One of the more salient through-lines of the works assembled in The On Screen Program 3, Siting Cinema, is the idea of a pitch, or at the very least, a kind of proposition. Of course, any work of art is a proposition of some kind; it asks you to believe in it, to accept […]

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Last night (Friday) I went to the first performance of Sung Hwan Kim’s In the Room 3, a mix of improvised storytelling, live drawing, music, ephemeral chalk drawings, looped video and prerecorded performances. Topics and themes ranged from scary stories about misshapen dogs and foxes, to narratives about family relations and cultural displacement. If I […]

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Images 2009 Blog #3

The 2009 Images Festival’s opening gala event was titled Notes on Composing: 5 Collaborations in Film and Music. This was a collaboration between the Images Festival and Continuum Contemporary Music, and this collaboration was spawned through Continuum’s Artistic Director’s (Jennifer Waring) residency at the Gaudeamus Foundation in Amsterdam. This residency led […]

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The fourth installment in the series of international shorts is an example of very successful and effective curating. The five films in Sunday’s program enter into a dialog; they comment on and refer to each other. By watching them in sequence I think each film becomes more loaded with meaning than if I had watched […]

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