BLOWING THE TRUMPET TO THE TULIPS
Film + Video Series

Thursday, October 25, 7pm
Ontario Hall

Pure Film & Video

All My Life by Bruce Baillie, USA, 1966, 16mm, 3 minutes
Mothlight by Stan Brakhage, USA, 1963, 16mm, 5 minutes
Surfacing on the Thames by David Rimmer, Canada, 1970, 16mm, 9 minutes
Gannet Burial by Tom Sherman, USA, 1999, video, 4 minutes
Inertia by Tadesu Takamine, Japan, 1999, video, 3 minutes
Manipuler son corps by Laetitia Bourget, Canada, 1999, video, 4 minutes
Coupling by Stan Brakhage, USA, 1999, 16mm, 4.5 minutes
trace 1.1 by Michelle Kasprzak, Canada, 2001, video, 5.5 minutes
Morphology of Desire by Robert Arnold, USA, 1998, video, 5 minutes
ASCII Alphabet by Dorion Berg, Canada, 1999, video, 5.5 minutes
98.3KHz (Bridge at Electrical Storm) by Al Razutis, Canada, 1974,16mm, 8 minutes
Vertige by Isabelle Hayeur, Canada, 2000, video, 11 minutes
The 400 series: cheatin' heart by Leslie Peters, Canada, 1999, video, 3 minutes

Programme running time: 71 minutes

The notion of pure film & video is one that privileges the medium above all else‹form above content, technique above theme. There is a romance here, with technology and with possibility. From the blatant phallocentrism of Tadesu Takamine's ode to high-speed technology and even to Isabelle Hayuer's lament to the past and present of a strip mine, there is a sense of the wonders of what the medium can do. With films, images are handprocessed, handpainted, stained, step-printed and even covered with foreign objects. With video, they are rapidly edited, superimposed and the signals are manipulated. And with the computer, programmes are created to morph images, develop binaries, and even trace out a path for the artist to follow.

Better loving through wires & chemistry...

-- Chris Kennedy

See more details on Blowing the Trumpet to the Tulips, an exchange on experimental media, October 19 - 21, 2001.

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