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Région Centrale, Michael Snow, film still Leeds City Art Gallery (The Silver Gallery) | 1.30 - 4.30pm
A rare chance to experience one of the most talked about films in the history of experimental cinema. Made using a specially designed machine capable of rotating the camera in all directions from a central point, La Région Centrale is a multi-dimensional study of the landscape surrounding a desolate mountaintop in Quebec. Through a series of tilts and turns of various speeds, the environment is continually re-framed and increasingly disoriented. La Région Centrale is a cosmic and unified meditation on space and time, and a definitive metaphor on vision.
Film: La Région Centrale (Michael Snow, 1970-1, 180 mins, 16mm, sound)
Another Place and Yet the Same, Masha Godovannaya, video still
(Journey to the surface / Modern pastorals)
Co-programmed with Gregory Kurcewicz
Leeds City Art Gallery (The Silver Gallery) | 7 - 9.30pm (with break)
The second installment of The Compendium screenings, bringing together new artists films and videos from around the world. Loosely collected into two short programmes, tonights installment moves from pure abstraction into modern impressions of our pastoral landscape. Traveling from the depth of the screen, to the surface of the filmstrip - across rural Russia, and down the Tyne River towards the sea. Featuring work by Ian Helliwell, Fred Worden, Freya, Wenhua Shi, Philip Sanderson, Samantha Rebello, Arash T Riahi, Ben Rivers, Mat Fleming, Christo Wallers and Masha Godovannaya.
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Deflection Currents Ian Helliwell, 2005, 3 mins 15 secs, video, sound, UK Overloaded layers of colour and refracted light travel along the film strip in this highly charged collision of analogue electronic sound and image. |
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Blue Pole(s) Fred Worden, 2005, 20 mins, video, sound, USA Blue Pole(s) tries hard to up the ante on the notion that film is a visual rather than literary art and that seeing as a perceptual process precedes and models thought. (Fred Worden) |
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After You Were Gone Freya, 2005, 4 mins 19 secs, video, sound, UK Filmed on a broken pixel vision camera - dancing granular fragments of light. |
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Endless Wenhua Shi, 2005, 10 mins, 16mm, sound, USA/China The depth of the image sits on the surface of this film. With a soundtrack like a slow descent, matched with rich painterly craquelured imagery of an undefined, partly revealed ceremony. Arresting and unified. |
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Quadrangle Philip Sanderson, 2005, 2 mins 38 secs, sound, UK Quadrangle is a square dance performed to a quasi-random score of electronic gestures. (Philip Sanderson) |
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The Surface of Residual Matter Samantha Rebello, 2005-6, 15 mins, 16mm, sound on CD, UK Imagery of delicately textured surfaces made as a response to the prepared violin sounds of Angharad Davies. Exploring close-up terrain with a short depth of field and emulating an active and inquisitive way of looking. |
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Undertow Simon Warner, 2005, 4 mins 14 secs, video, sound, UK The interplay of air and light in water is observed revealing beautiful molecular structures. |
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Mississippi Arash T Riahi, 2005, 6 mins, video, sound, Austria An object study where all is not what it seems. As this work unfolds we oscillate between, then rest upon two quite different ways of seeing - from free flowing abstraction to something anchored within the real world. |
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Everything But Me and You Richard Walker, 2005, 5 mins 55 secs, video, sound, UK Richard Walker continues his investigation of our relationship to the natural environment. The artist exposes his innate yearning for a romantic engagement with his surroundings, an act that proves relentlessly impossible. |
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The Bomb With
a Man in His Shoe |
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Boat Action Mat Fleming & Christo Wallers, 2005, 6 mins, 16mm, silent, UK Commissioned for an exhibition on the theme of collaboration, Boat Action sees the filmmakers row a canoe down the deserted Tyne river towards the sea, and take turns to document each other and their adventure. The resulting film is intimate, timeless and strangely nostalgic. |
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Another Place and Yet the Same Masha Godovannaya, 2005, 34 mins, video, sound by Philip Corner and Bill Fontana, Russia A meditation on the Russian landscape. ‘It is my endeavor to stop time for a moment and to look through a different prism at things which have been around us for so long, forgotten and unnoticeable by us for so long. Forest, lake, meadow, sky… Twilight… Moon…’ (Masha Godovannaya) |
All film texts by William Rose and Gregory Kurcewicz unless otherwise indicated.