"Genre Trouble" Exhibition
Light Industry
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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 screen a number of films that represent what I see as various genres within the avant-garde. (Yes, Hollywood thinks they can and should have everything that’s identifiable and nameable while we’re just constantly “experimenting”, but I say we avant-garders and avant-gardettes have also laid claim to genres—albeit sometimes unwittingly, but that’s where our love of experimenting comes in!)
The program isn’t totally set, but it will cover the following genres (and more): the single-shot film, the film that combines strict formalism with direct political content (n.b.: someone will win a prize at the screening for coining a name for that one), the documentary, the purely visual, the primarily text-based, the animated, the sexy, the found footage, the led-by-narration, and maybe even the silly.
I recognize that “silly” might not (yet) be a genre. We can discuss that.
Media
Schedule
October 21, 2008 from 20:00
Artist(s)
Peggy Ahwesh, Diane Bonder, David Ellsworth, Kyle Kibbe, Mara Mattuschka