Screening | Andrew Norman Wilson: The Order of Ought

Thu Feb 15 2018, 7:30pm

This screening, featuring videos and selections by Andrew Norman Wilson at Anthology Film Archives, presents works in which artificial and animal intelligence play a role in the production of images that emphasize alien perspectives for human viewers.

Wilson writes, “The works amount to an ethical disturbance in which the involvement of intelligent, amoral actors complicates a humanist legacy that understands the world as having been given for our needs and created in our image. From these revisionary vantage points, this stagnant legacy begins to contradict itself, amounting to an ecologically murderous, even suicidal tendency. Thankfully, I also sense an order of ought, a program for escape.”

Program

Stan Brakhage, Mothlight,1963, 4 min, 16mm (preserved by Anthology Film Archives)
Andrew Norman Wilson, Ode to Seekers 2012, 2016, 8-min loop, digital
Yuri Ancarani, Da Vinci, 2014, 25 min, digital
Andrew Norman Wilson, The Unthinkable Bygone, 2016, 2-min loop, digital
Chimpanzee Enjoys a Cigarette, 2010, 34 sec, digital
Jos De Gruyter and Harald Thys, Die Aap van Bloemfontein, 2014, 23 min, digital
My Finger Family Rhymes, Funny Animals Swimming Race Animals INDOOR PLAYGROUND For Kids 3D Colors Animals Finger Family Songs, 2017, 5-min excerpt, digital

Tickets are available at Anthology’s box office on the day of the show only. The box office opens 30 minutes before the first show of the day. There are no advance ticket sales. Reservations are available to Anthology or Swiss Institute members. For more ticket information, please see here: http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/buy-tickets.

For questions about accessibility at Anthology Film Archives, please email lou@swissinstitute.net.