From: gregg biermann (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Apr 21 2009 - 06:45:33 PDT
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Gregg
Would you mind terribly forwarding this to my brothers and sisters on
frameworks?
thanks
your pal
Mark
an upcoming show in NYC, at ANTHOLOGY THURSDAY APRIL 23 at 7:30 pm
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/schedule/search/film/?id=9290
THE EYE IN MOTION: HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT, AND OTHER FILMS
In addition to screening HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT, his hour-long
cinematic evocation of the global urban milieu, New York filmmaker
Mark Street will discuss other works that excavate the poetry of
city-inspired observations. This program as a whole ranges from
Chantal Akerman’s observational glimpses of a crumbling
Eastern-European metropolis to Chris Marker and Joris Ivens’s
whimsical film essay on an ignored Chilean port city.
Oskar Fischinger MÜNCHEN-BERLIN WANDERUNG (1927, 10 minutes)
Chantal Akerman D’EST (excerpt) (1993)
Joris Ivens …A VALPARAÍSO (excerpt) (1963) (with text by Chris Marker)
Mark Street GUIDING FICTIONS (2002, 5 minutes)
&
Mark Street
HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT
2008, 62 minutes, video.
Street’s new film is inspired by the tradition of cinematic city
symphonies and is made up of footage shot in four cities: Santiago de
Chile; Hanoi, Vietnam; Dakar, Senegal; and Marseille, France.
Vignettes from each city are juxtaposed, pulling the viewer from place
to place, forming connections only to have them disappear just as
quickly. Historical details (involving Salvador Allende and Ho Chi
Minh, among others), quotes from writers such as Miriama Ba and
Charles Baudelaire, laconic captions, music, and expressionistic sound
design offer contrasting contexts in which to view these images.
HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT offers a dynamic way of viewing street life in
these locales, encouraging us to think about how we apprehend a place
visually and conceptually.
“This is brilliant filmmaking, at once engaging and challenging,
partisan and universal.” –Howard Feinstein, INDIEWIRE
Total running time: ca. 95 minutes.
Upcoming Showings:
Thursday Apr 23 7:30 PM
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