The short films of Dicky Bahto
at No Name Cinema, Santa Fe, NM
doors at 7pm, show at 7:30
2013 Pinon St, Santa Fe
$5-15 suggested donation at the door / free popcorn
"His varied and complex engagement with moving image and photographic media is steeped in a deeply felt humanity and empathy, manifesting through his inspired photographic eye and frequently direct interaction with and appreciation of the material vitality of film and cinema. His films achieve heightened emotional states of great intimacy and poetry, often channeling the uniquely aleatory qualities of film to carry a sensuality and spirituality hovering in the space between loving depiction and vaporous abstraction." -Mark Toscano, Film Preservationist, Academy Film Archive
filmmaker in attendance from Los Angeles! post-screening Q&A!
Artist Dicky Bahto will make his first appearance in Santa Fe with a program of mostly recent digital works. The program will feature an excerpt from his recent three-hour long collaboration with musician Sarah Davachi, Music for a Bellowing Room, an exercise in resolution, inviting the audience to shift their concentration and perception through gradual changes in sound and image. The piece was originally commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and received its premiere performance in September 2023. Bahto will also screen a three-projector Super-8mm work titled Cave Creek. Winter canon. 2011. in a digital presentation, his film A play in black & white (for baba) (which was commissioned by Canal180 TV in Portugal & features a score by Matmos), and several video works that accompany music by some of the artists he regularly collaborates with, including Ashley Bellouin & Ben Bracken, Julia Holter, and Tashi Wada.
Dicky Bahto has exhibited work utilizing still and motion picture photography, sound, and performance at a variety of museums, galleries, microcinemas, film festivals, conferences, alternative spaces, and scenic locations spanning the Northern Hemisphere, from the Museum of Modern Art in New York to a series of nooks, crannies, and underbrush along and under Sunset Boulevard. He frequently collaborates with musicians, both as a performer and as a visual artist, including Sarah Davachi, Liz Harris, Julia Holter, and Tashi Wada, as well as with his lover, Patrick Londen, and their cats Simone and Katoosh.