Evento

Open Ears & Wide Eyes: An Array of Experimental Cinema curated by Andrew Lampert

Andrew Lampert is at the forefront of a new generation of artists engaging with film, video and performance, revisiting and extending the dialogue around an expanded definition of cinema. Utilizing everything from 8mm film to digital projections, Lampert pursues the synergy between artist, art, and audience in a public space, especially as it pertains to cinema. He brings unscripted and chance elements into cinemas veneer of control, and often works with found material. Originally from St. Louis, he currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. His work has been shown at the 2006 Whitney Biennial; The Getty Museum, and the British Film Institute. In addition to his work as an interdisciplinary artist, he was the Film Archivist at Anthology Film Archives in New York for over a decade, and in 2016 edited a book on Beatnik artist/avant-garde filmmaker, Harry Smith.

For this event, Lampert will curate a selection of films from the 1950s to present day, which incorporate or work heavily influenced by the experimental music world.

Film program:

Robert Breer
FIST FIGHT
1964, 11 minutes, 16mm, color, sound.

Joan Logue ( ideoportrait.net )
30 SECOND SPOTS: NEW YORK
1984, 14:45 minutes, video, color, sound.

Steina and Woody Vasulka ( vasulka.org )
DON CHERRY
1970, 19:20 minutes, video

Paul Clipson
LIGHT YEAR
2013, 10 minutes, 16mm, color, sound. Music by Tashi Wada featuring cellists Charles Curtis and Judith Hamann.

Abigail Child
MERCY
1989, 10 minutes, 16mm, color, sound. Featuring vocals by Shelley Hirsch

Robert Fenz
VERTICAL AIR1996, 28 minutes, 16mm, black and white, sound. Score composed and performed by Wadada Leo Smith.