Through the course of the 1980s, Canadian artist-filmmaker Richard Kerr had gradually moved towards an ‘accelerated cinema,’ an imagistic cinema of movement, montage and aggressive sound design. Kerr’s work in this ‘accelerated cinema’ became increasingly total at the same time that he became invested in the model of the ‘teacher-practitioner,’ collaborating directly with his students and working with simple, accessible tools.
This collection gathers thirteen of Kerr’s films made between 1991 and 2017, chronicling an important phase in his creative evolution. Crisis Collision Resolve serves as a portrait of an artist pushing the limits of the moving image, while pitching a dynamic dialogue between pedagogy, collective action, and personal vision.
- plein air etude (1991)
- plein air (1991)
- the machine in the garden (1991)
- i was a strong man until i left home (2000)
- pictures of sound (2000)
- collage d'hollywood (2003)
- hollywood décollage (2003)
- a universe of broken parts (2007)
- action : study (2009)
- de mouvement (2009)
- house arrest (2012)
- morning ... came a day early (2014)
- wholly holy (2017)
First pressing, limited edition of 1000.
1991-2017 / 165 minutes / b&w/colour / various AR
SPECIAL FEATURES
- Newly restored digital masters approved by director Richard Kerr
- Machines of Cinema, a new interview with Richard Kerr
- The Dissolving Carousel, a video essay on Kerr's demi-monde by Canadian filmmaker Stephen Broomer
- Liner notes by film scholar Bart Testa
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