[Nettime-nl] SMART Cinema | free video program May 2003

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SMART Project Space | 1e Constantijn Huygensstraat 20, Amsterdam, +31 (0)20 427 5951  
A Thinly Veiled Threat (Undermining the Overview, Part 3)


Every Sunday and Wednesday at 17.00 SMART Project Space presents free video programs in Smart Cinema.  This video program accompanies the exhibition, SUB REAL |  April 5 - May 25, 2003

Sunday 4th May & Wednesday 7th May
Jennifer Tee | Worm (Hit Them Where They Least Expect It) (2000/NL/3 min.)  Something is coming and it will be here soon.

Atsushi Ogata | Aki No Tawamure (1992/Japan/6 min. 30)  The forward rush over the endlessly transforming ground.

Giusi Campisi | Nave Night Blue (2000/Itlay/3 min.)  Certain splits in the viewing of things to account for.

Yoshinao Satoh | Selected Works, Variations for Movements (2002/Japan/15 min.)  Satoh restlessly turns all orientation on its head with his particular brand of visual music. Satoh is a master at playing the surface against itself.

Jean Painleve | Phase Transitions in Liquid Crystals (1965/France/6 min.)  Painleve produces pure abstraction from nature and joins it to a rarefied sound score by Francois de Roubaix. 

Etant Donnes | Two works: Royaume (1991/France/21 min.), Blue (1994/France/ 37 min.)  The duo of Etant Donnes are as renowned for their sound and music works as for their own hybrid experimental cinema which has an intense aural component while flexing the indelible surfaces of a primordially abstracted imagery.

Rene Beekman | Silent Garden (1992/NL/27 min.)  Another work casting a new relationship between sound and imagery, between music and the visual, between elements of nature and pure abstraction.



Sunday 11th May & Wednesday 14th May

Pierre Yves Clouin | Put Your Hands On Your Head (1997/France/3 min.)  This should inspire a certain amount of thought.

Oliver Held | Spring (2002/Germany/7 min.)  Here is a work which is certainly spring wound as it threatens to come undone in any number of associative ways.

Julius Sumner Miller | On Atmospheric Pressure (1972/USA/15 min.)  Professor Miller treats us to another edifying performance that always engages us with the threat of the awesome.

Leslie Thornton | Peggy and Fred in Hell (2002/USA/100 min.)  What may be the final version of Thornton's magnum opus that concerns two youngsters and the general threat to the consciousness of the human race.

Joelle Turlinckx | Fable de Plage (1999/Belgium/23 min. 14)  The last threat we have in store for you is sent out to sea.



Counter Intelligence, part 1: Too Smart by Half The Show Down of the Sub-Real: None Shall Escape 

Friday 9th May & Friday 16th May

The contemporary television commercial becomes cagier in its attempts to outwit us by absorbing each new crack and subversion in the cultural edifice and preparing an artful decoy to our heightened awareness and rueful resistance. The absorption of cynicism, high and low art and new strategies of maintaining the embattled surface of the spectacle are employed in the very post modern art of the commercial. This program will draw from a wide range of very accomplished and witty television commercials from a variety of European countries produced over the last years. 

 

A Certain Dislocation (Undermining the Overview, part 4) 

This video program accompanies the exhibition, INTO THE BREACH |  Opening Saturday May 31, 2003 at 21:00. exhibition runs from Sunday June 1 until Sunday July 6, 2003

Sunday 18th May & Wednesday 21th May
Steina Vasulka | In the Land of the Elevator Girls (1989/US/4 min.)  We are taken on a whirlwind tour of transitional spaces courtesy of the white gloved hands that usher you into another realm.

Hisao | Ihara Sora (2002/Japan/7 min.)  The disorientation of the daily commute and the abstraction of the commuters themselves.

Shalom Gorewitz | Dissonant Landscapes: Blue Swee, Run, Beggar's Prayer, Black Fire (1985/US/15 min.)  Four distinct works, one about the American presence in Grenada, another using a Lacanian model for language structure, another following a blind beggar in Morocco while the last conflates fire with video raster while religious symbols and political statements are subsumed in the landscape.

Dara Birnbaum | Damnation of Faust: Evocation (1984/US/10 min.)  A prologue for a much longer work: Observations about alienation and identity are posed against the raucous tussle of youths in the playground.

Vladimir Oseledchik | This Is How We Live (1987/Soviet Union/30 min.)  'They turn us into robots. We can't think like we want.' The alienation of the next generation right down to a proposed program for reconstructing society by forced sterilization.

Pam Kray | Ghost Sonata (1986/US/5 min.)  Moving in the house and unpacking the drama right away leads to curious reallignments and some reshuffling.

Frank Ragano | Midway Mind (2000/US/3 min.)  The solitary dweller and the omnipresent outside world which recasts his position.

Ecila Stims | Fast Forward (2003/NL/5 min.)  The parallel life of New York subway riders and the t(er)ain they inhabit.

Joseph Rucker and Willard van der Heer | With Byrd at the South Pole: the Story of Little America (1930/US/82 min.)  Byrd's establishment of Little America and his spectacular first flight over the South Pole, part publicity stunt, part scientific milestone marked the end of an era. Rucker and van der Heer's rarely seen work is a visual marvel.



Sunday 25th May & Wednesday 28th May

Guillermo Varela | Recuerdos de Flores Muertas (1982/Mexico/7 min.)  The final adjustments: worn cracked cemetary headstones and dead flowers.

Juan Downey | The Motherland (1987/Chile/7 min.)  A symbolic parable is intercut with news actualities of the Pinochet regieme in Chile.

Tatyana Chubakova | Homecoming (1987/Soviet Union/17 min.)  Veterans of the Soviet operations in Afghanistan come home with unresolved feelings. 

Jem Cohen | This is a History of New York (the Golden Dark Age of Reason) (1987/US/23 min.)  Images of New York people and architecture are slowed and repeated and treated as if they represented pivotal periods in the book of history.

Jayce Salloum | This is Not Beirut (1994/Lebanon-Canada/49 min.)  An artist from both worlds comes to terms with misrepresentations of Beirut from both the perspective of the west and the middle east.

Victor Masayesva Siskyavi | The Place of Chasms (1989/US/30 min.)  A Hopi artist here concerns himself with the Hopi traditions and the western appropriations of artifacts in the name of science, anthropology and art. A group of school children go on a field trip to the Smithsonian while a Hopi grandmother instructs her grand-daughter with another story.

Steina Vasulka | Lilith (1987/US/9 min.)  The eternal disturbing of the soul, the displacing of the body and the voice, the making of a way through the wilderness.

Martine Attille | Dreaming Rivers (1988/UK/26 min.)  A mother is on her deathbed in a dream state, contemplating her isolation in England the life she left behind in St. Lucia. She explains to her three children: 'Sometimes your dreams depend on what's available. or what's not available.'

The program 'A Certain Dislocation', curated in association with the exhibition Ínto the Breach will be continued throughout the month of June.

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