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Gregory Zinman’s recent book Making Images Move: Handmade Cinema and the Other Arts explores the world of artists who create moving image work without using photographic processes, instead directly scratching or painting on celluloid or deteriorating it with bleach or through organic processes. For this program, he presents a recorded lecture along with a selection of works, largely abstract, that trace this alternative history. As he relates, “While the goal of elevating or transcending abstract painting remains evident in many of the works to be screened, their diverging concerns extend into a variety of other arenas—Brakhage’s engagement with literature, Uman’s feminist erotics, Nishikawa’s ecological ruminations—demonstrating the many ways that handmade cinema acts as counter-cinema, in concept, material, and execution.”

Films in this program:

Free Radicals

Len Lye, New Zealand, 1958/1979

4 mins, B&W, 16mm transferred to digital, BAMPFA Collection

Cocktail de rayas

Eduardo Darino, Uruguay, 1964

2 mins, Color, 16mm transferred to digital, From Filmmakers Cooperative

Dante Quartet

Stan Brakhage, United States, 1987

6 mins, Silent, Color, 16mm and 35mm transferred to digital, From Canyon Cinema, courtesy Janus Films

Flight

Greta Snider, United States, 1996

7 mins, Silent, B&W, 16mm transferred to digital, From Canyon Cinema

Removed

Naomi Uman, United States, 1999

6 mins, Color, 16mm transferred to digital, From Canyon Cinema

Knee Jerk

Kerry Laitala, United States, 2018

6 mins, Color, 16mm transferred to digital, From Canyon Cinema

Motion Picture Genocide

Robert Banks, United States, 1997/2002

4 mins, Color, 16mm transferred to digital, From Robert Banks

Recycled Realizations

Jon Behrens, United States, 2017

4 mins, Color, 35mm transferred to digital, From Canyon Cinema

Salt Crystals Spiral Jetty Dead Sea Five Year Film

Jennifer West, United States, 2013

1 min, Silent, Color, 70mm negative transferred to digital, From Jennifer West

sound of a million insects, light of a thousand stars

Tomonari Nishikawa, Japan, 2014

2 mins, Color, 35mm transferred to digital, From Canyon Cinema

St. Ignatius Church Exposure: Lenten Light Conversions

Lynn Marie Kirby, United States, 2004

2 mins, Silent, Color, Digital, From Lynn Marie Kirby