Re: Silvi Simon at The Film Gallery (Paris)

From: john porter (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Feb 27 2006 - 15:44:28 PST


Thanks Pip,
I wish I could see this exhibit.
I couldn't find it on the website. Is it already
underway?
Is she using different film formats, or one in
particular? Any video?
John.

--- Pip Chodorov <email suppressed> wrote:

> Silvi Simon
> Filmatruc
> (Filmthingy)
>
> The Film Gallery presents Silvi Simon's first
> exhibition in Paris.
> Filmatruc is a project to create various objects
> linking light, shadows and movement. This
> project, which will continue to evolve throughout
> the year 2006, will be supported through public
> offerings of subscriptions.
>
> Silvi Simon has made animated films, performances
> and installations. She films and develops her
> images in black and white using different
> traditional and experimental techniques (shooting
> frame by frame, hand-coloring, light play,
> solarization, reticulation, cameraless
> filmmaking, chimigrams).
>
> For the first objects shown here, optical
> machines in constant transformation, movement and
> screen size become virtual and real: optical
> illusion, persistence of vision, motors and
> projection; tiny projections for mobile screens
> on which the image hangs only by a thread, to be
> touched with the hands or the eyes...
>
> Here the work is to be handled, metamorphosized,
> activated: it is fugitive and sensitive.
> We experience the present moment, awaking our
> curiosity.
>
> There is constant research into the projected
> image in artist-based and artisan film production.
>
> Silvi Simon was born in 1970 in Livry-Gargain.
> She lives and works in Strasbourg.
> She studied plastic and audiovisual arts (DUCAV)
> at the Université des Sciences Humaines in
> Strasbourg. There she made her first Super 8
> films. In 1995, she moved to Brussels to study
> film animation at ENSAV, La Cambre. There she
> made her first installations with different
> organizations including the Nova cinema. She is
> an active member of the Burstscratch group
> (production and programming of Super 8 and 16mm
> films). In 1999, she organized a mobile film lab,
> the CamionCinéLab (TruckFilmLab).
> Since 1995, her work has been shown in many
> festivals and art centers:
> Lab Meetings (Brussels), Chalon dans la Rue, Les
> Abattoirs (Chalon sur Saône), La Machinerie
> (Strasbourg), Festival National du Film
> d'Animation (Auch), Festival des Cinémas
> Différents (Paris), Festival off de la photo
> (Arles), Festival Paris Cinéma, l'AFCA, Traverses
> Vidéo (Toulouse), Festival Images Imaginées
> (Orléans), pour l'exposition XXL, Lieu Unique
> (Nantes), Bandits Mages (Bourges), Soirée des
> Vidéophages (Toulouse), Pellicula et Basta
> (Grenoble), Rencontre des Labos Indépendants
> (Genève).
>
>
>
>
> Re:Voir / The Film Gallery
> The first gallery devoted to film as an art form.
> 18 rue de Saintonge - 75003 Paris - France
> tel : 08 73 86 47 00 - fax : 01 42 77 93 15
> email suppressed
>
>
>
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> For info on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at
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>

John Porter, Toronto, Canada
http://www.super8porter.ca/
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