Date & Time

Friday, March 10, 2017
7:00 PM

Location

Logan Center, Screening Room 201

Admission

free

More Information

http://filmstudiescenter.uchicago.edu/events/2017/re-framings-stitched-collaged

Contact

Film Studies Center

773-702-8596

Description

The five-program series "Troubling the Image: New + Restored Experimental Cinema" features an eclectic and wide-ranging group of works that celebrate the vibrancy of experimental and almost-experimental cinema from near and far, now and then.

Cinema as process, movement as mechanics, image as collage: Untitled Joseph Cornell Film (The Wool Collage) (c. 1940-55) is a previously unknown film by the master collage filmmaker and box builder. Keewatin Dewdney’s The Maltese Cross Movement (1967) takes as its central motif the titular mechanical operation of a film projector. Daniel Barnett’s travelogue-of-sorts The Chinese Typewriter (1978-83) demonstrates his interest in language, poetry, and the construction of meaning. Julie Murray’s untitled (earth) (2015) shuttles through a 35mm film print, blurring the image, freezing frames, and finding possible new meanings. Monica Saviron’s Answer Print (2016) wryly uses only badly faded found images in a work that is more about questions than answers.