[Frameworks] °*-*° Directors Lounge Screening - Clint Enns - Embodying the Intention - Wed 17 June °*-*°

[Klaus W. Eisenlohr]

Directors Lounge Screening:

Clint Enns
Embodying the Intention

Wednesday, 17 June 2015
21:00
Z-Bar
Bergstraße 2
10115 Berlin-Mitte

Embodying the Intention: The Selected Works of Clint Enns

Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Clint Enns is a video 
artist currently living in Toronto, Ontario. He 
originally studied mathematics before changing 
his focus to the study of cinema and media 
studies. His work is multifaceted and eclectic, 
and therefore resists easy classification. Mostly 
using found material, he manipulates analogue 
film, screen captures video chats and computer 
games, transforms videos into ASCI code, uses 
lo-fi toy cameras, close-circuit feedback and 
found footage. He has presented his works in 
festivals and alternative cinema spaces and 
writes about cinema.

Although his work is primarily short in length, 
it is intended for theatrical presentation, and 
not as installation work, single or 
multi-channel, as most other media artists do. 
His being in favour for the screening format, and 
the playful anarchy of his films, reflect also 
the vibrant micro-cinema culture that exists in 
both Toronto and Winnipeg: communities that 
create and discuss films and that are open to a 
new generation of filmmakers and video artists 
working in unconventional and non-academic ways 
(though many established and academic elders 
contribute to the community such as Guy Maddin, 
Mike Hoolboom, Phil Hoffman and John Porter, all 
from Canada) These are the kind of communities 
that echo the old days of Cinema 16 where Amos 
Vogel and his peers showed a mixture of 
avant-garde films, splash films, instructional 
and science movies together with subversive 
political films.

In Enns' work you may find traces of the joyful, 
deconstructing practice of Nam June Paik, who 
used magnets and other tools to bend the beam of 
the cathode in order to distort the television 
image. Enns nowadays also uses scripting and 
electronic errors in order to create or alter his 
images.  Still, it seems as if the artist is 
using a quote of Paik for his work: "When too 
perfect, lieber Gott böse" (When too perfect, 
dear God turns angry). With this show at Z-Bar, 
Clint Enns invites us to a microcosm of 
electronic and analogue images, which can only be 
seen as the antithesis to the over-real, sharp, 
High Definition images, and as an ironic response 
to some overly serious avant-garde heroes, 
emblematic of the Cult of the Bolex.

His mathematical studies have not only provided 
Enns with the knowledge to use algorithms for the 
creation of his images, but have also liberated 
some diabolic and playful humor (all out of 
love), which sometimes requires a savvy viewer to 
fully read the irony embedded in the image.

The artist will be available for Q&A. Curated be Klaus W. Eisenlohr



Artist Link:
http://clintenns.tumblr.com/

Links:
Directors Lounge
http://www.directorslounge.net
Details:
http://www.richfilm.de/currentUpload/
Z-Bar
http://www.z-bar.de
°*-*°


-- 

Klaus W. Eisenlohr, Osnabrücker Str. 25, D-10589 Berlin, Germany



email:			klaus at richfilm.de
and film production:		http://www.richfilm.de


phone:			int.- 49 - 30 - 3409 5343 (BERLIN)
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/pipermail/frameworks/attachments/20150617/eb2604f3/attachment.html>