Shoot Shoot Shoot Program 3

Date: 25 October 2016 | Season: Shoot Shoot Shoot 2016 | Tags:

breath-web

SHOOT SHOOT SHOOT PROGRAM 3
Tuesday 25 October 2016, at 9pm
New York Anthology Film Archives

In the early 1970s, Malcolm Le Grice, Gil Eatherley, William Raban and Annabel Nicolson frequently collaborated on expanded cinema shows under the collective name Filmaktion. In After Manet, all four appear as filmmaker/performers, sharing in a picnic while each operating a 16mm camera according to a set of instructions determined by Le Grice. The resulting images offer different viewpoints on the same event and were shot in permutations of color, black and white, positive and negative. Originally projected as a four-screen simultaneous projection, After Manet is now presented as a HD digital composite. William Raban’s rarely seen film Breath is also a performance within a pastoral landscape. Here, three cameras (operated by Raban, Eatherley and Le Grice) converge on a tape recorder, each shot lasting the duration of a single breath.

William Raban, Breath, 1974, digital, color, sound, 16 min
Malcolm Le Grice, After Manet, After Giorgione – Le déjeuner sur l’herbe or Fête Champêtre, 1974, digital, color, sound, 53 min