Richard, the call is strange, weird . . for taking it for granted that film and
performance art have something in common.
Space and film makes sense. There's a cool essay by Beatriz Colomina on
architecture, sexuality, and film in the volume she edited called Sexuality and
Space. That's cinema . . isn't it, at least as Sense of Cinema would have it?
I mean the architectural dimensions . . the architectural spaces of shots. But
Colomina is onto the importance of space for questions concerned with sexuality
. .
. . and then, then there's performance art. I think of the Boston event in
April called "Near death performance art experience." Not an impartial choice,
but certainly a very prominent one within American performance art. What could
such an event have to do with film? And who, anyway, comes to mind when you
think of performance art? Aaaargh. What is the relationship between such a
practice in live performance, on one hand, and technology itself . . in
general, not to speak of film in particular?
There's no way around this abyss. The doubt opens up before your dismissal of
"documentation," Richard. It's like a giant log right in your path. And to go
"beyond" that, like you invite us to, you know, what exactly does that mean . .
that beyond that is a going along with a technology, with filmmaking? What,
after all, was it that was supposed to be going on in those events themselves?
Better to go, perhaps, by way of a certain kind of figurative painting. The
avant-garde in film suddenly looks to a time way, way, WAY before performance
art . . or else it seeks to assuage this doubt with "expanded cinema." But we
have arrived at an expanded cinema that is now . . in the theater itself!
Bernie
Richard Ashrowan
Mon Sep 2 13:07:17 UTC 2013
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Hello all, I am trying to put together some screenings for the Edinburgh venue
Summerhall, whose autumn theme is broadly 'Performance and Space', at quite
short notice. I'm looking for filmworks, moving image or expanded cinema
projects that relate to that theme in some meaningful way. Of course, it's a
very broad theme... I've been looking at various people associated with the
London Filmaktion group (LFMC), plus works that have a strong component of
performance art (those that go beyond 'documentation'). But I am also keen to
find newer works in this territory, or some things from across the ocean. If
anyone has any helpful suggestions, I would be glad to hear them, here or
off-list. Many thanks, Richard Richard Ashrowan
Creative Director
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival
04.04.2014 - 06.04.2014
Hawick, Scottish Borders
www.alchemyfilmfestival.org.uk
www.ashrowan.com
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