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.
This one-hour program presents fifteen experimental shorts that focus on recontextualizing found or archival footage via algorithmic intervention. The work presented in the Retracted Cinema program use the appropriated film material itself as the site and means of auto-recontextualisation. Inspired by tendencies within conceptual art and Oulipo, the results are achieved by applying a set of rules or constraints (an algorithm) that governs a repeatable (iterative) array of transformations.
“A Teakettle’s Thermal Beings,” an evening of live performance and video works by Barbara Lattanzi, made between 1988 and 2014. The event is taking place as part of Microscope's series of “Imageless Film” performances in connection and collaboration with the “Imageless Films” series at Anthology Film Archives.
