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Friday, January 23, 2009
Monday, January 19, 2009
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Jayne Parker
Room Art Space
Jayne Parker's films are showing at a really great gallery space off hackney road
three films projected on video with musician Anton Lukoszevieze playing cello
Arc being my favourite.
we where given a a cup of tea by the nice lady running the space. i think every gallery should be this friendly.
Wavelength, 1966/67. Dir Michael Snow. 45 min. + Event: Wavelength: Discussion on the enduring legacies of Michael Snow’s masterpiece
Wavelength
Perhaps I should of seen this film in 1968 but for me it was a great disappointment.
Talked up as a classic piece of structural film, It seemed a mess littered with decorative motif's, bad acting and effects that seemed to detract from the conceptual potential of the piece.
for all i had heard about this piece it turns out its not a a continual zoom.
in the talk after William Reban said the film was not theatrical, However i disagree it is. the scene in which some one pretends to die could not be less theatrical. The Curator of exhibitions at BFI said it was painterly, surely this is just a way of saying its full of decoration. double exposures and the like. Then there is the sound : a mixture of location recording, a beatles song and a rising tone or tones. the tones come in about 10 minutes in. i cant understand this. its like an after thought. why. why woulld you over dub a beatles song. was this as radical as they claim.
In contrast to wavelength was the exhibition of recent work. the piece
Solar Breath (2002) pictured above was perfect. an unaltered video projection of a window with curtains being sucked in and out by the wind. simple. automatic. funny.
http://www.bfi.org.uk
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