Dear Friends,
This Saturday, you are invited to join me for the solo premiere of my latest films, at Anthology Film Archives - 7.30pm.
A brand new 16mm copy will be projected, with an original soundtrack by Sean McBride (Martial Canterel / Xeno & Oaklander).
A bientot, Liz
COLD CINEMA: FILMS BY LIZ WENDELBO
‘Opticks I – XIV’
2008, 3 minutes x 14, 16mm, color and bw, sound. Editing by Taylor Thompson; music by Sean McBride (Martial Canterel / Xeno & Oaklander); performances by Brandi Hudson, Elissa Santiago.
Born in the dark era that is the new millennium in New York, the ‘cold cinema’ of Liz Wendelbo is a return to analogue film. Originating from the NY Minimal Electronics music scene (Xeno & Oaklander), Liz Wendelbo engages in a form of filmmaking that predicates resistance to cinema as a virtual medium. Her latest work is a series of short three-minute films entitled ‘Opticks’. Her films explore themes of darkness, rituals, Goth iconography and film as a medium, with melancholy and restraint. With a fondness for obsolete technology, she uses 16mm and double 8 as her shooting medium of choice, in color and black and white.
‘Opticks’ is structured in a modular way: the short films are numbered one through fourteen and are interchangeable. Three sections surface overall – the abstract optical experiments of the ‘Maxwell Tartan Ribbon’ series (A 19th century Scottish physicist, Maxwell ‘projected’ the first color photograph using Newton’s color theory in 1861 – the image was a tartan ribbon); the dance and movement based Goth ‘Rituals’ series; and the ‘film-as-historical document’ framework of World War II, industrial and personal found footage of the ‘Excavation’ and ‘Columns’ series.
Total running time: ca. 50 minutes
- Saturday, May 23rd at 7:30.
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