Ariana Gerstein joins us from New York to present her remarkable animations and experimental films, often using imagery created from scanners. “The tactile films of Ariana Gerstein reconcile her fascination with filmic materiality with the soft ephemeralities of light, time and memory. Using complex hand-wrought editing methods and extensive optical printing Gerstein’s work dazzles in its visual complexity and rhythmic timing.
Filmmaker, “media archeologist,” and interim chair of the SFAI Film Department Kerry Laitala makes use of decaying cultural relics and antiquated medical technologies to resurrect images and artifacts that have been forgotten. For her screening on April 3, she will present her own work together with haunting, melancholic work by Phil Solomon and the recently departed Barbara Hammer–as well as a special performance of her recent expanded cinema work Chromatic Wheels, with a live score by Jon Leidecker.
Elizabeth Block es cineasta, artista y escritora de poesía y ficción. Sus textos se han publicado en gran número de periódicos y revistas, y en internet. Su obra literaria incluye la novela A Gesture through Time (Un gesto a través del tiempo), una obra híbrida de prosa, poesía, folioscopio textual y relato guionizado de amor obsesivo y ambiguo, muerte y una inusual historia del cine.
Fechas:
De Lunes, Abril 15, 2019 - 18:00 hasta Martes, Abril 16, 2019 - 17:55
Filmmaker/Curator Ruth Somalo presents the world premiere of "Tell Me When You Die," a trilogy of performative films by Amber Bemak and Nadia Granados that reframe porn as a genre which can be empowering in its engagement with women and their bodies. Bemak and Granados work collaboratively with text, language, and the body to illustrate the colonial narratives that are still deeply entrenched an
Richard Kerr is a visual artist-media maker known for his expansive body of work, which has explored a multiplicity of genres and mediums since the 1970’s. In the 1990’s Richard expanded his practice to encompass meta-cinema installation work and most notably the conceptualization of the Motion Picture Weaving Project. Richard is a teacher/artist, as such his studio informs his teaching and his teaching inspires his studio work.
Fechas:
De Domingo, Marzo 31, 2019 - 19:00 hasta Lunes, Abril 1, 2019 - 18:55
Metaphors combine beauty with a call for a better life. The Berlin artist Maria Korporal studied in the Netherlands and was working and living in Italy until 2013. Her videos, installations and performances show a strong technical affinity, while at the same time, the content of her works often criticizes the Western and economically oriented civilization. Her films are hybrid combinations of recorded video footage, animated text and digital animations from drawings and photographs. Often inspired by lyrics, they could be read as visual poetry or video aphorisms.
Fechas:
De Jueves, Marzo 28, 2019 - 21:00 hasta Viernes, Marzo 29, 2019 - 20:55
