Oporto apresenta #24: Aleph
Wednesday, June 22, 2011, 22:30h
Oporto, Salvador Correia de Sá, 42, 2 frente, 1200-399 Lisboa
"Aleph" by Wallace Berman
16mm film, color,silent, loop, 1956-1966
Jorge Luis Borges describes the Aleph as a converging point of infinitude and simultaneous space, that he saw materialized on the 19th step of a staircase in an old building. In his description he mentions that this strange phenomenon can appear in other specific places.
Oporto is fortunate to have the perfect conditions to host once again an Aleph.The present Aleph is a film by the American assemblage artist and publisher Wallace Berman. This film, done during a period of 10 years, is a concentrated poetic meditation on his time, life, influences and work. Structured on the Kabbalah, "Aleph" is simultaneously a cryptic beat trip into infinite time and space.
"into the light of the endless loop" - Alexandre Estrela