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the distance between here
and there
7.5 mins, 16mm, handcrafted colour film, sound, april 2005
traveling through an invented
landscape…the
space between here and there.
An
abstract film made by applying colour tape directly onto
emulsion and exposing it to light. The film presents colour
fields in motion, though for the most part the ground is
white like a gessoed canvas, and filled with a moving curtain
of dust and hair and spots. In order to relieve the regularity
(the tyranny?) of the projector’s 24 frame per second pulse, freeze frames are introduced, showing up and isolating a jagged crimson edge, an orange wall with its soft cracks, a yellow corner. After isolating, and setting apart colours in the film’s opening movement, they are brought together in a careening, flickering collage in the film’s second minute. Anticipating and then re-blending the afterimages of these ragged colour fields, the palette slowly darkens as the layers accumulate, canceling out the brilliance of “pure” colours.
A visceral, physical cinema making the eyeballs sweat. Hidden colour
codes of the synapses firing: a new thought is being born,
and a new movie to accompany it. [Mike Hoolboom, 2007]
Selected screenings:
'Double Vision’(In celebration of the Images Festival 20th Anniversary & the CFMDC’s 40th Anniversary) - Kino Arsenal, Berlin - nov 07
SF
Cinematheque 'Starting in San Francisco/Going On' Curated
and Presented by Charles Boone San Francisco, CA Feb 2007
2006
Whitney Biennial: Day for Night new york, ny
- march - may 2006
selected exhibitions:
Mount
Saint Vincent Art Gallery 'Pulse:
Film And Painting After The Image' curated by Ingrid Jenkner & Barbara
Sternberg, Halifax NS - oct/nov 2006
Collections:
cfmdc Spotlight
Series DVD 2007
Distribution:
contact CHRISTINA or
the cfmdc
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