Dear Frameworks readers, I've organized two shows coming up; one this weekend and one the next, in San Francisco and Los Angeles respectively. The first program brings a number of Super 8 and 16mm films made at / through the Echo Park Film Center to screen in the Bay Area, all for the first time. The second is the thirty-first program in the on-going New Works Salon series that I have been curating at the Echo Park Film Center since 2012. If you find yourself in either city, please consider coming. best, Rick Bahto
Sunday, February 14, 2016 at 8 pm *Films from the Southland* Artists’ Television Access / 992 Valencia St. San Francisco 94110 This program brings together a sampling of recent works in Super 8 and 16mm made through the Echo Park Film Center in Los Angeles, including works made through the LA AIR artist-in-residency program. The residency program has facilitated the creation of dozens of new works in film and video by providing Los Angeles-based artists access to space, time, and resources. This program will include *Haruko Tanaka’s The Soroban and the Present *is part abacus (soroban) tutorial, part historical account, part freeway numerology meditation, and part guerrilla ringing and field recordings of 2 forgotten L.A. bells, while *John Palmer’s Intimations #1 *features Super 8 portraits of strangers and their secrets and spaces. *Pablo Valencia *will show a suite of Super 8 miniatures, *Kate Brown *shows her Super 8 film *4X3*, and *Alee Peoples *will show her *untitled *8mm visual translation of a 1963 pop song’s lyrics. For the past few years EPFC has also been commissioning new works in Super 8 and 8mm film from artists around the world. This program features a small selection of these films, including *Martine Syms’ L’Inventaire, *in which a man gestures on screen to describe the various parts of a hardcover book, while a woman recounts the books that have changed her life in Jacques Prévert's poetic style, *Daniel Marlos’ Odalisque,* a structuralist document of the repetition and variation of a quilted ground and the nude female figure that reclines upon it,* Tomonari Nishikawa’s Manahttan One Two Three, Jessica Storm’s Yesterday’s News, *as well as works by Bay Area artists *Paul Clipson *and *Rosario Sotelo. */ $7–10 *Filmmakers Kate Brown, Rosario Sotelo, and Jessica Storm in person! * https://www.facebook.com/events/806922889419857/ *** Saturday, February 20, 2016 at 8 pm *New Works Salon XXXI: Brookbank, Cannizzaro, Ciummo, Flowers, Hahn, Monahan, Valencia* Echo Park Film Center / 1200 N Alvarado St The New Works Salons series is a casual forum for the presentation and discussion of new works in film, video, sound, and performance, with local and visiting artists in-person to introduce their work. *John Cannizzaro *will show *Dodecahedron, *a light-hearted primer on image making. Using three 16mm film projectors and a separate sound source, this film “happening” explores the multi-layered process of capturing images. This film was commissioned by EPFC on our 12th anniversary! *Reza Monahan *will show *Gravely Mistaken Identities, *a modified piece taken from a multi-media installation installed last August at Monte Vista Projects. Unfolding as a conversation between operatives of time and place, this film utilizes a charged "discussion" to pull movement from degrees of stillness while ushering stillness back into forms of hyper-active movement. *Olivia Ciummo *will show her work *On The Evening: *between the sky and ground is an anxious state of affairs—a tropical nighttime landscape, re-photographed historical sites, political boundaries and the elasticity of a dream state. Also on the program: *Karissa Hahn *will show a new series of short works made on Super 8, including *1_ _ _ _1, 1_ /\ _ _1, *along with a video piece titled* Chipping Off, too,* *Ursula Brookbank *will perform* Marguritte: A Demonstration *for overheard projector, 16mm film, and cake, and we’ll have recent Super 8 films by *Pablo Valencia *and by New York based artist *Marquita Flowers. * $5 suggested donation https://www.facebook.com/events/1662167890704375/
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