Requiem for the Avant-Garde
Date: 14 November 2002 | Season: Infinite Projection
REQUIEM FOR THE AVANT-GARDE
Thursday 14 November 2002, at 7:30pm
London The Photographers’ Gallery
Using Super-8, 16mm and video, Ichiro Sueoka is a creating an evolving series which revisits classics of the 1960s and 1970s structural avant-garde. This programme will present the original inspirational works, followed by Sueoka’s “imitation films”. The modern interpretations refer to popular Hollywood cinema while investigating the conceptual ideas behind the earlier uncompromising masterpieces.
Georges Rey, La vache qui rumine, France, 1970, b/w & colour, silent, 3 min
Ichiro Sueoka, Pourquoi la vache qui rumine?, Japan, 2000, colour, sound, 5 min
Malcolm Le Grice, Little Dog for Roger, UK, 1967, b/w, sound, 13 min
Ichiro Sueoka, Little Cat for Flix, Japan, 2000, b/w, sound, 5 min
Owen Land (formerly known as George Landow), Film in which there appear Sprocket Holes, Edge Lettering, Dirt Particles, Etc., USA, 1965-66, colour, silent, 5 min
Ichiro Sueoka, A Film in Which There did NOT Appear Sprocket Holes, Edge Lettering without Dirt Particles, Japan, 2002, colour, sound, 4 min
Wojciech Bruszewski, Yyaa, Poland, 1973, b/w, sound, 5 min
Ichiro Sueoka, A film as the subject of Judy Garland, under the score of Wojciech Bruszewski’s film “YYAA”, Japan, 1999, colour, sound, 5 min
Peter Kubelka, Arnulf Rainer, Austria, 1960, b/w, sound, 7 min
Ichiro Sueoka, A flick film in which there appear Liz and Franky, is composed under the score of ARNULF RAINER by P. Kubelka on NTSC, Japan, 2001, colour, sound, 7 min
“The works in the Requiem for the Avant-Garde series make reference to the representative films of the experimental work of the 1960s and 1970s – work not actively engaged with today – and re-examine the ideas developed in these works. I am quoting from popular Hollywood cinema, sources that are easier to understand as representation. These works aim to show the concepts behind the films. Here, the object of inquiry is the history of film itself.” (Ichiro Sueoka)
Presented in co-operation with the 46th Regus London Film Festival. With thanks to Jeremy Rigsby & Media City/Artcite Inc.