[Frameworks] Magic Lantern Presents: THE LOCAL SHOW (Thursday, Dec. 11)

[Watter, Seth]

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Magic Lantern Presents



THE LOCAL SHOW



Curated by Faith Holland & Seth Watter



Thursday, December 11th, 2014 @ 7 PM

Cable Car Cinema & Cafe

Providence, RI

$5



Artists in person!



This past summer, Magic Lantern put out a call for its first
submission-based program. We were interested in seeing contemporary work by
local artists in the vicinity of Providence, Boston, and New Haven, and in
bringing this work to the attention of others in a timely celebration of
regional filmmaking. All of the artists featured in The Local Show are, or
were until very recently, based in the area. We were impressed by the
diversity of artistic practices and styles to be found in these
submissions. Rather than trying to craft a coherent, thematic program, we
found it more interesting to simply highlight this heterogeneity and let
these works speak for themselves. The Local Show ranges from small,
unpretentious 8mm love letters to the most advanced digital manipulations,
from beautiful abstractions to politicized travelogues, and from the
finished form of recorded media to the contingencies of live performance.
Its scope is as big as Providence is small.



*Featuring works by* Sarah Abu Abdallah, Alexander Dupuis, Dave Fischer,
Tara & Gordon Nelson, Mariya Nikiforova, Adrian Randall, Deirde Sargent,
Asha Tamirisa, Derek Taylor, Arvid Tomayko-Peters, Matthew Underwood,
Freddie Wiss.



TRT: approx. 95 mins.



All descriptions courtesy of the artists.



*Mariya Nikiforova, Rewards, 16mm, 2014, 4.5 min.*

A destructive physical and chemical process reveals hidden energies in a
forgotten Boston green space. The resulting debris alternately evoke
graffiti, stained glass, natural decomposition, and the effects of
heatstroke on a tired brain. The minimally sourced soundtrack, composed in
collaboration with Stefan Grabowski, explores the way in which we sometimes
"hear" what we see and vice versa.



*Tara & Gordon Nelson, Sad Mall, super 8, 2013, 4 min.*

A late winter, long-distance Super 8 love letter between Boston (shot by
Gordon) and Ithaca (shot by Tara). All edits are in-camera. Original
soundtrack by Shades of Fawn (Gordon and Tara Nelson). Shot on Ektachrome
100D.



*Deirdre Sargent, Sea Screen, digital video, 2014, 2.5 min.*

A digitized citizen with her aquatic fantasies is only able to digest
experience through screen imagery. The "screen" becomes anything with an
clear, flat surface, such as an aquarium - the aquarium becomes a
television and the TV a tank. With an interest in the lo-fi and and
situating a cranium in between a screen and camera, this video explores our
imagined experiences through screen relationships.



*Alexander Dupuis, That Which Pulls, digital video, 2013, 10 min.*

*That Which Pulls* applies John Whitney’s principles of differential motion
to resynthesize sound and image data into new audiovisual material. The
resulting sounds and video are cut up, layered, and recombined to create a
piece that explores the dynamic interplay between the emergent auditory and
visual gestures, focusing on the counterpoint between their patterns of
chaos and resolution.



*Derek Taylor, Someone to Ride the River With, digital video, 2008, 5 min.*

A map of recollection, the film consists of 286 35mm Kodachrome stills of
varying landscapes, which mine the depths of memory. The film also pays
homage to a patient photographer, whose lyrical impressions of the world
evoke a feeling of genuine perception.



*Asha Tamirisa, OX, digital video, 2014, 7 min.*

Sonic and visual pulse.



*Adrian Randall, The Bourgeois Agony of Travel, digital video, 2014, 12
min.*

*The Bourgeois Agony of Travel* is an experimental travelogue which
reflects on the images, spaces, screens, and pixels of travel. Recorded
over four years, the film explores how we relate to screens as both the
virtual reality of cosmopolitanism, and as a form of deep, personal
connection.



*Dave Fischer, Aura Display, digital video, 2014, 5 min.*

*Aura Display* is a short bit of abstract dancing geometry, in tribute to
the device in the film Akira that shows people's psychic powers. It was
written in 100% hand-coded Postscript.



*Freddie Wiss, Black or White, digital video, 2007, 3 min.*

*Black or White* is a film that explores the ambiguity of identity and
perception with psychological vignettes that are fluid, tense and
enigmatic... culminating in a bit of anxiety and despair.



*Arvid Tomayko-Peters, Spontaneous Pigeon Vortex, digital video, 2014, 7.5
min.*

*Spontaneous Pigeon Vortex* is an exploration of improvisation with
realtime audio and video manipulation using custom software. What can I do
in 7 minutes with a bunch of video clips while responding to music? The
music was recorded in four takes of trumpet and drums (sometimes
simultaneously) and realtime manipulation those recordings. The video
manipulation was recorded in realtime using original footage from Arches
National Park, Colorado National Monument, Narragansett Bay, Providence and
highways in Colorado, Utah and Ontario, with only a few small tweaks in
post production.



*Sarah Abu Abdallah, The Salad Zone, digital video, 2013, 21 min.*

Disarrayed glimpses of multiple narratives such as that of familial
domestic tensions, a juvenile dream of going to Japan, the tendency to
smash TVs in moments of anger and eating fish. While using scenes from the
artist’s surroundings and life in Saudi Arabia like streets or malls, it
never attempts to provide the whole picture but takes a rhizomatic approach
to tell a story of the everyday life.



*Matthew Underwood, Live Synesthetic Performance, multi-media, 2014*

An array of analog electronics, folk noise gear, and scientific instruments
create harsh and strange sounds. Custom computer software will generate
visuals in real-time in response to these sounds. Enjoy the show.



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