Spectrum Between presents…
MACHINES IN THE GARDEN: Ecstatic Landscapes in 16mm

As something of a sequel/companion to our water program, this collection of films showcases a range of different approaches to representing landscapes and natural forms. Filmmakers include Larry Gottheim, Stan Brakhage, Rose Lowder, James Otis, Peter Rose & Nathaniel Dorsky

Tuesday November 11th
NW Portland, OR
Venue: Special Features
Doors at 7:00 PM / Films at 8:00 PM

Whether a train spotter or ordinary passenger, all can acknowledge the striking impact railways have had on the modern world. Filmmakers have sought to capture many of the aspects that hold an enduring aesthetic appeal through different audiovisual techniques within the medium of short film.

Japanese experimental filmmaker Kaori Oda uses her camera as a navigational tool, feeling her way through unfamiliar worlds, particularly subterranean terrains, in her “underground” experimental non-fiction features. These films are dazzling visual and sensory experiences that at first seem preoccupied with remote, unlivable landscapes. Yet within even the most extreme locales, Oda reveals a strikingly syncretic world – one in which nonhuman landscapes converse with human memories, desires, and cosmologies.

Glenn Sonnie Wooden is one of the most provocative radical thinkers and artists in the Chicago art scene. His works Guillotine and Godspeed, both previously curated by Fugue State founder, M. Woods, directly confront a real more real than real, operating within the slippage of a media's capturing of Blackness, as critic and practitioner of the convex mirror of digital communication.