"Between the Still and Moving Image" Film Program
The Whitney Museum of American Art
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This film series examines the relationship between the still and moving image from the 1930s to the present, by artists, filmmakers, and photographers who use stillness, cinematographic composition, and movement to question the conventions of both photography and cinema. Films such as Hollis Frampton's Lemon (1969), a study of a lemon as light moves across its waxy surface, and Larry Gottheim's Fog Line (1970), in which trees and a landscape gradually emerge on the screen as a thick fog begins to lift, explore how photography is part of the DNA of cinema. Slide works, including Marcel Broodthaers' Bateau Tableau (1973), a conceptual study of a maritime painting bought at a Paris flea market, will also be presented along with a group of landscape and garden films by James Benning, Babette Mangolte, Marie Menken, and Peter Hutton that construct the photographic within the moving cinematic form. To coincide with the William Eggleston retrospective, on view from November 7, 2008, through January 25, 2009, the series will also feature Eggleston's video Stranded in Canton (1973–74/2005), a home-movie portrait of the artist's friends and acquaintances in the American South in which blues singer Furry Lewis and Jerry Lee Lewis make fleeting appearances, Michael Almereyda's acclaimed documentary William Eggleston in the Real World (2005), and Reiner Holzemer's documentary William Eggleston: Photographer amongst others.
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Schedule
from October 01, 2008 to November 30, 2008
Artist(s)
Hollis Frampton, Larry Gottheim, Marcel Broodthaers, James Benning, Babette Mangolte, Marie Menken, Peter Hutton et al.