From: andrew lampert (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Jul 14 2008 - 12:50:22 PDT
Hi
Hope this isn't late notice, but I'd like to point out the exhibit DRAWING
ON FILM currently on display at The Drawing Room space at NYC's The Drawing Center and
inform you of an upcoming discussion event. I'll be one voice in a group conversation
alongside the folks listed below, but it's our hope that everyone on hand
will participate in the dialogue. This evening was prompted by an exchange
between the curators and myself about the various aesthetic concerns and
decisions exercised in the organization of this exhibition which, as stated
in the press release, "survey[s] the practice of 'direct film'- the process
of drawing, scratching, or otherwise manipulating film stock to create
images without a camera." We agreed that broadening our discussion about
such issues as historical context, the pluses and minuses of video
projection in properly representing the celluloid image, the hurdles to leap
when displaying experimental film in gallery situations and other likeminded
topics might just help us all figure out where things are at with the moving
image in 2008. Your opinion is valued, so please come if you can:
Film as Material
Wednesday, July 16, 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Please join us in the Drawing Room for a rare screening and conversation on
the legacy of direct cinema and the materiality of film in the age of
digital media with artist/filmmaker Tony Conrad, filmmaker Jennifer Reeves,
Anthology Film Archives film archivist Andrew Lampert, and The Drawing
Center curator Joćo Ribas. 16mm films by Harry Smith, Robert Breer, Storm De
Hirsch, and Tony Conrad will be shown.
Admission is free
The Drawing Center
35 Wooster Street, New York, NY, 10013
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For info on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at <email suppressed>.