We’d like to thank everyone who came out and will come out to our space to check out our programme! The responses so far have been great and it was good fun to see a lot of people take their time to see the programme we compiled.
If you were there in the past few days: we enjoyed your company! And if you didn’t yet, but you’re planning to: please do, there’s lots to see!
This screening is on view through Sunday the 2nd of December, so do come out and see what we’ve got for you. Opening hours on www.kunstvlaai.nl
‘Six easy pieces’ (2010), part of the ‘Secrets’ trilogy by Reynold Reynolds
Reynold Reynolds will be part of our upcoming screening programme Sorry for not standing still, at Kunstvlaai, Amsterdam! Opening Friday November 23.
Also, in the context of Sorry for not standing still, Reynold will be giving a talk on some of his older and more recent work on Sunday November 25th. See the Facebook event page
Fifteen children were each asked to watch a Bollywood movie prominently featuring a child character. During the shoot that followed, each child was asked to verbally portray the child character in the movie that s/he had watched, to describe the role and plight of that character within the movie’s narrative.
A surreal black comedy set in a decrepit 1960’s housing development. When his mother is drawn into sainthood and the resulting frustrations of his father become too difficult to manage, Thomas, a young boy, becomes obsessed with events on the broadcast news. The liberation of the Belgian Congo is taking place and Thomas becomes Lumumba, one of the contenders as the Congo’s new leader. He is encouraged in this escapism by Plagge, the postman who reads all the mail and knows all of the bizzarre and intimate secrets of the eccentric inhabitants of the estate.
This was the first ever mixer with crossfader. The Gaumont Chronophone.
In 1910, the French engineer Leon Gaumont demonstrated his sound-and-film synchronizing Chronophone system at the Gaumant Palace in Paris, France. Gaument’s Chronophone had two gramophone platters, between which a deft operator could switch back and forth.
‘A Movie Will Be Shown Without the Picture’ (1979) by Louise Lawler.
In 1979 Louise Lawler screened the 1951 John Houston film The Misfits at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica. She played only the audio portion of the film, leaving the screen blank for the duration.
Douglass ‘Monodramas’, ten 30- to 60-second videos from 1991, conceived as interventions into commercial television, interrupted the usual flow of advertising and entertainment when broadcast nightly in British Columbia for three weeks in 1992.
