Jordan James Kaye, who explores new visual expressions in celluloid film, comes to Kanuma. A programme of his short films will be screened, including physical and visual experiments. He will also talk about his experiences at the Baltic Analog Lab, an artists' collective and film lab based in Latvia, where he spent last year. All those interested in film, collectives and residencies are welcome.
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18:30 Open / 19:00 Start
Resevation 2,000 JPY
At the door 2,500 JPY
both incl. 1 drink
Free for junior high school students and under
Jordan James Kaye is a multifaceted visual artist based in Naarm/Melbourne.
His artistic practice is an experimental mergence of analog film, sculpture, poetry, installation and performance.
His artworks are informed by his poetic response to the human encounter of our world, seeded by a desire to unveil threads to the fabric of his personal experience.
He realises works that are technically complex, driven by pure compulsion, that vibrate and encourage immersion in deep reflection.
I explore and participate in experimental film in it’s essence yet there lays a deep desire to break free of traditional modalities of the audiences participation of my ‘film work’ - the desire seeps to the surface of the foundational backbone of cinema and the beholders experience of it.
I make films.
I make film sculptures of my films.
I make live performance of my films.
I make sound on films.
I make sound from films.
I make sculptures as vessels for my films.
I make films in the most tangible way I know.
I make films from reverse engineering, for fun.
I make films to break them to their most material form to remind myself of the tangibility of life.
I make films to make sculpture to make performance, to ask myself questions and to project that onto an audience.
I showcase films with the respect that the materiality and structural nodes of analog film deserve and catapult them into the physical reality we exist.
I deeply ask of myself to escape established constructs to set my films free, selfishly as a priority and un selfishly so they can live freely in a public domain.
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