[Frameworks] Magic Lantern Presents: TEMPORARY OCEAN (IN LIGHT & SOUND) (October 16-17)

[Watter, Seth]

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Magic Lantern Cinema Presents:

*TEMPORARY OCEAN
*

*(IN LIGHT & SOUND)*

Curated by Josh Guilford


Wednesday, October 16th • 9:00 PM

Machines with Magnets • 400 Main St., Pawtucket, RI

$5

*The same program will screen again on*

 Thursday, October 17 • 7:30 pm

The Brattle Theatre • 40 Brattle St., Cambridge, MA

$10 General / $8 Students & Seniors

TRT ca. 87 min

An undulating cine-installation where flicker films give way to experiments
with audio-visual feedback, optical soundtracks, and the materiality of
light and sound.  Aleatory and programmed images emerge on-screen from an
evolving field of color and movement in a room swelling with reflected
waves and strangely affective resonances.  With film and video works by
Paul Sharits, Billy Roisz, Mike Stoltz, Donna Cameron, Guy Sherwin, and
Beverly and Tony Conrad, and a live performance by Shawn Greenlee.


Mike Stoltz, “With Pluses and Minuses,” 2013, 16mm, color, sound, 5 min

“Real morning with pluses and minuses, my symbols for truth.” –D. Boon



Beverly and Tony Conrad, “Straight and Narrow,” 1970, 16mm, b&w, sound, 10
min

Activating perceptual aberrations with sequenced patterns of black and
white stripes set to music by John Cale and Terry Riley.  Intended to
produce “a programmed gamut of hallucinatory color effects” and subjective
sensations of movement (Film-Makers’ Coop).



Donna Cameron, “Fauve,” 1991, 16mm, color, sound, 10 min

A vibrant, and highly textural monochromatic study of “the physics of light
waves leaving a source” where the viewer is “left in the UV light world of
peripheral vision” (D.C.)



Paul Sharits, “Razor Blades,” 1968, 16mm dual projection, color, sound, 25
min

“Razor Blades cuts deeply, both in our psychic and visceral bodies, and is
a forerunner of what films some day may become -- totally programmed
visual, auditory and psychological environments.” –David Beinstock



Guy Sherwin, “Musical Stairs,” 1977, 16mm, b&w, sound, 10 min

“In MUSICAL STAIRS, 16mm footage of an iron staircase was printed to
produce both picture and soundtrack images, i.e., the optical sound sensor
in the projector reads the photographs of iron steps as variable density
soundtrack. The staircase is filmed from a fixed perspective, producing for
the soundtrack a musical scale of eleven stages determined by the camera
angles. Sound volume and image brightness were both controlled by varying
the exposure setting at the printing stage. The fact that the staircase is
neither a synthetic image, nor a particularly clean one (there happened to
be leaves on the stairs when I shot the film) means that the sound is not
pure, but dense with strange harmonies.” –G.S.



Guy Sherwin, “Night Train,” 1979, 16mm, b&w, sound, 2 min

“The sound of lights passing through a darkened landscape seen from a
moving train.” –G.S.



Billy Roisz, “elesyn 15.625,” 2006, video, color, sound, 10 min

“‘elesyn 15.625’ goes back to the fundaments of electronic sound and image
synthesis -- the electromagnetic signals, their frequencies, amplitudes
which are the basis for colours, lines, tone pitch, movement and dynamics.
Moving images and music are generated by 'simple' forms of signal routing
like acoustical and optical feedback, radio waves, bended circuits. The
result is a very colourful - in the visual as well as in the aural sense of
the meaning - diorama of 'electric synaesthesia' or the idea thereof.” –B.R.



Shawn Greenlee, “Impellent 2,” 2013, video, color, sound, 15 min

An experiment in “graphic waveshaping” where Greenlee uses digital
microscopes to scan original paper works whose image data is then
translated into both a hypnotizing, split-screen visual projection of
shifting, abstract color designs, and jarring bursts of jittery sonic
outputs configured by the artist through improvised manipulations of a
multitouch trackpad. Via computer programs of his own design, Greenlee’s
“Impellent 2” advances new methods for interpreting visual image as sound.



**Magic Lantern Cinema is generously supported by the Malcolm S. Forbes
Center for Culture and Media Studies at Brown University and the Robert
Rauschenberg Foundation.


http://www.magiclanterncinema.com
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