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Thursday,
May 25
In the grand tradition of the Cartesian and chromosomal
construct, Lynne
Sachs will take on the X axis video screens in dialogue
with Mark
Street's Ys. Where will we all end up? What depths
and heights await us? Anxiety, serenity and awe mingle and mix
as we watch these ephemeral images. What looks like a tree can
quickly turn into a train or telephone pole or an angry bowl of
soup, as our audience hangs on for dear life. Lynne creates theatrical
gestures and tableaux using hands, toys, a plate of cherry pie,
and a miniature of the Empire State Building (to name a few of
the hundreds of objects). Mark produces photochemically conjured
flowers, fishing tackle, and shards of found film -- all flying
by at a variety of speeds in the grand tradition of a Man Ray
print. His Trailer Trash images (culled from theatrical movie
trailers) hold Hollywood up to a funhouse mirror. Mark and Lynne,
filmmakers from Brooklyn, negotiate the thin line between representation
and abstraction in each second of this moving image extravaganza.
WHO WE ARE…
In her moving image work, Lynne Sachs tries to
expose the limitations of verbal language by complementing it
with complex emotional and visual imagery. From Memphis to San
Francisco to Baltimore to New York, her experimental documentary
films, videos, installations and web projects push the borders
between genres, discourses, radicalized identities, psychic states
and nations.
Mark Street has been making abstract films for
the last 20 years. The images toy with discernibility and burst
through psychological boundaries with rapid fire colors and shapes
that show us an unfamiliar, topsy turvy world of pulsating wonderment.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, but then other times it turns
into a seashell or a trapdoor, and the ground shifts under us
as we’re led into new and barely habitable visual terrain.
Maya and Noa Street-Sachs, Mark
and Lynne’s daughters, will be on hand to assist their parents
in this sound/image adventure...
Thursday, May 25
Admission: $5
Showtimes: 7:30pm and 10:00pm
reservations
are recommended
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