The 8th annual Brakhage Center Symposium has been programmed by curator Kathy Geritz and will examine the concept of experimental narrative over three days of screenings and lectures on March 16-18 at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Geritz has pulled together a program in which experimental films explore notions of narrative through diverse means, whether combining with documentary or animated elements, or through nonlinear structure, or through the direct experience of time. As Geritz hopes: “In these different ways, the films presented will challenge and expand our expectations as they push the boundaries of storytelling conventions.”
Some of the filmmakers who will be present at the symposium are animators Stacey Steers and Chris Sullivan, experimental documentary filmmaker Amie Siegel and Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or winner Apichatpong Weerasethakul, who will be screening his 1987 acclaimed feature film Syndromes and a Century and the more recent short film Emerald (2007).
Also, film critic and historian J.
Geritz has pulled together a program in which experimental films explore notions of narrative through diverse means, whether combining with documentary or animated elements, or through nonlinear structure, or through the direct experience of time. As Geritz hopes: “In these different ways, the films presented will challenge and expand our expectations as they push the boundaries of storytelling conventions.”
Some of the filmmakers who will be present at the symposium are animators Stacey Steers and Chris Sullivan, experimental documentary filmmaker Amie Siegel and Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or winner Apichatpong Weerasethakul, who will be screening his 1987 acclaimed feature film Syndromes and a Century and the more recent short film Emerald (2007).
Also, film critic and historian J.
- 3/12/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Dear periodical collectors: Keep your stash away from filmmaker Lewis Klahr, who mines old magazines and comic books to re-purpose for his art. The Wexner Center for the Arts produced the above, embedded video visit to Klahr’s home studio where he discusses and shows off his methods of producing his acclaimed short films. However, part of that method includes digging through piles of reference material and cutting out the retro images to collage in his animation. The video also includes lengthy excerpts from films such as Pony Glass (starring Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen), Altair and more.
Personally, I’m always fascinated by collage filmmakers like Klahr and Craig Baldwin because it’s tough to wrap one’s head around the process of finding what material belongs in which film. Klahr gives us a brief glimpse of this, showing off several cut-outs that may or may not end up...
Personally, I’m always fascinated by collage filmmakers like Klahr and Craig Baldwin because it’s tough to wrap one’s head around the process of finding what material belongs in which film. Klahr gives us a brief glimpse of this, showing off several cut-outs that may or may not end up...
- 7/15/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Filmmaker Lewis Klahr “re-animates” images from mid-twentieth-century advertisements, comic books, and other popular talismans of American popular culture to produce unique narratives. He’s been making films since 1977 and is known for his idiosyncratic experimental films and cutout animations which have been screened extensively in the United States and Europe.
New York’s Museum of Modern Art has purchased Klahr’s films for their permanent collection, and curated three one-person shows with him since 1989. Klahr has also been included in the Biennial Exhibition of the Whitney Museum of American Art (1991 and 1995). His epic cutout animation The Pharaoh’s Belt received a special citation for experimental work from the National Society of Film Critics in 1994.
For the past three years Klahr’s shorts (Altair, Lulu and Pony Glass) have been included in the New York Film Festival. Below you can watch all three including Pony Glass, which is a comic book...
New York’s Museum of Modern Art has purchased Klahr’s films for their permanent collection, and curated three one-person shows with him since 1989. Klahr has also been included in the Biennial Exhibition of the Whitney Museum of American Art (1991 and 1995). His epic cutout animation The Pharaoh’s Belt received a special citation for experimental work from the National Society of Film Critics in 1994.
For the past three years Klahr’s shorts (Altair, Lulu and Pony Glass) have been included in the New York Film Festival. Below you can watch all three including Pony Glass, which is a comic book...
- 4/21/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
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