Wonder Flash, 2010. A video by Dominque Sirois
JL
Hangman-Le jeu du pendu from 2010, a video by Lamathilde (Mathilde Géromin).
I have seen this video many times and every time I see it I feel deeply moved.
JL
So good!
-SH
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Herman’s House, 2010, Directed by Angad Singh Bhalla.
Jackie Summel is a multidisciplinary artist. We met in San Francisco 10 years ago.
Over the past years, Jackie developed a friendship with Herman Wallace who has been in solitary confinement for over 30 years. This is a film about Jackie trying to design and build Herman’s dream home. I can’t wait to see the whole film- more info on the film here.
JL
Tags: JACKIE SUMMEL HERMAN WALLACE
Akram Zaatari @ MIT List Center, Boston
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Daria Martin @ The Independent Art Fair, NYC
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Doug Aitken’s Song 1 @ Hirshhorn Museum, DC (multiple projectors plus sound)
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Elad Lassry, Untitled (Presence 2005), 2012. Performance view, The Hayworth, Los Angeles, March 2, 2012. Photo: Fredrik Nilson.
Another chance to see The Clock!
Christian Marclay’s The Clock: 24-Hour Screening
Saturday, March 24 2012 | 12pm - Sunday, March 25 | 12pm
Free at the Bing Theater | LACMA
“Join us for another twenty-four-hour screening of artist Christian Marclay’s The Clock beginning Saturday, March 24, at noon and ending at noon on Sunday, March 25. Awarded the prestigiousGolden Lion at last year’s Venice Biennale, The Clock is a twenty-four-hour single-channel montage constructed from thousands of moments of cinema and television history depicting the passage of time. Marclay has excerpted each of these moments from their original contexts and edited them together to create a functioning timepiece synchronized to local time wherever it is viewed—marking the exact time in real time for the viewer for twenty-four consecutive hours. The sampled clips come from films of all genres, time periods, and cultures, some lasting only seconds, others minutes, and have been culled from hundreds of films, famous and obscure, into a seamless whole. The result, a melding of video and reality, unfolds with a seemingly endless cast of cameos. By making the film available in its entirety, this free screening will allow The Clock to be viewed in the way Marclay intended.”
-JO
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Michael Robinson @ Whitney Biennial
Michael Robinson (b. 1981), still from These Hammers Don’t Hurt Us, 2010. Digital video, color, sound; 13 min. © Michael Robinson; courtesy the artist
Michael Robinson’s works bring together images and sounds from a wide range of original and pop-culture sources, forging new and uncanny correspondences. He blends film and video to create lyrical narratives that are equally opulent and restrained, their parent materials pulsing in and out of abstraction. For These Hammers Don’t Hurt Us, footage of Elizabeth Taylor’s 1963 Hollywood epic Cleopatra is seamlessly combined with images of Michael Jackson’s mid-1990s Egyptomania, culminating in a mesmerizing phantasmagoria of hypnotic color strobe. Line Describing Your Mom—its title a cheeky nod to Anthony McCall’s canonical “solid-light” film Line Describing a Cone (1974)—sets altered footage of amateur liturgical choreography to the sounds of a woman’s YouTube confessional. Here and elsewhere, Robinson makes familiar media strange again, exploring collective memory through a poetics of devotion and loss.