Film screening by Ariana Gerstein

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Promedio: 3.8 (5 votos)

Experimental filmmaker Ariana Gerstein will present a program of works in film and time assemblages by way of desktop scanners.

Programme:

- Close the Lid- 05:00
:Home, Document, Scan

- Performance for Perfection 13:27
The Perfection 1200 is a 14 + year old photo document scanner. It renders an image over time, from right to left, not like the camera’s instant frame. As the scanner arm moves beneath the glass surface, it emits it’s own light which bounces off of the subject and returns information onto it’s CCDs. One scan, depending on resolution used, can take 10 to 20 seconds or more. As the actor performs for the scanner, he does so in near silence, struggling with each isolated pose and breath for the duration. Fixed are the traces of the movements of life. The animation process rebuilds and unfixes the construction during play, recombined with breath and sound. Through this artificial deconstruction and reconstruction process, there is a reflection of life and art, deeply felt. Don Boros’s double speaks with his voice, about Beckett, acting, of “living truthfully, under imaginary circumstances”. 

- Glass Houses mouses 08:00
An interview is conducted exploring methods used to facilitate a real research project whose aim it is to capture and analyze human micro-expressions for use by a variety of industries (including lie detection and entertainment/animation). But the particular research or the use of human subjects is really just a point of departure. This film takes a moment to touch on our use of technology and vice versa.

The images in the film are created in three ways; 1. by scanning the actor and two other support figures interacting with the scanner glass and each other, one frame at a time 2. By filming the actor revealed by the light of the scanner as he is being scanned. (Each light pass represents a frame of the reanimated scanner image) 3. through line drawings and smears which trace or mark points of contact between the actor and the scanner glass.

- Traces with Elikem -07:00
Traces performed and captured by scanner and monitor surfaces. Other surfaces include paper and film. Light reflects and passes through, layers slide past and sometimes meet, punctuated by sounds vibrating and percussive. With the participation of Samuel Elikem Kwame Nyamuame, Ph.D. Visiting Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology and Dance Departments of Music, Theater (Dance) & Africana Studies

- UpCycles 07:00
It began with super 8 film shot at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago and 16mm shot from the El train and along lake Michigan. Images were thought through as they were re-worked by optical printing (a process of re-shooting film back onto film one frame at a time) and hand chemical processing. Film cut every frame or two (would never run through a projector) were stepped up and down along the way (super 8 onto 16mm onto 35mm and back down to 16mm). The film remained as film for years. Recently it was taken to a new level by optical printing with a digital camera on a JK printer, also one frame at a time. It was rethought, retimed with a different screen ratio and sound

 - Skin in the Game 05:00
An editing process that is extremely non- linear. Going from footage from Cycles and found footage which has been cut, painted, turned into a glass mounted collage, re-scanned, animated, edited from analog to digital.

Local: 

Jerome Liebling Center - Amherst, Estados Unidos

Fechas: 

De Jueves, Octubre 4, 2018 - 19:00 hasta Viernes, Octubre 5, 2018 - 18:55

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Fechas: 

De Jueves, Octubre 4, 2018 - 19:00 hasta Viernes, Octubre 5, 2018 - 18:55
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    Estados Unidos
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