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Sunday, July 8
Admission: $5, $10 minimum
Showtimes: 8pm
reservations
are recommended
Brooklyn filmmakers Greg
King and Lili Chin join
to present two recent projects, 'Untitled Space Series' (Chin)
and 'Rotating Mirror' (King). Both works are comprised of several
short film 'chapters' intended to be viewed as a set, or film
cycle, where a collective 'narrative of sensation' emerges from
their inter-relationship and formal structure.
Chin's Untitled Space Series
is a collection of films constructed as a meditation on the 21st
century. Each film functions as both a chapter and a song, intertwined
with shades of nostalgia, lamentation, celebration, transformation
and reflection, on the blind technological development of modern
society. A strange yet familiar journey from space to deserted
landscapes creates a lyrical passage from the undiscovered to
the rediscovered.
Total Running Time: 20:00
King's Rotating Mirror is
a combination of contemplative journaling, structural formalism,
chance discovery, and private vocabulary, resulting in a uniquely
cinematic examination of life throughout a single calendar year.
King created the raw footage for the work by filming Super 8 movie
film every day for one year, initially as a means of commemorating
his reaching the age of 33, a number of significance throughout
his life. An element of chance influenced the project, in that
no plans were made beforehand of what would be filmed each day.
The process became a personal experiment of how one might think
'filmically' within the ordinary pace of life.
Each chapter is edited to music and sound pieces by members of
the group Rachel's, with whom King has long collaborated. The
soundtrack possesses an evocative quality uniquely suited to the
contemporary nostalgia and timelessness of the film format used.
The project has received generous support from Angels' Net Foundation,
The Flicker Film Festival, and the Jerome Foundation in the form
of a Media Arts Program Grant.
Total Running Time: 1 hour
More on Rachel's: http://www.rachelsband.com/
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