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  • Canyon Cinema Salon: Kerry Laitala and Jonathan Walley on Expanded Cinema and Cinema Expanded

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    Kerry Laitala, Retrospectroscope (1996). From “Timeless Motion,” SOMArts Gallery, SF, 2016

    Artist and filmmaker Kerry Laitala (San Francisco) and cinema scholar Jonathan Walley (Columbus, OH) engage in an illustrated conversation about expanded cinema, including Laitala’s recent 16mm film projection performance Fire Fly EYE (hand-processed 16mm Ektachrome and B&W film, dual projection) and the iconic paracinematic work Retrospectroscope (1996; pictured above). Walley will also discuss his book Cinema Expanded: Avant-Garde Film in the Age of Intermedia, published last year by Oxford University Press, the first comprehensive historical and theoretical account of expanded cinema published since Gene Youngblood’s landmark book Expanded Cinema (1970). 

    Dates: 

    Sunday, January 31, 2021 - 19:00 to Monday, February 1, 2021 - 18:55

  • SFAI Film Department x Canyon: Kerry Laitala

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    Filmmaker, “media archeologist,” and interim chair of the SFAI Film Department Kerry Laitala makes use of decaying cultural relics and antiquated medical technologies to resurrect images and artifacts that have been forgotten. For her screening on April 3, she will present her own work together with haunting, melancholic work by Phil Solomon and the recently departed Barbara Hammer–as well as a special performance of her recent expanded cinema work Chromatic Wheels, with a live score by Jon Leidecker.

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    Wednesday, April 3, 2019 - 19:30

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    San Francisco Art Institute - San Francisco, United States

  • Kerry Laitala: Conjured Pictures

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    Still from "Conjurer's Box" by Kerry Laitala

    Films, video & live performance
    Followed by Q&A w/ the artist

    Microscope is very pleased to welcome San Francisco-based artist Kerry Laitala to the gallery for an evening of her 16mm films, the New York premieres of a new video City Blights as well as a 16mm film performance in three parts titled Astro Trilogy.

    Dates: 

    Monday, July 31, 2017 - 07:30 to Tuesday, August 1, 2017 - 08:55

    Venue: 

    Microscope Gallery - New York, Estados Unidos

  • Perpetual Motion

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    Perpetual Motion is the most comprehensive convergence of international performance cinema practitioners ever seen in the Bay Area. Presented over seven evenings September 16–December 7, 2016, with all artists performing in person, this series is curated by San Francisco Cinematheque and will be presented at Gray Area’s historic Grand Theater, located in San Francisco’s Mission District.

    Featured artists include the return of legendary experimental filmmaker Ken Jacobs (NYC), rising Montréal duo Le Révélateur (video artist Sabrina Ratté & musician Roger Tellier-Craig, of Fly Pan AM and formerly Godspeed You! Black Emperor) and in a rare North American appearance, the spectacular Trinchera Ensamble film-performance collective from Mexico City.

    Dates: 

    Friday, September 16, 2016 - 20:00 to Saturday, September 17, 2016 - 19:55
    Saturday, September 17, 2016 - 20:00 to Sunday, September 18, 2016 - 19:55
    Tuesday, October 11, 2016 - 20:00 to Wednesday, October 12, 2016 - 19:55
    Wednesday, October 26, 2016 - 20:00 to Thursday, October 27, 2016 - 19:55
    Wednesday, November 9, 2016 - 20:00 to Thursday, November 10, 2016 - 19:55
    Tuesday, November 22, 2016 - 20:00 to Wednesday, November 23, 2016 - 19:55
    Wednesday, December 7, 2016 - 20:00 to Thursday, December 8, 2016 - 19:55

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    Gray Area / Grand Theater - San Francisco, United States

  • First Thought, Best Thought: A Compendium of Camera Roll Films

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    Eye Music in Red Major (Marie Menken, 1961)

    Using a single hundred-foot roll of 16mm film to create an unedited camera-roll film -- fresh from the lab and onto the screen -- has a certain appeal to me. Partly it’s the practical aspect of DIY efficacy that comes with circumventing the costly steps of post-production. With editing there is something diluted from this raw power of the pure, unadulterated footage, no matter how masterfully the material is pruned and refashioned. Perhaps the phrase of Allen Ginsberg, Chogyam Trungpa, and others, “First thought, best thought” expresses this energy present in the camera-roll film?

    Dates: 

    Friday, December 4, 2015 - 19:00 to Saturday, December 5, 2015 - 18:55

    Venue: 

    Filmmakers Co-op - New York, United States

  • Gravity Spells: Bay Area New Music and Expanded Cinema Art

    Produced by Bay Area filmmaker and sound artist John Davis in conjunction with a fellowship and residency at the Kala Art Institute in Berkeley CA, this limited edition of 100 includes two hand-silkscreened gatefold LPs and four silkscreened DVDs of original film and music, plus a 50-page booklet of writing and images bound in a hand letterpressed cover. The project was conceived to publicly showcase emerging and established strains of expanded cinema and music collaboration in the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as to create a physical document that captured that energy.

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  • Speaking Directly: Oral Histories of the Moving Image

    While known primarily as an exhibitor of artist-made films, San Francisco Cinematheque has, throughout its history, created opportunities for talking and writing about the challenging and lively work that it showcases. Cinematheque's “occasional” journal Cinematograph is back, after a long hiatus, with an illuminating book-length issue, comprised of extensive conversations with filmmakers, artists, curators, and scholars. Titled Cinematograph 7: Speaking Directly—Oral Histories of the Moving Image, it presents recent discussions with Coleen Fitzgibbon, Narcisa Hirsch, Jim Jennings, Chris Kennedy, Kerry Laitala, Annette Michelson, Tomonari Nishikawa, Elizabeth Price, Ben Rivers and Kidlat Tahimik. Interviewers include Erika Balsom, Kathy Geritz, Sandra Gibson, Aily Nash, Luis Recoder, Lucy Reynolds, Jonathan Walley and Mark Webber. The issue also has never-before-published excerpts from Q&A sessions with Peter Hutton, George Kuchar, Owen Land and Warren Sonbert, drawn from Cinematheque's archive of historical artifacts and documentation. 

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    Average: 3.7 (3 votes)

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  • Light Bleeding: Sally Golding, Kerry Laitala & Lynn Loo

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    Light Bleeding: Sally Golding, Kerry Laitala & Lynn LooLight Bleeding: Sally Golding, Kerry Laitala & Lynn Loo
    Friday October 8th, 20h
    Cafe OTO, 18 - 22 Ashwin street, Dalston, London E8 3DL
    Tickets : £5 adv. / £6

    Rare embodied beams from mistresses of alchemical projection performance. Laitala, Loo and Golding deconstruct cinematic materials and apparatus, slipping between materialist investigation, sculptural forms, and bodily intervention. Cracked cinema for darkroom compositions, light bleed, contorted projection sports, dismembered narrative, whimsical instructional and wanton optics.

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  • The Horse Hospital - Kerry Laitala: Mercurial Cinema

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    Hallowed (Kerry Laitala, 2002)The Horse Hospital - Kerry Laitala: Mercurial Cinema
    Friday September 24, doors 19:30h, £5
    The Horse Hospital
    Colonnade, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 1JD, UK

    San Francisco filmmaker Kerry Laitala is a gem of the cinematic underworld. Her long engagement with the avant garde processes of cinema position her as one of the most informed process-based artists workingwithin the medium. Harnessing glimmering, fluorescing light, macabre artefacts and an array of abandoned filmic devices and conventions, her films are a deep transgression into the al/chemical side of cinema. The films of Kerry Laitala evoke a glowing world in which spirits, memories and mouldering and artefacts swirl into feverish dreams recalling gothic conditions of poetry and decay. Seeming to hover on the borders of life and death, madness and sanity, these haunting alchemical films raise the dead from long slumbers to become luminous phantoms of flickering cinema.– Steve Polta, SF Cinematheque “Kerry Laitala takes eye-popping visual phenomena and turns it into refined artistry, in a body of work that is playful, visually articulate and a loving homage to the fundamental magic of cinema.”

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