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Location: Gladstone Hotel Art Bar
get me out of practice / habitual foaming / As fast as the eye can bear / to see grain flips its / trigger melt down tender / under eyelids trance – Lee Ann Brown, from Dark Writing Through Elementary Phrases for Stan Brakhage, Phil Solomon, and Tom who drove Kln based filmmakers Wilhelm and Birgit Hein were the flashpoint of German underground film in the 1970s. They founded and ran X SCREEN in 1968, where they showed porno films three nights a week to fund their underground screenings on the weekends. With a very outward gaze, they brought filmmakers like Jack Smith, Malcom LeGrice and Kurt Kren through their local cinema and their two programming stints at Dokumenta. As the centre-point between the Viennese and English avant-gardes, their own collaborative work showcased an admixture of bothan aggressive transgressiveness and a structural materialist focus on film as object. Were very excited to show a rare, imported copy of Rohfilm (Raw Film), their 1968 masterpiece. Collaged from fragments of autoportraiture and foraged footage and propelled by Christian Michelis aggressive proto-noise soundtrack, Rohfilm is a visceral and relentless manifesto on films pure physicality. Elementary Phrases, the first of three collaborations between Stan Brakhage and Phil Solomon, celebrates the physical in a strikingly different way. Composed of Brakhages unique hand-painted film frames step-printed on Solomons optical printer, Elementary Phrases expands on Brakhages cascading handmade imagery by building extended patterns and rhythms out of loops of frames. Solomons own photographic imagery mixes in with Brakhages paint strokes, creating figurative counterpoints that build on the very musical structure the two artists develop through the collaborative printing process. Programme: Rohfilm, W + B Hein, 1968, Germany, 16mm, 22 min Elementary Phrases, Stan Brakhage + Phil Solomon, USA, 1994, 16mm, 38 min silent
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