Microscope Gallery is extremely pleased to present as the final night in a two-part series of works by the Japanese video and computer animation pioneer Ko Nakajima the full 90-minute version of his most well known work “Mt. Fuji”, made in 1984. While the 20-minute version has previously screened in the US – including in the 1986 program “New Video: Japan” as part of “Close Up of Japan, New York 1985-86” at the Museum of Modern Art and the subsequent traveling program, among others – the original version of the work has rarely, if ever, been shown in the US. A 7-minute long “short version” also exists.

Short films, video, and performance from Winnipeg
curated by Aaron Zeghers

Works by Ed Ackerman & Gregory Zbitnew, Karen Asmundson, Alyssa Bornn, Michael Buttersworth & Cameron Cummings, Clint Enns, Scott Fitzpatrick, Walter Forsberg, Guy Maddin, Mike Maryniuk, Milos Mitrovic, Jaz Papadopolous, Heidi Phillips, Matthew Rankin, Colby Richardson, Leslie Supnet, Aaron Zeghers 

For the 10th and final event of "Dreamlands: Expanded", a series of expanded cinema events organized by Microscope in collaboration with the Whitney Museum of American Art as part of the exhibition "Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905-2016", we are thrilled to present a new multi-projection and sound performance "The Owl Flies at Twilight" composed by the Optipus collective & orchestra in its largest configuration to date featuring 28 artists.

New York collective or “media laboratory” Optipus, led by Bradley Eros, hints at the historic demise of analog media and the wisdom resulting from this awareness in their new work titled “The Owl Flies at Twilight”, referencing G.W.F. Hegel’s famous quote.