May 13 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 / SUN MAY 13 / 7-10PM

Vincent Meessen & Adam Leech, The Residents, 6:15
Tony Conrad, The Flicker, 30:00
Rosa Barba, It’s gonna happen, 3:00

30 MIN INTERMISSION

Guy Debord, Hurlements en faveur de Sade, 64:00