American Originals Now: Fred Worden
December 11 & 17, 16:30h
National Gallery of Art
Fourth Street and Constitution Ave., NW, 20565 Washington DC

Since the 1970s, Fred Worden has been making experimental films primarily to examine "how a stream of still pictures passing through a projector at a speed meant to overwhelm the eyes might be harnessed to purposes other than representation or naturalism." With wholehearted revelry in cinematic illusion and a commitment to kinetic abstractions, he produces short films and digital videos that draw attention to subjective perceptual play through the manipulation of visual phenomena. Assistant professor of art at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Worden has produced work exhibited at festivals and venues in Paris, Hong Kong, Rotterdam, London, New York, and Toronto.

Oporto apresenta #26: Bleu Shut
Friday, November 18, 2011, 22:30h
Oporto, Salvador Correia de Sá, 42, 2 frente, 1200-399 Lisboa

"Bleu Shut" by Robert Nelson
16mm film, color, sound, 33', 1970

Robert Nelson is a celebrated film-maker that turned down the glories of the avant-garde for the joys of backyard projectionism. His films are ironic constructions, open questions made for the pleasures of gathering. “Bleu Shut” fits right in the so-called tradition of participatory-film. The film is an experiment built around a guessing game, where the act of “seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees”. *

“On the cognitive mechanisms of boat-naming and its effect on the uncertainties of the real.” - Alexandre Estrela

*title of book by Robert Irwin