On FRIDAY, APRIL 25th, at 7pm, Jennifer Reeves presents her feature film THE TIME WE KILLED at the Film-Makers' Cooperative (475 Park Avenue South, 6th Floor), followed by a Q&A moderated by Joshua Peinado (@joshuapeinado), and a screening of Reeves' short film FEAR OF BLUSHING.
THE TIME WE KILLED “...proves that 16mm is still a tool for poets.” –Bill Stamets, @chicagosuntimes
“Her observations blend into a lyrical swirl of sunny reverie, muted trauma, and inescapable reality” –@edhalter, @villagevoice
Body Prop is an avant-garde essay film and attack against the ontology of white imperialism. Made of mostly hand-processed super 8 film - the rejected pieces of film used in other pieces of The Numb Spiral. The piece, in five movements, takes on the subject of the Body as a prop, as a body politic, as a simulation, and as a necropolitical expense, creating a “Cadaver Decomposition Island” of discarded scraps of Super 8 and archival material reveal the shadow of US nihilism within the advanced stage of hyperreality.
Proposed by Emma Roufs, experimental filmmaker, independent curator and co-director of the micro-cinema la lumière collective (Montreal, Canada), The Montreal Experimental - Analog Visions program is a showcase for experimental filmmaking in Montreal, highlighting the work of contemporary filmmakers interested in analog creation in all its diversity.
A survey of recent work by Barbara Lattanzi will be screened on April 23 at Hallwalls, Buffalo NY. All the videos share one desire - to be paintings. Pursuing that desire, their intensive processes generate novel spaces for visual and sonic exploration. In particular, the videos generate spaces between dimensions - interstitial to what we conventionally think of as three-dimensional space. It is because these videos roam fractal between-nesses that they can be considered "grotesque". The videos are expressions of grotesque realism.
Self Portrait, Analogue Film Screening A space to be personal, independent and together
35mm, 16mm, 8mm, experimental animation, mix media, installation ~ independent personal films
Where film creates a space for liberation and reveal. In an act of self portrait the artist also mirrors society- distorting and freeing it. Archiving memory through vision and non linear time.
