Light Industry - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Light Industry. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
G.B. Jones "The Lollipop Generation"
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[0]- Media: Film - Video installation
- 2008-12-16 - 2008-12-16
Toronto¹s G.B. Jones--creatrix of queer punk cult touchstones The Troublemakers and The Yo-Yo Gang--arrives at Light Industry to present the New York premiere of her long-awaited feature The Lollipop (...)
"Rhinestones and Hellfire" Film Program
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- 2008-12-02 - 2008-12-02
Evangelical Christian broadcasting has been big business since the dawn of radio, when showmen émigrés from the United States established mega-powered "border blaster" stations in Mexico, out of the jurisdiction (...)
"Too Early, Too Late" Exhibition
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- 2008-11-09 - 2008-11-09
“In June 1980, the Straubs spent two weeks filming in the French countryside. They were seen in places as improbable as Treogan, Mottreff, Marbeuf and Harville. They were seen prowling close to big cities: (...)
Matt McCormick Exhibition
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- 2008-11-07 - 2008-11-07
Portland filmmaker Matt McCormick comes to Light Industry, presenting a collection of recent works, including the brand-spanking new Light Tiger Eye, as well as The Problem with Machines that Communicate (...)
"It's Always Halloween" Exhibition
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- 2008-10-31 - 2008-10-31
Pittsburgh artist Jacob Ciocci will present a new 20-minute mix of original videos and animations. He will also be premiering his new performance I Let My Nightmares Go which uses a video projector and (...)
"Far From Vietnam" Exhibition
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- 2008-10-28 - 2008-10-28
"One of the most powerful documentary statements about the opposition to the U.S. involvement in Vietnam. In fact, I would cite Emile de Antonio's 1968 In the Year of the Pig and the collectively made (...)
"Genre Trouble" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Film
- 2008-10-21 - 2008-10-21
Su Friedrich Quote; I’m not a genre freak; I like films done in many ways for many reasons. So, in the spirit of enjoying a film noir as much as I enjoy an ethnographic film or a costume drama, I will (...)
"Crossroads: A Tribute to Bruce Conner" Exhibition
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- 2008-10-14 - 2008-10-14
The passing of Bruce Conner in July of this year allowed for reflection on his influence, which proves substantial and pervasive as we continue through the first years of the 21st century. In the expansion (...)
"Come Softly - Be Continuous Often" Exhibition
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- 2008-10-07 - 2008-10-07
The hallucinated childhood, the painted veil (described by Shelley), the natural world, the mirage ahead, underfoot and beneath the skin. What are we made of? Sugar and snails hammers and nails, bliss (...)
"Waiting for Godot in New Orleans: The bootleg video." Exhibition
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- 2008-09-23 - 2008-09-23
For five nights in November 2007, artist Paul Chan, working with New York's Classical Theatre of Harlem, and the public arts group Creative Time, staged free site-specific outdoor performances of Samuel (...)
"Echoes of Silence" Exhibition
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- 2008-09-16 - 2008-09-16
Echoes of Silence, Peter Emmanuel Goldman, 16mm, 1965, 75 mins "Peter Goldman is the most exciting new filmmaker in recent years. Echoes of Silence, his first film, is a stunning piece of work." - Susan (...)
"Sax, Sex, Six, Sox, Sux" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Film - Performance Art
- 2008-09-09 - 2008-09-09
The evening will include: Live sax, whiskey shots, found films and videos, and a dead man’s dance. In the immortal words of Cecil C. Sharp, poet of pulp and porn, the saxophone is an instrument comparable (...)
K8 Hardy "Video Art and Film"
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- 2008-09-02 - 2008-09-02
Work to be shown: New Report Morning Edition, Wynne Greenwood and K8 Hardy, 3-channel video, 2005 As reporters for the station WKRH, Greenwood/Henry Stein-Acker-Hill and Hardy/Henry Irigaray do a personal (...)
Fred Halsted "Two Films"
[0] [0]- Media: Film
- 2008-08-26 - 2008-08-26
Born in Long Beach in 1941 and raised all over the state of California, Fred Halsted rarely left his adopted city of Los Angeles. Capturing the city as few other films could, L.A. Plays Itself (1972), (...)
"Animanimal/Mammal/Manimal" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Film - Video installation
- 2008-08-19 - 2008-08-19
This exhibition presents films, videos, paintings and performances made in response to, or concerned with, the following narrative: 1. One imagines there was a time when there was no separation between (...)
"Public Opinion Labratory" Performance
[0] [0]- Media: Performance Art
- 2008-08-12 - 2008-08-12
Public Opinion Labratory presents "All Magic Sands: Reels 1 + 2" Featuring the return of LAMP/LICHT: Andrew Lampert and Alan Licht. And also "Our Dream Deferred", a solo performance by Andrew Lampert, (...)
"Content Producer " Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Performance Art
- 2008-08-05 - 2008-08-05
Artist Cory Arcangel appears at Light Industry to perform the first complete and authoritative version of his now-notorious Bruce Springsteen Born to Run Glockenspiel Addendum. This appearance marks the (...)
"outsite with the others " Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Video installation
- 2008-07-29 - 2008-07-29
The summer is all about the outdoors and outdoor activities. In the program out site with the others, artists who traveled there send out insights, views and instructions on how to face reality, when suddenly (...)
"Spectacle Spectacular" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2008-07-22 - 2008-07-22
On the hottest day of the summer, Ben Coonley and Michael Smith planted a tripod-mounted camcorder in the center of the Light Industry loft space and made several dozen 360-degree pans to catalogue every (...)
"Games" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Other - Art Talk
- 2008-07-15 - 2008-07-15
Game artist Mark Essen, a.k.a. Messhof, will install five playable games at Light Industry, including two new titles: Stenography Hero, a competitive text-based stenography simulator in the spirit of Guitar (...)
"People Are Strange (When You're a Stranger) " Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Performance Art
- 2008-07-08 - 2008-07-08
"People Are Strange" will be a night of multimedia performance and projections revolving around the release of Marisa Olson's new artist book, Poems I Wrote While Listening to the Doors, 1992-1994 (Before (...)
"Half of the People Are Stoned and the Other Half Are Waiting for the Next Election" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Video installation
- 2008-07-01 - 2008-07-01
A screening of activism-oriented video, performance documentation, and new media from 2004. As the race to the White House consumes our nation's collective attention, let's take a look back to the 2004 (...)
Coleen Fitzgibbon "Internal Systems"
[0] [0]- Media: Video installation
- 2008-06-17 - 2008-06-17
Between 1973 and 1976 Coleen Fitzgibbon made some of the most rigorous abstract films to date. This program revisits some of these early 16mm films from an artist who is perhaps best known as one of the (...)
"No Idle Hands" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Video installation
- 2008-06-10 - 2008-06-10
Handcraft--absorbing, obsessive, mysterious, political, communal and mythical--is the subject of these documentaries, which range from exhaustively researched to casually recorded and even imagined.
"Tuning a Deaf Ear" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Video installation
- 2008-06-03 - 2008-06-03
A program of transmissions from Pittsburgh featuring small gauge oddities, punk documents from the late 1970's, home movies, industrial films of heavy industry and selections from the George Romero nostalgia (...)
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