Personal Cinema Series - Lili White

Saturday, June 5th 2010, 20-22h
Millennium Film Workshop
66 East 4th Street, New York, USA

This program features several new works made by Lili White since her last program at Millennium in 2007.
“My thing was always a layered image. In 2008, concurrent fractured frames of video tape were explored. In 2009, different public places, along with their historic and mythic events blended into a collective dreamscape. The idea was to evince the ‘whole’ of ‘it,’ like how ALL the facets form a diamond and is fueled more on a ‘why’ rather than a ‘how.’ The work is located more on the ‘horizontal’–not necessarily one that is linear–but one that stretches out in different directions, like the tentacles of an octopus.” - L.W.
On The future is you: “Like a lithographer’s velvety mezzotint, this monochromic future of molten metal features New York City’s downtown streets after the 9/11 disaster. ‘Seemingly’ among city and forest, the landscape study moves back and forth between Nature’s trees and man’s canyons of steel, showing neither but both. A chromium sound heard–doubled and abstracted–accompanying anxiety and serenity inside us. Exploring the gradient view the focus is on small movement like amoebas in a primordial soup; eventually stretching our attention to the larger matrix where we all reside.” - L.W.

Program:
- Reverie (20½ min., 2009)
- Cracked (3½ min., 2008)
- The future is you (9 min., 2008)
- S/tr:w/eet walk (19 min., 2009)
- Turquoise beads (38 min., 2009)

Admission: $8 / $6 members

Live Film! Jack Smith!
Friday, May 28th, 20:00h
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre
12 Alexander St., Toronto, Canada
Pay-What-You-Can Admission

For five days last fall, the Arsenal Institute for Film and Video Art staged the largest Jack Smith gathering in history, bringing scholars, performers and filmmakers to Berlin to participate. New works were commissioned and past collaborators returned to celebrate Arsenal's acquisition of some of Smith's recently restored prints.

Jack Smith, performer, photographer and filmmaker is best known for his film Flaming Creatures, a stunning vision of exoticized gender and sexual transgression. His lasting influence in the art world is remarkable and Inside Out is proud to bring a piece of this very important project to Toronto.

Co-presented by LIFT, Arsenal, The Images Festival and Goethe-Institut Toronto.

Featuring films, performances or talks by Jack Smith, Pauline Boudry (Berlin), Renate Lorenz (Berlin), Oliver Husain (Toronto), Deirdre Logue (Toronto) and Stefanie Schulte Strathaus (Berlin).

This multidisciplinary event will be followed by a panel discussion.