May 15 2007

Screening | Movies Without Pictures

CURATED BY KRIST GRUIJTHUIJSEN AND GIANNI JETZER

Spanning several decades of work in film, video and cinema, MOVIES WITHOUT PICTURES treats the blank screen as staging-ground for subversive storytelling and genre-expanding experimentation. During the 1960s and ’70s, avant-garde filmmakers such as Paul Sharits and Tony Conrad used the imageless frame to test the boundaries of the cinematic experience. In dialogue with the structuralist films of the past, artists today engage the blank screen in an effort to formulate poignant visual statements, exploring narrative, its linguistic form and political content, to question the sovereign power of the image.

PROGRAM / TUE MAY 15 / 7-10:30PM

Sahar Suliman, 8clo, 8:00
Ditte Lyngkær Pedersen, What the Hell Does Purgatory Look Like?, 8:00
Adam Leech, 13:51, 13:51
Paul Sharits, N:O:T:H:I:N:G, 36:00

30 MIN INTERMISSION

Louise Lawler, A Movie Without a Picture, 124:00