[Frameworks] Stephen Connolly at UnionDocs tomorrow

[Steve HOLMGREN]

Hey guys,

if you're in NYC or have friends please help spread the word that
Stephen Connolly will be presenting some films/videos on his way to
jury Ann Arbor.

Documentary Poetry Cinema by Stephen Connolly, 322 Union Ave
Sunday, March 20 at 7:30pm $9 suggested donation.

Filmmaker Stephen Connolly in attendance for discussion with curator
Richard Birkett (Artists Space).

This work explores the fertile territory between documentary and
poetic modes of moving image. From diary to essay-film to
observational work, London-based artist Stephen Connolly employs a
variety of investigative and reconstructive approaches to his
non-fiction filmmaking. Serious, yet never solemn, and infused with
wit and passion, the work combines an urgency and complexity in the
short film form. Connolly combines and layers seemingly disparate
images, sounds, and narrative threads to explore the relationships
between individual and social agency.

Connolly’s film The Whale (2003) is described by the artist as “an
oblique meditation on safety, fear and notions of faraway places”. The
dispassionate camera of Great American Desert (2007) explores an
Arizona landscape to the chatter of a flock of Snowbirds. Más Se
Perdió (2008) wanders through a revolutionary ruin in Havana, while
respectfully appreciating the nuances of image making in this
politically contested space. The first section of the program includes
the “.. angular, beautifully shot Film for Tom (2005), which broods
upon the life and death of a bright, troubled outsider, ….
breathtakingly measured and sure-footed.” ‘New Contemporaries’, Martin
Herbert, TIME OUT LONDON 2006.



Stephen Connolly will jury the 2011 Ann Arbor Film Festival,  March 22-27.