Screen Off

May 22, 2014

Video art happy hour at 7pm
Screen Off at 8pm
Guest curator Vera Petukhova

Film/Video. Experimental/Avant-garde. Exhibition/Installation. Cinema/Gallery.

What is the difference between video art and experimental film?

Surprisingly, Yahoo does not have the definitive answer, perhaps because trying to confine these two cinematic 'forms' to fixed terms is as fraught as the historical relationship between film and video. 

In this Screen Off, we explore the intertwined historical trajectories of experimental film and video art, and expose the tensions that have emerged from attempts to define the two forms. By juxtaposing projections of 16mm experimental films with new video art, we pit the stylistic legacies of the likes of Bruce Conner and Stan Brakhage against their 2014 descendants (or in some cases, opponents). New video art dissects the principles of Bart Simpson, emojis, chess games, memory's surreal dimensions, culture collisions and visual music. 

Video art program

Clint Enns - Toronto, Ontario
A Knights Walk / 11:48 / 2014 

Joe Waine - Brooklyn, New York
**Music Credit: Mega Bog - Seattle, WA
TP-89 / 1:32 / 2014

Mikey Peterson - Chicago, Illinois
Slip Away / 2:34 / 2014

David & Tara Gladden - Salisbury, Maryland
Ylla Dreams / 7:20 / 2014

Matthew Williamson - Ottawa, Ontario
Everything is Cool / 9:10 / 2014

Cara Rose DeFabio - San Francisco, California
Game of Phones / 1:45 / 2014

 

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Happy hour program

Benjamin Markus - Seattle, Washington
Rust on Film / 2:50 / 2014

Cristine Brache -  Guangzhou, China
Justin Love Promo Vid / 1:49 / 2013

Mauri Lehtonen - Turku, Finalnd
Physical Examination / 3:25 / 2012 

Adrienne Matheuszik - Ottawa, Ontrario
Ecstasy / 3:06 / 2014

Sandra Araújo - Porto Portugal 
**Music Credit: Debmaster - Berlin, Germany
Tape Loading Error / 2:55 / 2012

Benjamin Grosser - Urbana, Illinois
Computers Watching Movies (Annie Hall) / 2:52 / 2013

 

 

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