Filmmaking as Installation and Performance @ SLC

Filmmaking as
Installation
and
Performance

Sarah Lawrence College

Spring 2005 Student Installation Show

On-line supplement to our class reading

Expanded Cinema

Web pages of filmmakers who use
performance / installation techniques in their work

Bill Brand - maker of the Masstransiscope, a zoetrope-based subway installation.

Decasia - Bill Morrison's multi-projection piece produced to accompany Michael Gordon's symphony of the same name. Premiered at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, and has screened at numerous film festivals and museums worldwide.

Valie Export - "Expanded Cinema as Expanded Reality." An edited version of a lecture delivered by Valie Export at a series of screenings and talks on Austrian independent filmmaking curated by Mark Webber, London, May 31-June 1 2003.

Thorsten Fleisch

Sabrina Gschwandtner

Taka iimura - film performances with 8mm projector at the Robert Beck Memorial Cinema and installation pieces

Ken Jacobs - reviews and program notes: "Nervous System Film Performance II: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" at the International Forum of New Cinema; "Nervous Ken Shakes Up the Headlands" Sausalito, CA; "Ken Jacobs Nervous System Programme Notes" from Secret Cinema

Chris Jordan - light and slide artist, creator of the "color selector."

loopcollective.com - "Loop is a collective of independent media artists that strives to develop a public platform integrating experimental film and video with other art forms. We program and produce works for presentation through exhibitions and events in both traditional and non-traditional spaces. Our mission is to explore the roots of experimental film and video by creating a dialogue with other artistic mediums."

Anthony McCall - maker of "A Line Describing a Cone"

Paul D. Miller a.k.a. Dj Spooky that Subliminal Kid - A clip of Dj Spooky's "Rebirth of a Nation" (remix of D.W. Griffith's 1912 "Birth of a Nation.") Edited with additional effects by PanOptic's Gary Breslin and Adam Lewin.

MovieMovie - 1967 air structure/mixed-media event at the 4th International Experimental Film Festival, Knokke-le-Zoute, Belgium, by Jeffrey Shaw Theo Botschuijver, Sean Wellesley-Miller and Tjebbe van Tijen.

Peripheral Produce North American Film Tour - the short films and projector performances of Mad McCormick and Johnne Eschleman.

Pocket Cinema - Gustav Deutsch's participatory use of 100 super-8 film viewers.

Multiultramedia - Projection performances as "Projexorcism." Projexorcism uses a quad 16mm 'auto-shred' projector array that is suspended from a lighting pole - the projectors are synchronized with a 4-channel sound-actuated variable speed lighting controller. The projected images are split, inverted and bent using silver reflective CD-R's and plastic fresnel lenses.

Joost Rekveld - filmmaker and installation artist: kinetic installation pieces found under heading "work."

Kathy Rose - fabulous work involving projection and live performance.

Robert Schaller - San Francisco filmmaker/installation artist. Works include "Triptych," which uses three 16mm prints to be shown interlocked and other film performance works and installations. "Route 1000010" A van converted to a mobile movie, in and around Denver, Colorado, 1997. With fellow artist, Craig Coleman, etc.

Shoot Shoot Shoot - Expanded Cinema The First Decade of the London Film-Makers' Co-operative & British Avant-Garde Film 1966-76: "British filmmakers led a drive beyond the screen and the theatre, and their innovations in expanded cinema inevitably took the work into galleries."

Sink or Swim - An Outdoor Ephemeral Event of Film Projections and Installations Saturday, July 7th, 2001, Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, 8pm Presented by the San Francisco Cinematheque. And beautiful documentation of the event, worth a look for this aspect too.

Harry Smith Archives - filmmaker whose work is presented in Harry Smith Recreation shows by M. Henry Jones with magic lanterns and film projection.

Rudi Stern "Theater of Light" - "theatrical presentation of projected light compositions with thematically coherent hand-painted imagery. The program involves the audience in a kinetic and environmental experience of sound and light."

The Tape-beatles - Public Works present The Tape-beatles (and Vice Versa).

Tjebbe van Tijen - Imaginary Museum - A lovely site documenting expanded arts events among other works.

Wet Gate - the All-16mm-Projectionist Ensemble. A great site with great film-performance content. "We perform pieces for multiple 16mm sound projectors as a "band", the machines and films as musical instruments."

Stan Vanderbeek - Creator of the Movie-Drome.

Chris Welsby - installation artist/filmmaker.

Robert Whitman - exhibit at the DIA Center

Jud Yalkut - Member of the USCO collective, installation retrospective at the Whitney Museum in 2000, "Dream Reels: VideoFilms and Environments", visual arts narrative resume.

More

1960s light shows

shirtmagic.com/lightshow.html - a great "how to" of light show techniques.

liquidlights.com

Magic lanterns

luikerwaal.com - Lovely website all about the Magic Lantern

Victorian Magic Lantern Magic Lantern slides

Panoramic collage by Tjebbe van Tijen/Imaginary Museum Projects: of shadowplay and other pre-cinematic principles - 4000 years of visual narrative.

Widescreen Museum - Great site about the history of wide screen formates.

Reviews of and articles about the Whitney Museum's major
exhibit of film and video installation: "Into the Light"

New York Press

Village Voice

New York Times

The Washington Post

Postings on Frameworks relating to alternate film presentation:

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