EXPANDED CINEMA: EXPANDED PRE-CINEMA
Sunday 12 September 2004, at 3pm
Dortmund PhoenixHalle
Werner Nekes, Expanded Pre-Cinema, illustrated lecture, c.60 min
Werner Nekes presents an illustrated lecture on expanded light projections in the time before film, including demonstrations of objects from his historical collection of pre-cinematic devices.
EXPANDED CINEMA: THE ACTIVE SCREEN
Sunday 12 September 2004, at 5pm
Dortmund PhoenixHalle
After Morgan Fisher’s film activates the projector through a series of instructions to its operator, a programme of works that energise the normally passive screen, involving the direct participation of the artist. Guy Sherwin’s magical 8mm performances subtly blur our perception of reality and the projected image. Operation uses the body as projection surface, whilst the artist must draw on the canvas of the screen to fully realise Auf+Ab+An+Zu. After Leonardo uses six projectors to juxtapose a ‘real’ reproduction of the Mona Lisa with its re-photographed image and a Freud text on its creator.
Morgan Fisher, Projection Instructions, 1976, 4 min, film performance
Guy Sherwin, Paper Landscape, 1975, 10 min, film performance
Werner Nekes, Operation, 1967, 4 min, film performance
Valie Export, Auf+Ab+An+Zu, 1968, 4 x 5 min, film performance
Malcolm Le Grice, After Leonardo, 1973, 22 min, multi-screen performance
Guy Sherwin, Man With Mirror, 1976, 10 min, film performance
EXPANDED CINEMA: FILM ALS SPEKTAKEL, EREIGNIS UND PERFORMANCE
17 – 19 September 2004 (Second Weekend)
Dortmund PhoenixHalle
The second weekend features double screen projections of personal works, including landscape films, intimate diaries and insurgent affirmations of sexual identity. Andy Warhol’s classic Chelsea Girls (1966), an episodic dual projection starring Factory Superstars in “the Iliad of the underground”, will be shown on Friday evening.
Saturday 18th begins with Paul Sharits visit to Brancusi’s Romanian sculpture garden and Claes Oldenberg’s impressions of swinging London. A programme of works from the London Filmmakers Cooperative includes landscape films of William Raban and Chris Welsby, and reflective domestic observations by Gill Eatherley and Sally Potter. The evening begins will psychedelic films by Fred Drummond, Storm de Hirsch and Barbara Rubin’s orgiastic Christmas on Earth (1963), followed by Soma (1978), a subversive and erotic work by radical feminist artists Maria Klonaris & Katerina Thomadaki.
To close the weekend, multi-media artist Carolee Schneeman will present Kitch’s Last Meal (1973-78), a memorial to the cat featured in her Autobiographical Trilogy (1965-78). This highly emotional piece consists of variable units of private audiotapes and Super-8 films shown in vertical double projection.
Participating Artists: Maria Klonaris & Katerina Thomadaki (Greece/France).
Plus Films By: Fred Drummond, Gill Eatherley, Sally Potter, William Raban, James Scott, Chris Welsby (UK), Storm de Hirsch, Claes Oldenburg, Barbara Rubin, Carolee Schneemann, Paul Sharits, Andy Warhol (USA).
EXPANDED CINEMA: THE CHELSEA GIRLS
Friday 17 September 2004, at 8pm
Dortmund PhoenixHalle
Andy Warhol, The Chelsea Girls, 1966, 210 min, 2 screen films
Warhol’s magnum opus brought the avant-garde into commercial movie theatres. Twin screen projection depicts simultaneous events indifferent rooms of the Chelsea Hotel, playing psychological situations against each other. Factory Superstars including ‘Pope’ Ondine, Brigid Polk, Mary Woronov and Gerard Malanga give extraordinary performances in a fascinating observation of New York’s subculture. Sex, drugs and divinity, with exclusive music by The Velvet Underground.
EXPANDED CINEMA: DOUBLE DIARIES
Saturday 18 September 2004, at 2pm
Dortmund PhoenixHalle
Paul Sharits’ film chronicles a journey he made to Romania in 1977 to see Brancusi’s sculptures in the rural village of Turga Jiu. The Great Ice-Cream Robbery, made in collaboration with Claes Oldenburg, documents preparations for the artist’s 1970 exhibition at the Tate Gallery, and his impressions of London at that time.
Paul Sharits, Brancusi’s Sculpture Garden At Tirga Jiu, 1977-84, 21 min, 2 screen film
James Scott & Claes Oldenburg, The Great Ice-Cream Robbery, 1970, 36 min, 2 screen film
EXPANDED CINEMA: DOUBLE VISION
Saturday 18 September 2004, at 3:30pm
Dortmund PhoenixHalle
Using real time and time-lapse photography, Raban & Welsby each made films that take a systematic approach to temporal and spatial concerns, often in regard to landscape and environmental conditions. Play choreographs the movements of three pairs of twins, seen from the filmmakers’ window. Shot simultaneously with two cameras, the projected image appears to reconstruct real space. Gill Eatherley’s Pan Film tracks across the personal space of her room, contrasting the positive and negative image.
William Raban & Chris Welsby, River Yar, 1971-72, 35 min, 2 screen film
Chris Welsby, Wind Vane, 1971, 8 min, 2 screen film
Sally Potter, Play, 1971, 10 min, 2 screen film
William Raban, Angles of Incidence, 1973, 12 min, 2 screen film
Gill Eatherley, Pan Film, 1972, 8 min, 3 screen film
EXPANDED CINEMA: DOUBLE TROUBLE
Saturday 18 September 2004, at 6pm
Dortmund PhoenixHalle
Kaleidoscopic double screen films from the psychedelic 60s. Maja Replicate is an impulsive, vibrant collage created on the film-printer. The tumult of colourful imagery in Third Eye Butterfly directs us towards cosmic enlightenment, whilst Barbara Rubin’s film is an uninhibited exploration of sexual freedom. The libidinous activities of two couples are projected in superimposition through vivid colour filters.
Fred Drummond, Maja Replicate, 1969, 15 min, 2 screen film
Storm de Hirsch, Third Eye Butterfly, 1968, 10 min, 2 screen film
Barbara Rubin, Christmas on Earth, 1963, 29 min, 2 screen projection performance
EXPANDED CINEMA: SOMA
Saturday 18 September 2004, at 8pm
Dortmund PhoenixHalle
Maria Klonaris & Katerina Thomadaki, Soma, 1978, c.50 min, film & slide performance
A subversively erotic work for Super-8 and slide projection, which takes a radical approach to female sexuality and self-representation, and explodes the screen with shards of light. “The resonance of the image of the female body, in the mind and in the senses, its diffuse erogeneity, forms a pivotal theme in Soma.”
EXPANDED CINEMA: KITCH’S LAST MEAL
Sunday 19 September 2004, at 3pm
Dortmund PhoenixHalle
Carolee Schneemann, Kitch’s Last Meal, 1973-78, 56 min, 2 screen film
A double Super-8 vertical projection that documents the personal life of the artist and her partner as their relationship breaks down, up until the death of her cat Kitch. An intimate work of autobiographical filmmaking, projected as an interchangeable set of reels with ambient tape recordings of the household.
Note: At short notice, Carolee Schneemann was unable to travel to Dortmund, so Fuses and Plumb Line were also shown in a complete screening of the Autobiographical Trilogy.
EXPANDED CINEMA: FILM ALS SPEKTAKEL, EREIGNIS UND PERFORMANCE
24 – 26 September 2004 (Third Weekend)
Dortmund PhoenixHalle
The final weekend of the season features expanded cinema works that act on an environmental scale. The special event for ‘Museum Night’ is Anthony McCall’s 6-hour Long Film for Four Projectors (1974), a film which places the spectator within a constantly changing field of ‘solid light’. The night before, McCall presents Doubling Back (2003), the first in a new series of works based on a travelling sine-wave form, in a programme that includes Lis Rhodes’ Light Music (1975-77) in which the soundtrack is optically created by the image. All of these films take place in a fog or smoke-filled room.
Italian sculptor Giovanni Martedi will perform M.D. et § (1978) for filmstrip, mirror and electric drill, and William Raban and Wilhelm & Birgit Hein present a selection of multi-screen structural films of the mid-70s. The season ends with a live music and film loop performance by legendary American filmmaker and compolser Tony Conrad. Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain combines a flicker film environment with a static, minimalist drone.
Participating Artists: Giovanni Martedi (Italy/France), Anthony McCall (UK), Wilhelm Hein (Germany), William Raban (UK), Tony Conrad (USA).
Plus Films By: Birgit Hein (Germany), Lis Rhodes (UK), Beverly Conrad (USA).