Shoot Shoot Shoot Program 1

Date: 20 October 2016 | Season: Shoot Shoot Shoot 2016 | Tags:

dresden-dynamo

SHOOT SHOOT SHOOT PROGRAM 1
Thursday 20 October 2016, at 7:30pm
New York Anthology Film Archives

It was the film workshop that set the structure of the LFMC apart from other film co-ops. The facility housed a continuous processor and step printer that enabled filmmakers to work directly with the medium, without the need or expense of commercial laboratories, and provided a set of technical parameters that enabled a school of filmmaking to develop. This program spotlights works that were, more or less, produced within that environment, from the more playful films of Annabel Nicolson and Marilyn Halford, to one of Malcolm Le Grice’s early loop-based found footage meditations on the military/industrial complex. Mike Leggett’s seminal process-piece Shepherd’s Bush, a measured passage from darkness to light, was conceived as a test for the Co-op’s step printer but is nonetheless a cathartic experience for the viewer. Chris Garratt’s Versailles I & II and Lis Rhodes’ dynamic Dresden Dynamo explore the possibilities of using visual imagery to create optical sound on 16mm film.

Annabel Nicolson, Frames, 1973, 16mm, 18fps, color, silent, 8 min
Marilyn Halford, Footsteps, 1975, 16mm, b/w, sound, 7 min
Mike Leggett, Shepherd’s Bush, 1971, 16mm, b/w, sound, 15 min
David Crosswaite, Film No. 1, 1971, 16mm, color, sound, 10 min
Lis Rhodes, Dresden Dynamo, 1971-72, 16mm, color, sound, 4 min
Chris Garratt, Versailles I & II, 1976, 16mm, b/w, sound, 11m
Malcolm Le Grice, Reign of the Vampire, 1970, 16mm, b/w, sound, 16 min