VISIONS presents : LOST & FOUND : the videos of Ted Kennedy (NYC) preceded by two films by Allan Brown (MTL) Filmmakers present.
Ted Kennedy is a filmmaker and programmer. Originally from Michigan, he is now based in New York and is currently an MFA candidate at Bard College. His video and installation work has been exhibited at BAM (Brooklyn), Heliopolis (Brooklyn), Media City Film Festival (Windsor, Canada), Microscope Gallery (Brooklyn), Flex: The Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival, the Portland Experimental Film Festival, Onion City Film Festival (Chicago), Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Iowa City Documentary Film Festival, and the Art of the Real film series at Lincoln Center among other venues. In 2011, he co-founded the Studies and Observation Film Series, presenting creative non-fiction and experimental films in Ann Arbor. Most recently he co-programmed the Flaherty NYC 2014 Fall Series. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Union Docs and the Ann Arbor Film Festival.
This series presents films and videos that depict and embody systems of power and ruptures where these systems become visible. The nature of observing and being observed; life within a surveillance state; individual testimony and collective memory; and the role of the artifact as evidence within suppressed histories are ideas and themes that will be explored throughout the six programs.
Last week to see 'Death of a Cameraman', an exhibition organized by Martin Waldmeier and apexart in New York.
'Death of a Cameraman' deals with specific questions surrounding Syria and the politics of image-making. The exhibition is on until October 26th and features works by Broomberg & Chanarin, Harun Farocki, Rabih Mroué, Hrair Sarkissian, Rudolf Steiner. (The New York Times review.)
