Soundtrack by Ignatz en Paul Labrecque, in cooperation with Bozar Cinema
Tickets: 7,5 €

The elegantly ravishing super 8 films of Paul Clipson are lyrical explorations of light and movement. His images, mostly edited in-camera, reveal the rhythms, energy and sensuality of the everyday that we often fail to see. The influence of experimental filmmakers such as Stan Brakhage, Marie Menken, Bruce Conner and Bruce Baillie is palpable in his multi-layered studies, as well as that of the many sound artists and musicians with whom he has collaborated over the years, such as Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Gregg Kowalsky and William Fowler Collins. For this occasion, a selection of his recent film work will be accompanied live for the first time by Bram Devens (alias Ignatz) and Paul Labrecque (alias Head of Wantastiquet, Sunburned Hand of the Man). Both musicians draw their exorcising sound explorations from the tradition of “American Primitivism”, where the dreaded, uncompromising ghost of John Fahey dwells.

Paul Clipson: “My interest is to create strokes or lines as one draws on a piece of paper, but because film introduces the element of TIME, these strokes and their position in time is not necessarily known when you make them. I work in a way that layers the images, like strokes of a brush floating in my mind as I make them. I don’t actually control the images I make. Because of the chemical process of film, you record things and then you process the film and see it a couple of weeks later, so it’s like you’re writing down collected experiences, putting them into an envelope and mailing them off…”.