Organizer and founder of The Artist Film Club at Nitehawk Cinema. Launched in September with Jim Shaw’s film The Hole (2007), the aim with the Artist Film Club is to garner a community interested in showing, viewing, and discussing artist and experimental films. Each month invited curators will present a program of short-form and/or feature-length works varying in content, format, and region.
November 2, 2012
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Curated by Amelia Ishmael
Chicago-based independent curator and scholar Amelia Ishmael presents an assemblage of lights and sounds which elicit a chaotic vortex of smudgy black charcoal that is streaked with freezing water, painted on celluloid, stained by sea creatures, hexed through new media, and entranced by guitar riffs.
Featured artists include:
Gast Bouschet and Nadine Hilbert, Jon Cates, Cultus Sabbati, Reto Mäder and Daniel Steffen for Ural Umbo, Michel Pennec for Aluk Todolo, Alexander Stewart, and Aldo Tambellini
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October 18, 2012
Artist moving images selected by the Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts’ 2012 Art & Law Residents
Part of the exhibition Scènes à Faire at Dumbo Arts Center
- September 9, 2006 (Karl Erickson, 2009, 3:20 mins), Digital, US, Selected by Caryn Coleman
- Black guy at the park – m4m… (Andrea McGinty, 2011, 1 min), Digital, US, Selected by Diana Shpungin
- Epic Battles in History #3 (Lindsey Baker, 2012, 3:15 mins), Digital, US, Selected by Diana Shpungin
- Fawns, Pack of Gray Standing Wolf, and Horizon (Jenn Kann, 2011, 2012, 2012, 5:50 mins), Digital, US
- Music Is Life (Ezra Howard, Jennifer Dean & Wilma Mosley-Clopton, 2011, 10:30 mins), Digital, US, Selected by Jennifer Dean
- Article of Faith (Christina Antonakos-Wallace, 2011, 10:02 mins), Digital, US, Selected by Sophia Wallace
- Assembly Room 1 (Mike Crane with Lee Welch, 2012, 28 mins), Digital, US, Selected by James N. Kienitz Wilkins
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September 27, 2012
Jim Shaw – The Hole (2007)
Part of the journal release party for Incognitum Hactenus’ “Living On: Zombies”
Jim Shaw’s first fictional feature, The Hole (2007) appears as an O-ist horror movie where a new female convert to the religion, peering through a hole in her apartment wall, discovers a parallel world where zombies stroll in an ill-defined “somewhere beyond which space becomes abstracted.” Here, the space between the living “normal” world and the endless repetition of the continuous living in “zombie” world collapse, meeting through a hole in a wall in a domestic space. The zombies, all men, are dressed in suits aimlessly wandering, slightly bumping into each other. A close up into the zombie nerve center reveals the “brain” is a fuzzy television-like portal (Dani Tull’s soundrack is incredible), providing us an abstracted account of what goes on in the mind of the mindless. The film suggests a parallel world of zombies to our own, prompting the question of how do we look, evaluate, adapt, and change our own end of the world that’s so near by?