Dear Frameworkers, I’m writing to announce that three new Blu-ray Disc releases have just come out from Black Zero <http://www.blackzero.ca/>, a home video label dedicated to the restoration and presentation of Canadian experimental film. Information about our new releases are below, and they’re now available to order in our online shop.
Each release features new restorations along with extensive contextualizing features—including audio commentaries, interviews, video essays, liner notes, and other archival discoveries. Our catalogue includes major and underseen works by artists such as Richard Kerr, R. Bruce Elder, Arthur Lipsett, Larry Kardish, Christine Lucy Latimer, Keith Lock, John Hofsess, Josephine Massarella, and Rick Hancox. You can explore the new titles and browse the full catalogue at http://www.blackzero.ca <http://www.blackzero.ca/>. Warm regards, Stephen Broomer Publisher, Black Zero Toronto, Canada www.blackzero.ca Christine Lucy Latimer: Fragile Systems The films and videos of Christine Lucy Latimer defy their containers: they reveal the fragile systems underlying media, press the boundaries of image-making machines, and embrace the faults and frailties of vision. Almost all of Latimer’s work is silent, but nothing is truly silent: Latimer’s images recall the hums, tweets and mechanical moans of the technology with which she made them. Her work began long after most of the formats she employs had become obsolete. Refusing the universal nostalgia of the antique camera and the antique image, Latimer’s works are undeniably present-facing and playfully disobedient, ethereal, and abstract. Supremely self-conscious yet mystical, they are seances that draw out the ghosts in the machine. SPECIAL FEATURES Digital masters approved by artist Christine Lucy Latimer Dreaming in Abstraction, a new interview with Christine Lucy Latimer 14 additional project-specific interviews, throughout the disc Fragile Systems, a video essay by Canadian filmmaker Stephen Broomer Select audio commentaries with the artist and her family Liner notes by artist and curator Meganelizabeth Diamond Richard Kerr: Crisis Collision Resolve Through the course of the 1980s, Canadian artist-filmmaker Richard Kerr had gradually moved towards an ‘accelerated cinema,’ an imagistic cinema of movement, montage and aggressive sound design. Kerr’s work in this ‘accelerated cinema’ became increasingly total at the same time that he became invested in the model of the ‘teacher-practitioner,’ collaborating directly with his students and working with simple, accessible tools. This collection gathers thirteen of Kerr’s films made between 1991 and 2017, chronicling an important phase in his creative evolution. Crisis Collision Resolve serves as a portrait of an artist pushing the limits of the moving image, while pitching a dynamic dialogue between pedagogy, collective action, and personal vision. SPECIAL FEATURES Newly restored digital masters approved by director Richard Kerr Machines of Cinema, a new interview with Richard Kerr The Dissolving Carousel, a video essay on Kerr's demi-monde by Canadian filmmaker Stephen Broomer Liner notes by film scholar Bart Testa Laurence Kardish: Slow Run Slow Run is a raw, lyrical portrait of New York City as seen through the eyes of a young Canadian exile. The filmmaker, Larry Kardish, at 23 years old, had made his first and only film as a candid love letter to the city, a litany of fascinations and complaints. Kardish blends dreamlike street photography, intimate portraiture, and a rhapsodic monologue performed by the filmmaker's fictional surrogate, a young Canadian ex-pat (Saul Rubinek in his first film role). The narration accounts the lives and relationships of a group of young Bohemians, and unfolds in parallel to the imagery rather than in dialogue with it, creating a tension between voice and vision, presence and distance. When Slow Run was released, Jonas Mekas asked, "is Larry Kardish a lyrical realist?" It is a film of such contraditions: romantic and disenchanted, spontaneous and composed. Slow Run captures a fleeting moment in time—New York in its grand beauty, as seen by an alien. SPECIAL FEATURES A new digital restoration approved by filmmaker Larry Kardish From Sandy Hill to Ottawa, a new interview with Larry Kardish Blind Alleys: Slow Run and the Tropic of Manhattan, a video essay by Canadian filmmaker Stephen Broomer Liner notes by poet and filmmaker David Spittle English subtitles
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