a sort of sublime testing of film\u2019s internal logic, its emulsive permutations and light sensitivities.\u201d Also on the program: Fitzgibbon\u2019s scratchy audio-visual collage Found Film Flashes<\/em> (1974); the gorgeous FM\/TRCS<\/em> (1974) which uses the process of rephotography to transform the image of a woman dressing into abstract orbs of color and light; and the witty Restoring Appearances to Order<\/em> (1974), featuring a short sequence of Fitzgibbon scrubbing a dirty sink to suggest the labor of art-making. Special thanks to Sandra Gibson for her generous assistance with this program. Coleen Fitzgibbon, 1973-75, USA, 16mm, ca. 75 min (plus discussion).<\/p>\n

COLEEN FITZGIBBON<\/strong> (1950, Illinois) was active as an experimental film artist under the pseudonym \u201cColen Fitzgibbon\u201d between the years 1973-1980. A student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Whitney Independent Study Program, she studied with Owen Land (aka \u201cGeorge Landow\u201d), Stan Brakhage, Yvonne Rainer, Vito Acconci, and worked on film projects for Dennis Oppenheim, Gordon Matta-Clark, and Les Levine.\u00a0 She formed the collaborative X+Y with Robin Winters in 1976, the Offices of Fend, Fitzgibbon, Holzer, Nadin, Prince, and Winters in 1979 and is best known for co-founding the New York based Collaborative Projects, Inc. (Colab) in 1977, along with artists Kiki Smith, Jenny Holzer, Liza Bear, Betsy Sussler, and Tom Otterness, among others.\u00a0 Fitzgibbon has screened her work at numerous international film festivals and museums, including the EXPRMNTL 5 at Knokke-Heist, Belgium; Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Anthology Film Archives, Collective For Living Cinema, and Millennium Film Workshop, all New York City, and most recently at the Toronto Film Festival (2009) and the Museum of Modern Art, New York City. Fitzgibbon currently resides in New York and Montana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thursday, October 14, 6 p.m. | Coleen Fitzgibbon in person! \u00a0 \u201c\u2026Brilliance waiting to be revisited.\u201d \u2014 Holly Willis, LA Weekly Between 1973 and 1975, Coleen Fitzgibbon, operating under the name \u201cColen Fitzgibbon,\u201d produced a series of films that stand as some of cinema\u2019s most rigorous explorations of the medium.\u00a0 Associated with the Structural film […]<\/p>\n

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