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  • Konrad Steiner & Leslie Scalapino’s “way”

    The_floating_series_300dpi-1Text and Voice: Leslie Scalapino
    Image and Montage: Konrad Steiner
    Konrad Steiner in person
    Leslie Scalapino was an Oakland-based poet and experimental prose writer, often associated with the Language poets whose passing left a huge imprint on the international poetry scene. San Francisco filmmaker and curator Konrad Steiner’s feature length film is a visual response to Scalapino’s reading of her epic poem, way. The film includes a soundtrack of Scalapino reading her entire book-length poem, way, accompanied by a montage photographed and assembled by Steiner from many sources: original 16mm and video footage of San Francisco during the dot-com boom, excerpts of Japanese and American feature films, and internet found video. The intention of the project is to create a musical space in cinema for the interplay of language and image. Through counterpoint, phrasing, tempo, and rhythm, the visual and the verbal are braided in time. (2012, 68 min, HD video)
    This will be the premiere screening of the video version of the film.

  • artwork by Orlando de la Garza (opening reception)

    imageThe pieces of the exhibition are a selection of de la Garza’s production over the last 4 years. It encompasses his exploration with different topics such as commentary on organized religion, sexual philias, and his interest for portraiture.
     
    de la Garza continued his investigation and commentary on the Catholic Church after graduating with double major from the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (MIAD) in 2009. While at MIAD, de la Garza’s Communication Design thesis was an interactive/informative exhibition about unusual/covered facts about the religious institution. His painting thesis at MIAD titled ‘Amexica’ was an exploration of cultural identity with the use of popular imagery/characters from the United States and Mexico. Both of his theses were acclaimed by his professors at MIAD, and ‘Amexica’ was selected as ‘best of show’ from the Thesis Exhibition in May of 2009. Commentary on social and political issues had played an important role on de la Garza’s artistic production.
     
    In 2011 de la Garza started his graduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design, where he earned his Master in Fine Arts degree in 2013. While at Penn, de la Garza addressed issues in his work ranging from stereotypes of ethnic and sexual minorities to gun violence in his native Mexico.“Through the kinds of research and reading that is encouraged in an interdisciplinary art program, Orlando’s work began to expand both in terms of the media – with excursions into performance, photography and video – but also with more nuanced approaches to his subject. In his most recent body of work, the more illustrational and literal imagery has morphed into juicily painted and sexually raucous conflations of desserts and genitalia, a sort of Queer Cupcake Porn, deliciously rendered…“
           ­–Jackie Tileston.     Associate Professor in Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania.
    de la Garza currently resides in San Francisco California and continues producing work. His latest pieces demonstrate, although carefully executed paintings, a much more loose application noted in his visible brushstrokes and texture. Such quality started to emerge from his previous body of work depicting genitalia and gastronomy.

  • Sunday, April 13at 8:00pm: TRANSPARENT THINGS: music/film conversations between Rick Bahto & Paul Clipson

    An evening of experimental films, music videos, and works by Rick Bahto and Paul Clipson that feature their collaborations with sound artists and musicians. A conversations between the filmmakers will follow the screening.
    The program will include:

    MARIENDBAD (2012) Rick Bahto, 6 minutes, 35mm slides & 2 x 8mm on HD video, music:
    Marienbad by Julia Holter
    “I wanted to make something that would serve as a visual accompaniment to Julia Holter’s song “Marienbad”, but would not be strictly tied to it. I utilized multiple film projections interacting and interfering with one another in a single composition. The material seen in this video was made with Kodak Tri-X regular 8 mm motion picture film and Kodak Plus-X 35 mm still film, all of it processed by hand. The video is a single take documenting a live performance using two 8 mm projectors and a single 35 mm projector all aimed at the same space on a screen; there is no digital manipulation of the images, and no edits have been made to the recording.”

    OTHER STATES (2013), Paul Clipson 6 min, Super, color, sound by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma U.S. Premiere
    The third in a trilogy (with SPEAKING CORPSE and ANOTHER VOID) of films studying the hallucinatory effects of multilayered music and multi-compositional night imagery, focusing on fierce fragmentations of eyeballs, ATM machines and beer signs.
    Filmed in the Lower East Side and on 42nd Street in New York, and in the Tenderloin of San Francisco.

    FINALE (2013) 8 minutes, Super 8, b/w, music: Tragedy Finale by Julia Holter
    A variety of translations (and re-translations), featuring the Thomases Hardy and Bernhard.

    LIGHT YEAR (2013) 9.5 min., 16mm, music by Tashi Wada S.F. Premiere
    A commission for the San Francisco Exploratorium that I did as part of a Cinema Artist residency, this film-collage studies the water systems and architecture of the San Francisco waterfront, in abstract and formal contexts. The musical score by Tashi Wada is performed by cellists Charles Curtis and Judith Hamann.

    WORLD (2013) 5 minutes, Super 8, color & b/w, music: World by Julia Holter
    Several walks around town, with Rick Bahto, Julia Holter, and Mark So.

    DIFFICULT LOVES (2013) Super 8mm, color/B&W, 3.5 minutes, music by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma
    A love poem of intimate immensities, featuring a theater of waters, lights and flowers. Filmed in San Francisco’s Botanical Gardens and my backyard. -P.C.

    MAXIM’S l (2013) 6 1/2 minutes, Super 8, b/w, music: Maxim’s I by Julia Holter
    A desktop ballet, featuring photographs taken during the studio recordings of Holter’s third full-length album Loud City Song.

    ABSTEIGEND (2012) Super 8mm, B&W, 6 minutes, music by Evan Caminiti An impression of the industrial yards of Brooklyn, New York, as well as Oakland, California.
    FOR PAUL CLIPSON (2011) Rick Bahto, Super 8mm, silent
    VOID REDUX (2013) Super 8mm, color, 6.5 minutes
    A nervous portrait of a Zagreb train station filmed from the tracks. The imminent impact leads to seeing stars.- P.C.