Discussion: The Future of Expanded Cinema

Date: 8 December 2006 | Season: Expanded Cinema 2006 | Tags: ,

EXPANDED CINEMA: DISCUSSION
Friday 8 December 2006, at 11am
Stuttgart Württembergischer Kunstverein

THE FUTURE OF EXPANDED CINEMA

Guest artists and invited speakers will discuss issues related to the presentation and documentation of EXPANDED CINEMA works, addressing important questions concerning the conservation, presentation and study of this filmic performance art. EXPANDED CINEMA often demands the direct participation of the artist-creator, resisting re-enactment and reconstruction in their absence. Each projection is different, embracing chance and variation, and adapted to its exhibition environment, making it impossible to encapsulate a definitive performance. Given these conditions, how can such works be adequately recorded and studied outside of the live experience, whilst retaining the unique characteristics of this dynamic, ephemeral art form ?

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

Demonstration: Pickled Film

Date: 8 December 2006 | Season: Expanded Cinema 2006 | Tags: , ,

EXPANDED CINEMA: DEMONSTRATION
Friday 8 December 2006, at 3pm
Stuttgart Württembergischer Kunstverein

TONY CONRAD: PICKLED FILM

In a radical approach to film preservation, Tony Conrad will discuss and prepare Pickled Film, methodically mixing raw film stock, vinegar, vegetables and spices.

Tony Conrad, Pickled Film, USA, 1974, 16mm performance, colour, sound, variable duration


Screening

Date: 8 December 2006 | Season: Expanded Cinema 2006 | Tags: ,

EXPANDED CINEMA: SCREENING
Friday 8 December 2006, at 7pm
Stuttgart Württembergischer Kunstverein

Ken Jacobs, Opening the Nineteenth Century: 1896, USA, 1990, 16mm, b/w, sound, 9 min
An archival film from the turn of the century, transformed into impossible 3D.

Hans Michaud, MorningFilms Double Projection 8/2001-10/2004, USA, 2004, 2 x 16mm, b/w, silent, 5 min
A celluloid sketchbook composed to a strict mathematical scheme.

Rose Lowder, Certaines Observations, France, 1979, 2 x 16mm, b/w, silent, 14 min
“Certain observations are used to define notions regarding the appearance of things in true or apparent motion.”

Yann Beauvais, Sans Titre 84, France, 1984, 2 x 16mm, colour, silent, 14 min
Photographs of the Arc de Triomphe, split into strips, reformed and transformed.

Werner Nekes, Gurtrug Nr. 2, Germany, 1967, 2 x 16mm, colour, sound, 13 min
Two triangular images, vertically aligned, form an X in space and time.

Ernst Schmidt Jr., Doppelprojektion, Austria, 1969, 2 x 16mm, b/w, silent, 5 min
Doppelprojektion explores the transformation of events from physical space into visual space.


Performance: William Raban

Date: 8 December 2006 | Season: Expanded Cinema 2006 | Tags: ,

EXPANDED CINEMA PERFORMANCE: WILLIAM RABAN
Friday 8 December 2006, at 8:30pm
Stuttgart Württembergischer Kunstverein

English artist William Raban is one of the leading practitioners of EXPANDED CINEMA, mixing the materialist aesthetic with time-lapse and observational documentary. The programme draws on key works from the 1970s, and features the world premiere of a new arrangement of Wave Formations.

William Raban, Surface Tension, UK, 1976, 2 x 16mm, b/w, sound, 15 min
William Raban, Angles of Incidence, UK, 1973, 2 x 16mm, colour, silent, 10 min
William Raban, Moonshine, UK, 1974, 2 x 16mm, colour, silent, 8 min
William Raban, Diagonal, UK, 1973, 3 x 16mm, colour, sound, 5 min
William Raban, Wave Formations, UK, 1977-2006, 5 x 16mm, colour, sound, 20 min


Lecture: William Raban

Date: 9 December 2006 | Season: Expanded Cinema 2006 | Tags: ,

EXPANDED CINEMA: LECTURE
Saturday 9 December 2006, at 3pm
Stuttgart Württembergischer Kunstverein

WILLIAM RABAN: EXPANDED CINEMA AND STRUCTURAL FILM

Using film examples, William Raban will give a personal account of EXPANDED CINEMA at the London Film-Makers’ Co-operative throughout the 1970s, demonstrating how some of the multi-screen and film performance works came into being and will describe their relationship within a broader structural film aesthetic.


Screening

Date: 9 December 2006 | Season: Expanded Cinema 2006 | Tags: ,

EXPANDED CINEMA: SCREENING
Saturday 9 December 2006, at 7pm
Stuttgart Württembergischer Kunstverein

Paul Sharits, Razor Blades, USA, 1965-68, 2 x 16mm, colour, sound, 25 min
“By opposing the eyes and ears against the mind, Razor Blades cuts deeply, both in our psychic and visceral bodies.”

Joost Rekveld, #5 (Variation 2), Netherlands, 1994, 3 x 16mm, colour, silent, 6 min
A luminescent action painting of abstract light forms in kinetic motion.

Carl Brown & Michael Snow, Triage, Canada, 2004, 2 x 16mm, colour, sound, 30 min
Each artist worked independently on one panel of a double screen ‘exquisite corpse’.


Performance: Bruce McClure

Date: 9 December 2006 | Season: Expanded Cinema 2006 | Tags: ,

EXPANDED CINEMA PERFORMANCE: BRUCE MCCLURE
Saturday 9 December 2006, at 8:30pm
Stuttgart Württembergischer Kunstverein

McClure creates hypnotic and immersive film experiences from a minimal quantity of audio-visual information. Loops constructed by bleaching clear frames from opaque emulsion are manipulated live by the filmmaker, using guitar effects pedals and adapted 16mm projectors, which have been modified in order to vary their intensity, speed and framing.

Bruce McClure, Rack and Slide, USA, 2006, 3 x 16mm performance, colour, sound, variable duration
Bruce McClure, Nethergate, USA, 2006, 3 x 16mm performance, colour, sound, variable duration


Demonstration: Bruce McClure

Date: 10 December 2006 | Season: Expanded Cinema 2006 | Tags: ,

EXPANDED CINEMA: DEMONSTRATION
Sunday 10 December 2006, at 3pm
Stuttgart Württembergischer Kunstverein

BRUCE McCLURE: DEMONSTRATION

Bruce McClure will discuss his work and give a practical demonstration of his uniquely modified projectors and sound processing units.


Screening

Date: 10 December 2006 | Season: Expanded Cinema 2006 | Tags: ,

EXPANDED CINEMA: SCREENING
Sunday 10 December 2006, at 7pm
Stuttgart Württembergischer Kunstverein

Malcolm Le Grice, Castle One, UK, 1966, 16mm, b/w, sound, 20 min
One of the earliest expanded works, “The Light Bulb Film” questions the role of the spectator in film viewing experience.

Morgan Fisher, Projection Instructions, USA, 1976, 16mm, b/w, sound, 4 min
Every film must be performed by the projectionist. This one requires extra attention.

Lis Rhodes, Light Music, UK, 1975-77, 2 x 16mm, b/w, sound, 25 min, film environment
A dynamic and interactive sound and light environment in which image and sound are inextricably linked.


Performance: Tony Conrad

Date: 10 December 2006 | Season: Expanded Cinema 2006 | Tags: , ,

EXPANDED CINEMA PERFORMANCE: TONY CONRAD
Sunday 10 December 2006, at 8:30pm
Stuttgart Württembergischer Kunstverein

Tony Conrad presents two performances that propose alternative systems of film production and refer back to a sequence of interventionist works he made in the mid-1970s Bowed Film combines Conrad’s interests in film and musical minimalism. For Sukiyaki, unexposed film strips are stir-fried in the traditional manner prior to their unique projection.

Tony Conrad, Bowed Film, USA, 1974, 16mm performance, b/w, sound, variable duration
Tony Conrad, Sukiyaki, USA, 1973, 16mm performance, colour, sound, variable duration