{"id":1248,"date":"2001-11-16T13:30:01","date_gmt":"2001-11-16T13:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/?p=1248"},"modified":"2018-01-25T15:01:24","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T15:01:24","slug":"form-and-phenomena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/2001\/11\/16\/form-and-phenomena\/","title":{"rendered":"Form and Phenomena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"top\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<\/p>\n<p><b>FORM AND PHENOMENA<br \/>\nFriday 16 November 2001, at 1:30pm<br \/>\nLondon National Film Theatre NFT3<\/b><\/p>\n<p>A cinematic pageant book-ended by two new works of the visual artist Michael Snow, who was recently honoured with a retrospective at the Arnolfini Galleries in Bristol. <i>Prelude<\/i> is a parody of trailers, a metaphysical teaser about timing commissioned by the Toronto Film Festival. Ken Jacobs may be one of the most unlikely filmmakers to have ventured into digital video but <i>Flo Rounds A Corner<\/i> demonstrates a persuasive grasp of the medium. Using a system patented as \u2018Eternalism\u2019, both throbbing and molecular, Jacobs freezes and unfolds time. In his own voyage into deep cinema, Scott Stark constructs motion wonder from a set of anonymous 3D photos of a California beach. Flicker is also utilised in <i>Clip (4000f<\/i>), a mathematically edited contemplation on the death penalty. Each film by Robert Breer is a cinematic jewel, and his animated stroll through the alphabet is no exception. Using the medium in the message, <i>Exposed<\/i> toys with the voyeuristic nature of cinema, sprocket-holes masking the swelling image, while the melodrama <i>Maria Movie<\/i> is set among the grit and shards of cinemas past and present. Also using found footage, Tierney and Godovannaya bring together Jackie Chan, Margaret Thatcher and several serpents in a paean to St. Patrick. <i>The Living Room<\/i> is a sequence of baffling modulations and transformations of characters and objects, a stand-alone section from Snow\u2019s forthcoming feature <i>Corpus Callosum<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Michael Snow, Prelude, Canada, 2000, 3 min<br \/>\nVincent Grenier, Colour Study, Canada, 2000, 4 min<br \/>\nKen Jacobs, Flo Rounds A Corner, USA, 1999, 8 min<br \/>\nScott Stark, Angel Beach, USA, 2001, 25 min<br \/>\nRobert Todd, Clip (4000f), USA, 2001, 3 min<br \/>\nRobert Breer, Atoz, USA, 2001, 5 min<br \/>\nSiegfried A. Fruhauf, Exposed, Austria, 2000, 9 min<br \/>\nJeanne Liotta, Maria Movie, USA, 2001, 8 min<br \/>\nMoira Tierney &amp; Masha Godovannaya, You Can\u2019t Keep A Good Snake Down, USA\/Russia, 2000, 4 min<br \/>\nMichael Snow, The Living Room, Canada, 2000, 21 min<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>Also screening: Saturday 17 November 2001, at 4:15pm, NFT3<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alina Rudnitskaya\u2019s humanistic approach to documentary filmmaking often brings out the humour in her chosen subjects. As an introduction to her work, this programme depicts three diverse groups of contemporary Russian women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-1248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-london-film-festival-2001","tag-london-film-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}