For many years Mark Street has been making small, observational films of the details and energies of public spaces in urban settings. City blocks, parking spaces and storefronts (and the people who bustle on by them) become abstractions as viewed in reflected rain or through the scratched glass of a bus stop enclosure. These city spaces identify a place but carry the mark of time, and are not divorceable from the moment of their making.
For many years, Jerome Hiler only showed his films in intimate home screenings. He occasionally presented an illustrated talk, “Cinema Before 1300,” exploring his fascination with medieval stained glass. After a presentation at the Harvard Film Archive in 2017, Haden Guest proposed creating a digital version of the slide lecture, which is screened here for the first time.
This fifth edition of SHHH is slightly smaller, more intimate and therefore extra cozy. Last year we went big and loud, with 35mm and techno – this year we’re going for the living room feeling by focusing on 8mm, intimate musical accompaniment and good food.
Dates:
Friday, September 15, 2023 (All day) to Saturday, September 16, 2023 (All day)
Most often used to mean a large number of things MULTIPLICITY can refer to a variety of things- or the variety in things. The experimental documentary films in this programme embrace multiplicity and ideas around profusion, assortment and repetition in thoughtful, surprising and unique ways. Featuring films by
Magdalena Bermudez Curtis Byrnside Miller Justyna Kabala Chloé Galibert-Laîné Lei Lei Roger Horn Duncan Poulton & Sally Beets Hesam Rahmani Najeeb Tarazi The Caring Group Jeff Young
A retrospective of the film work of Erin M McCuskey (AUS), including a three channel screening of the work 'Precious Fragments' in select spaces. In fusing analogue film (recorded and archival), music, dance, literature, theatre and a visual artist's perspective into digital cinematic works, these are films that are at first sensual and delightful, and then resonant with a power poetic and deep.
The first piece in the puzzle of artist Daniel & Clara's Avebury Imaginary project, Notes From a Journey uses images and sounds captured during a journey through the British countryside to Avebury stone circle as the material for an exploration at the edges of human perception and reality. A film that has been described as a “visionary travelogue” and an “experimental folk horror”, Notes from a Journey invites viewers to take a trip through vivid colour fields, foreboding darkness, ancient mysteries and immersive soundscapes.
Mysterious transmissions, long-forgotten video posts, frozen images lodged in the mind, animation erupting from the unconscious – a programme of short artist films exploring the tensions between lived and imagined realities, with films by Adonia Bouchehri, Daniel & Clara, Duncan Poulton, Edwin Rostron.
