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For-Educational-Use-Only: A Series of Video Screenings
Extra credit in the form of 1 blog post will be given per written response to each film screening. Same requirements as the reading responses (it must show that you watched each video shown, and should not be a "report" - you must do more than describe the videos).
Below is the general info and a schedule for this Wednesday's screening.
On Wednesdays this Fall, in room 229 of the UIUC Art and Design building, we'll be screening videos at 7pm. This un-themed series will simply show works that are sometimes hard-to-come-by, or restricted in circulation. Not all works will be screened in their intended format (i.e., works shot for film will be screened as videos) or even in pristine form; the idea is to get at least some experience of these often hard-to-find works out into circulation of our educational communities.
THIS WEDNESDAY, September 5, 2007 - 7pm.
CAMERAS ON THE MOVE: a grab bag of works about places
This week's program will include at least the following works, and probably a couple of others.
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Jem Cohen
THIS IS A HISTORY OF NEW YORK (The Golden Dark Age of Reason)
(1987, Super 8, 23 min.)
A history of New York City from Prehistoric times through the Space Age, composed entirely from documentary street footage. Gorgeous shots of a recent New York that is already long gone.
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Matt McCormick
The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal
16mm/Digital video - 16 minutes - 2001
Emerging from the human psyche and showing characteristics of abstract expressionism, minimalism and Russian constructivism, graffiti removal has secured its place in the history of modern art while being created by artists who are unconscious of their artistic achievements. [Narrated by Miranda July]
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Bill Brown
Buffalo Common
16mm - 2001 - 23min
The Landscape of North Dakota, dismantled missile silos.
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Harrell Fletcher
Sunglints
[digital video, 2000, duration?]
"This is a sequence of digital pictures of sun glints on cars in a parking lot in Minnesota. Sort of like little pictures of the sun."
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Charlemagne Palestine
Island Song 16:02 1976
Strapping a video camera to himself as he drives a motorcycle around an island, Palestine harmonizes with the engine, maniacally repeating the phrase, "Gotta get outta here...gotta get outta here..." His chanting voice merges with the vibrations of the motor, forming an incessant soundtrack that echoes the jarring motion of the camera. Palestine creates a kind of composite instrument in motion as well as an "articulated personal drama". His stated desire for escape is contained by the boundaries of the island. Palestine was a trained cantor, and he often used his moving body and sustained vocalizing to generate a physical and aural intensity in his musical/video performances of this period.
posted by ryan griffis at 4:27 PM Tuesday, September 4, 2007
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