DIM Cinema: Peter Hutton, Near & Far (Program 1) [1]
DIM Cinema pays tribute to Peter Hutton, the influential American filmmaker and educator who died last June. Cahiers du cinéma described his body of work as radical and singular: “A sort of primitive documentary, silent, which celebrates the beauty of the world without forgetting to observe people, the conditions they live and work under.”
Program One: Near- Boston Fire | 1979. 8 min.- New York Near Sleep for Saskia | 1972. 10 min.- New York Portrait, Chapter II | 1979. 16 min.- New York Portrait, Chapter III | 1981. 16 min.- Landscape (for Manon) | 1987. 12 min.
Screening format: 16mm, silent.
“Hutton's black-and-white haikus are an exquisite distillation of the cinematic eye. The limitations imposed — no colour, no sound, no movement (except from a vehicle not directly propelled by the filmmaker), no direct cuts since the images are born and die in black — ironically entail an ultimate freedom of the imagination ... If pleasure can disturb, Hutton’s ploys emerge in full focus. These materializing then evaporating images don’t ignite, but conjure strains of fleeting panoramas of detached bemusement. More than mere photography, Hutton’s contained-with-in-the-frame juxtapositions are filmic explorations of the benign and the tragic” (Warren Sonbert)
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DIM Cinema [4]
An ongoing series curated by Michèle Smith, DIM Cinema [6]presents Canadian and international moving images in dialogue with the cinema. Screenings are held monthly at The Cinematheque [7] on the unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and Səl̓ílwətaʔ (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations.The name of the series is inspired by the diffused Vancouver sky, the darkness of the cinema, and a quote from James Broughton's Making Light of It (1992): “Movie images are dim reflections of the beauty and ferocity in mankind.”