APPARITIONS by Alex MacKenzie

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Western Front and Iris Film Collective co-present Alex MacKenzie's APPARITIONS, his latest two-projector 16mm expanded cinema work.

Inspired by early stereo imaging and the clash and collusion of socioeconomic forces, this suite of works seeks to dismantle cinematic codes while foregrounding projector and light as sculpture: a conscious corruption and interference of the apparatus to evoke the unexpected, reshaping representation into the realm of material and space. Using colour gels, masking, lens interference and projector movement in tandem with an exploration of binocular disparity, perspective, patterning and the film surface itself, APPARITIONS explores the transitional space between image and abstraction, nature and culture.

 


APPARITIONS TRAILER from Alex MacKenzie on Vimeo.

Alex MacKenzie is a Vancouver-based media artist working primarily with 16mm analog film equipment and hand processed imagery. He creates works of expanded cinema, light projection installation, and projector performance. Often employing multiple projections and hand manipulated images, MacKenzie’s films explore the precarious nature of the cinematic image and apparatus. His work has screened at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, the EXiS Experimental Film Festival in Seoul, Lightcone in Paris, Kino Arsenal in Berlin and many other festivals and art spaces worldwide. Alex was the founder and curator of the Edison Electric Gallery of Moving Images, the Blinding Light!! Cinema and the Vancouver Underground Film Festival. He was an artist in residence at Atelier MTK in Grenobles France, the Struts Gallery/Faucet Media in New Brunswick, Cineworks’ Analog Film Annex in Vancouver and Daimon in Gatineau. Alex co-edited Damp: Contemporary Vancouver Media Art (Anvil Press 2008), and interviewed David Rimmer for Loop, Print, Fade + Flicker: David Rimmer’s Moving Images (Anvil Press 2009). Commissions include Portal, (Situated Cinema WNDX Winnipeg 2012), Auroratone: Digitalis (FilmPop Montreal 2012), The Film That Buys The Cinema (Cube Bristol 2013) and Hyborian Witch (Wrong Wave/Kensington Gore 2013). Alex is a founding member of the Iris Film Collective in Vancouver.

Local: 

Western Front - Vancouver, Canadá

Fechas: 

De Jueves, Febrero 16, 2017 - 19:00 hasta Viernes, Febrero 17, 2017 - 18:55

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Fechas: 

De Jueves, Febrero 16, 2017 - 19:00 hasta Viernes, Febrero 17, 2017 - 18:55

Local: 

  • 303 East 8th Avenue
    Vancouver, British Columbia
    Canadá
    49° 15' 48.708" N, 123° 5' 55.032" W