Andrew Noren (nacido en 1943, Santa Fe, New Mexico) ha trabajado en el arte de la imagen en movimiento durante más de cuarenta años, tiempo en el que se ha convertido en uno de los maestros del cine en la manipulación de la luz y la sombra. Sus filmes combinan estos elementos en una absorbente metafísica de luminosidad y sombría oscuridad, una música visual de delicia y poderosa quinesis, revelando y regocijándose en la fantasmal naturaleza de las apariencias. Esta retrospectiva del MoMA compuesta de seis obras en cicno programas, se inicia con Charmed Particles, el filme que cerró la retrospectiva celebrada en 1981, Of Light and Texture.
Andrew Noren: What the Light Was Like
October 21, 2009–October 25, 2009
Charmed Particles
1978. USA. Directed by Andrew Noren. “Charmed Particles is a physics term ... it describes the point at which energy becomes matter, intangible ‘nothing’ becoming, somehow, ‘something.’ What lies at the heart of each atom is nothing ... the beast at the heart of the labyrinth ... and from that nothing comes the something we call the world. Being emanates from nothing, and vice versa. Oldest question in the world: ‘Why is there something rather than nothing?’” (Andrew Noren). "In Noren's alchemy of light and living, it is the light which has become 'real' and the flesh illusory. In his luminous universe, reminiscent of Plato's cave, light is the essence, life an illusory play of shadows" (Lindley Hanlon, Film Culture). New 16mm print. 63 min.
Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009, 5:00 pm, T2
Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009, 5:00 pm, T2
Imaginary Light
1995. USA. Directed by Andrew Noren. “Intuitive conjuring and orchestration of retinal phantoms, refined by abstraction into music for light and mind. Light, both wave and particle, alive and moving, making shadow and, therefore, time” (Andrew Noren). 32 min.
Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009, 5:00 pm, Theater 2, T2
Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009, 5:00 pm, Theater 2, T2
Aberration of Starlight
2008. USA. Directed by Andrew Noren. Noren’s most recent work is a complex visual symphony, playing resounding variations on sight, light and shadow, time, and spatial illusion. “’Use your own light, and return to the source of light. This is called “practicing eternity” (Lao-Tsu). So ... Splendor Solis ... in spades. What the light was like” (Andrew Noren). 91 min.
Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009, 7:00 pm, Theater 2, T2 *Andrew Noren will introduce this screening
Sunday, Oct. 25, 2009, 1:00 pm, Theater 2, T2
The Lighted Field
1987. USA. Directed by Andrew Noren. “Ghost pictures from the ‘other world,’ which is this world. The Ghost in love, at work, at play with bright companions in the Lighted Field, mortality lurking in the shadows. Flutter of phantoms, trick of light, sleight of eye” (Andrew Noren). “Noren seems to have discovered his own law of physics ... his camera dematerializes the world into a pure rush of energy” (J. Hoberman, The Village Voice). New 16mm print. Silent. 62 min.
Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009, 7:00 pm, Theater 2, T2
Saturday, Oct. 24, 2009, 3:00 pm, Theater 2, T2
Time Being
2001. USA. Directed by Andrew Noren. “Music for light and mind. Cinema isn’t materials... it’s refined, imaginative seeing ... darkness made visible. It existed long before modern devices, since the first opening of the first animal eyelid ... scene one, take one. Light creates mind” (Andrew Noren). 62 min.
Friday, Oct. 23, 2009, 5:00 pm, Theater 2, T2
Saturday, Oct. 24, 2009, 4:30 pm, Theater 2, T2
Free to Go
2003. USA. Directed by Andrew Noren. “Energy pictures; mindful kinesis. Light and shadow vigorously conjoin, conjuring delusion of depth and duration, fiction of space and time. The fool’s paradise of the illusory window ... (remember: flutter of phantoms, trick of the light) ... is savored and shattered and seen for what it is” (Andrew Noren). Silent. 62 min.
Friday, Oct. 23, 2009, 7:00 pm, Theater 2, T2
Saturday, Oct. 24, 2009, 6:00 pm, Theater 2, T2
Enlaces relacionados:
- Andrew Noren interview with Laurence Kardish
- Andrew Noren interview in A Critical Cinema 2
