"Stormy Weather" Exhibition
Light Industry
This event has ended.
An excavation. A recent Boston transplant and a veteran city dweller who has been making and programming films in Beantown for over forty years provide a glimpse into the rich, varied, and little told histories of experimental cinema in Boston, the same town that "has come to be recognized as the fountainhead of American documentary filmmaking" (Scott MacDonald).
Marked by two distinct periods of concentrated activity, these histories have been equally impacted by the transient nature of a region organized around academic institutions—to and from which students, teachers, and artists come and go—and the community and organizations forged by longtime residents who claim Boston as their home.
The films selected for this program share more than the geographic location in which they were produced. Perhaps in some way connected to Fonoroff's observation that Boston practitioners work[ed] "at the margins of the art world," these films have been described as edgy, gritty, raw, messy, difficult. Their intensity derives from bold formal concerns, from acute representations of psychological states and inner landscapes—this is a deeply personal, expressive cinema. Stormy.
Media
Schedule
March 10, 2009 from 19:30
Artist(s)
Tom Chomont, Andrew Meyer, Marjorie Keller, Dan Barnett, Nina Fonoroff, Pelle Lowe