Screening | Movies Without Pictures
Tue May 15 2007, 7:00—10:30pm
Mon May 14 2007, 7:00—10:00pm
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
Monday May 14th
7-10PM
Adam Leech, Silverleaf, 7:00
Walter Ruttman, Weekend, 11:00
Michael Snow, So is This, 45:00
30 MIN INTERMISSION
Derek Jarman, Blue, 80:00