14 August, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino

“Making sense of place”: For the practitioners of cinematic lyricism, it is a process that involves the eyes and hands and locomotion unique to each respective author. These films mediate between nature and industrial civilisation, going from concrete places on earth to the technological evocation of places in the mind. 1. A walk beneath the trees: twitching frames of film, edited in-camera, the sound applied with ink onto the soundtrack. 2. Climbing a steep spiral staircase, up a tower: the film throbs with exertion. 3. A turnbridge in Oregon, at once the source and the subject of a constantly revolving view. 4. An office hallway, transformed into a crystal formation of temporal and spatial distances. 5. A tree in motionless motion, shot on expired infrared film over a period of 50 days in Vermont.

The second part of the evening is dedicated to the films of Robert Beavers and Gregory Markopoulos. Markopoulos’s Ming Green, the portrait of a New York interior, and Bliss, the portrait of a Greek church, represent the most lyrical use of film. Beavers has developed a unique line of inquiry on that same territory. In addition to The Hedge Theater, shot in Rome during the 1980s, his most recent work Pitcher of Colored Light will be shown as an exclusive world premiere: “I have filmed my mother’s house and her garden. The shadows play an essential part in the mixture of loneliness and peace that exists here. The seasons move from the garden into the house, projecting rich diagonals in the early morning or late afternoon. Each shadow is a subtle balance of stillness and movement; it shows the vital instability of space. Its special quality opens a passage to the subjective; a voice within the film speaks to memory. The walls are screens through which I pass to the inhabited privacy. We experience a place through the perspective of where we come from and hear another’s voice through our own acoustic. The sense of place is never separate from the moment.”


3/60 Bäume im Herbst
Kurt Kren, 1960, 16mm, b/w, No dialogues, 5 mins

Ide…/I’m going..
Józef Robakowski, 1973, 35mm, b/w, No dialogues, 3 mins

Railroad Turnbridge
Richard Serra, 1975, 16mm, b/w, silent, 17 mins

Serene Velocity
Ernie Gehr, 1971, 16mm, Colour, silent, 23 mins

37/78 Tree again
Kurt Kren, 1978, 16mm, Colour, silent, 4 min

Bliss
Gregory J. Markopoulos, 1967, 16mm, colours, No dialogues, 6 mins

The Hedge Theater
Robert Beavers, 1986-90/2002, 35mm, Colour, No dialogues, 19 mins

Ming Green
Gregory J. Markopoulos, 1966, 16mm, Colour, No dialogues, 7 mins

Pitcher of Colored Light
Robert Beavers, 2007, 35mm, Colour, No dialogues, World Premiere presentes by Robert Beavers, 23 mins

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