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[image: Murray Guy 453 West 17 St New York, NY 10011 +1 212 463 7372 www.murrayguy.com] *Friday, October 9th, 6:30 pm* Jennifer Montgomery, *Notes on the Death of Kodachrome *(2006, video and Super 8 sound film, TRT 48 minutes) Gordon and Tara Nelson, *End of Empire* (2015, loop, Super 8, 16mm and HD) Both Montgomery and Tara Nelson will be present for a post-screening discussion. The artists will reconsider the issues attendant to the passage of analogue film into the born-digital era. Still from Jennifer Montgomery, *Notes on the Death of Kodachrome**. 2006* *Notes on the Death of Kodachrome*, 2006 Written, directed, shot and edited by Jennifer Montgomery STARRING: Jennifer Montgomery, Peggy Ahwesh, Keith Sanborn, Michelle Handelman, Lynne Sachs, Joe Westmoreland, Lisa Cholodenko, Todd Haynes, Randy Russell, Kiki Anderson, Madeleine Hérisson-Leplae, Anne Hérisson-Leplae, Steve Wetzel, Stephanie Barber, Nicholas Frank, Mary Scherer, Thidapha Thongsavanh. *This piece purports to be about the discontinuation of the much-loved format, Kodachrome, and with it the further endangerment of super-8 film. But it has other agendas of reclamation and personal reckoning that are its true subject matter. We begin with a short, experimental Super 8 film made in 1986, which makes rather prophetic assertions about the future of artistic expression and the dangers of bodily intimacy. From there we jump to 2005 and to digital video. I track down three old friends (Joe Westmoreland, Lisa Cholodenko, and Todd Haynes) who borrowed and never returned pieces of my Super 8 film equipment. We speak about the changes in our lives, focusing on the repercussions of the AIDS crisis and shifts in alternative film production. This process of reclaiming the apparatus of the aesthetics of intimacy (i.e. Super 8* * filmmaking) results in the realization of a new Super 8 film, shot in the now-defunct Kodachrome, which completes the narrative. * – Jennifer Montgomery *End of Empire*, 2015 Part 1 in the *FourMats* series. A single channel documentation of a multi-media installation which used four formats to compose a single image of the Kodak building in Rochester, NY. Using discontinued color-reversal film stocks in 16mm, Super-8 and slide film, along with HD video, this looping installation documents the final days of the Kodak empire. *End of Empire* is both an homage to Warhol’s 1964 durational film, *Empire*, and an elegy to Kodak film in the final days of the industry. Tara Merenda Nelson and Gordon Nelson are filmmaking spouses living in Rochester NY. Their installations, 16mm and Super 8 films have shown at the Video Association of Dallas, Anthology Film Archives, The Mattress Factory, MoMA and the Andy Warhol Museum. Gordon was co-curator of the experimental film screening series, *Jefferson Presents*, from 2000-2010 and is currently a Fellow at the Image Permanence Institute at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Tara is the Curator of Moving Image Collections at the Visual Studies Workshop. ----------- This event is organized in conjunction with the exhibition *Two Serious Ladies: Peggy Ahwesh and Jennifer Montgomery*, 12 September – 24 October at Murray Guy. Over the years Peggy Ahwesh and Jennifer Montgomery’s individual practices have concerned similar inquiries into feminism, experimental filmmaking, genre, and cultural identity. Analogous to the two protagonists in Jane Bowles’ 1943 novel *Two Serious Ladies*, who each go off on personal odysseys and come back to philosophize about their experiences, Ahwesh and Montgomery inspire and reflect one another. This exhibition presents films that span a relationship of nearly 30 years in which the artists continue to return to each other in order to witness, contribute to, and perform in each other’s work. The daily gallery program will include a continuous play of six films dating from 1989 to 2013. Gallery hours are Tuesday – Saturday, 10am–6pm For the full daily program and artists' bios please click here <http://murrayguy.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=6887fd68bd88f0ed19d5e8a02&id=d5df3605c7&e=e1d46b3992> . ----------- Upcoming evening screenings and discussions: *Friday, October 23rd, 6:30 pm* Peggy Ahwesh, *Neither Day Nor Night *(2015, HD, TRT: 24 minutes) Moyra Davey, *My Saints* (2014, HD, TRT: 30 minutes) Jennifer Montgomery will moderate a post-screening discussion. For more information or images, please contact the gallery at +1-212-463-7372 or [email protected]. friend on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/100003516510708> | forward to a friend <http://us4.forward-to-friend1.com/forward?u=6887fd68bd88f0ed19d5e8a02&id=24cfb25291&e=e1d46b3992>| unsubscribe from this list <http://murrayguy.us4.list-manage1.com/unsubscribe?u=6887fd68bd88f0ed19d5e8a02&id=82a1e129ec&e=e1d46b3992&c=24cfb25291>
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