The ever-popular Compendium strand returns to Evolution with an exceptional new programme, curated by Greg Kurcewicz.
This year's survey of recent artists film and video work will include short single-screen works by artists including Rose Butler, Samantha Rebello, Jennifer West, Emily Wilczek and others.
Faux Mouvements
Director: Pip Chodorov
2007, France, 12mins., colour, sound
Format: 16mm
Faux Mouvements explores the phi phenomenon of how the brain creates bridges from frame to frame, filling in the gaps, creating the illusion of smooth movement during the black intervals between frames. A film about the illusion of movement.
Treadmill
Director: Rose Butler
2007, UK, 3mins., colour, sound
Format: Pal DV
Reanimated video footage; using tracking and stabilizing software the frame of the image has been manipulated to become the main player of the sequence. The inverted background creates a black box; the relationship of the viewer and the screen is exchanged; the world around my head moves up and down allowing me to stay still. The video loops from slow to fast to slow, forwards and then backwards trapping the viewer within an impenetrable loop.
Tar Pits Film
Director: Jennifer West
2006, USA, 3mins., colour, silent
Format: 16mm transferred to DVD
Courtesy of Vilma Gold, London and Marc Foxx,
Los Angeles.
16mm film negative thrown in the La Brea Tar Pits, ridden over hot tarmac by a motorcycle, soaked in kitty litter, lighter fluid, mayonnaise and body lotion.
Walk (In Progress)
Director: Emily Wilczek
2008, UK, 2mins., colour, sound
Format: Pal DV
Walk (in progress) documents four people on a walk in the French countryside, filmed on out-of-date black and white filmstock with the audio captured on MiniDisc. Emily relinquishes control of the camera, suggesting to the others that they film. The sound and image are edited in sync, with periods of black when the camera isn’t running. Depending on the proximity of the camera operator to “the filmmaker” the mechanised whirr of the camera may be audible.
The Object Which Thinks Us: OBJECT 1
Director: Samantha Rebello
2007, UK, 7mins., colour, sound
Format: 16mm
Utilitarian objects, related to health and hygiene, rendered in unconventional ways. This unsettling film questions the way that we relate to our surroundings by exploring the ‘radical otherness’ of things.
(Mark Webber)
Yeah Film
Director: Jennifer West
2006, USA, 3mins., colour, silent
Format: 16mm transferred to DVD
Courtesy of Vilma Gold, London and Marc Foxx, Los Angeles
16mm film leader soaked in clover, belladonna and poppy tea, inscribed with the word yeah written in beet- juice and Pepto-bismol.
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