07: Vonna-Michell / Fowler

31 March, 2017 - 18:15
Sphinx cinema

 

 

SELECTION 2017

A dialogue between new audiovisual works, older or rediscovered films and videos by artists and filmmakers who work in the expanded field of moving image practice.

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In the presence of Tris Vonna-Michell.

 

Register

Tris Vonna-Michell
,
SE
,
2016
,
HD
,
15'

Register is a new film by visual artist Tris Vonna-Michell consisting of an animated sequence of slides (scans and digital photographs), taken in transient spaces like underpasses, viaducts, stations and docks during a trip to Japan made in 2008, re-assembled in an anachronistic narrative. The soundtrack that accompanies the film is the result of a montage of musical compositions by Antwerp-based artist/musician Jan Matthé and field-recordings made by Vonna-Michell of consumer and transitory life in Japan. The projecting, enlarging and orchestration of imagery by analogue and tactile means is combined with digital means of re-animation.

Electro-Pythagorus: A Portrait of Martin Bartlett

Luke Fowler
,
UK
,
2016
,
35mm
,
45'

With Electro-Pythagorus: A Portrait of Martin Bartlett Luke Fowler pays tribute to the work and musical ideas of Martin Bartlett (1939-93) a proudly gay Canadian composer who during the 1970s and 1980s pioneered the use of the ‘microcomputer’. Bartlett is hardly recognised, never mind canonised, in cultural life. He researched intimate relationships with technology and was particularly interested in handmade electronics where, as he states in one of his performances: “the intimacy of handcraftedness softens the technological anonymity creating individual difference making each instrument a topography of uncertainties with which we become acquainted through practice’.