{"id":955,"date":"2005-11-17T04:02:57","date_gmt":"2005-11-17T10:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=955"},"modified":"2021-04-23T18:15:47","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T18:15:47","slug":"films-of-timoleon-wilkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2005\/11\/17\/films-of-timoleon-wilkins\/","title":{"rendered":"Films of Timoleon Wilkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<strong>Thursday, November 17, 2005, 6pm<\/strong> | <em>Timoleon Wilkins in person!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the words of critic Brecht Andersch, \u201cTimoleon Wilkins has fashioned a mytho-poetic vision of his own resolutely in the American grain. His stunning Kodachrome imagery, redolent of home-movies, educational films, the specter of Hollywood arcane Americana, frames a world of memory and experience.\u201d Wilkins remains faithful to a classicist avant-garde film practice, influenced greatly by Brakhage, Anger, Conner, Baillie, Schofill, and his beloved Will Hindle. This retrospective of the last decade of Wilkins\u2019\u00a0work includes the Chicago premiere of his latest film, <em>Los Caudales<\/em> (2005); the gorgeously saturated and nostalgic <em>Blue Sun Western<\/em> (1995); the somber, farcical and stunning <em>MM <\/em>(1996); the unslit regular-8 critique of gay culture, <em>Gay Pride4 <\/em>(1995); <em>Starry Skies of Absolution <\/em>(2003); and <em>Lake of the Spirits<\/em> (1998, 7 min.), which Brakhage called, \u201cThe most successful metaphoric envisionment of the desert that I\u2019ve seen in many years.\u201d In the words of Nathaniel Dorsky, \u201cTimoleon is not only in love with film, but is the love of film\u201d (KJ Mohr). 1995-2005, Timoleon Wilkins, USA\/Mexico, ca. 62 min, 16mm.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, November 17, 2005, 6pm | Timoleon Wilkins in person! In the words of critic Brecht Andersch, \u201cTimoleon Wilkins has fashioned a mytho-poetic vision of his own resolutely in the American grain. His stunning Kodachrome imagery, redolent of home-movies, educational films, the specter of Hollywood arcane Americana, frames a world of memory and experience.\u201d Wilkins [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2005\/11\/17\/films-of-timoleon-wilkins\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Films of Timoleon Wilkins<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[211,423,615],"class_list":["post-955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-10","tag-experimental","tag-monographic-shows","tag-usa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8812,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions\/8812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}