Observing Particles in Space
Sunday 10 November 2019, 7 pm
- Artists
- Len Lye, José Antonio Sistiaga, Melena Szlam, Deborah Stratmann, Robert Darroll and Jeanne Liotta
- Curators
- Albert Alcoz
- Venue
- Zumzeig
- Price
- 5 €
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This selection gathers together a series of cinematographic works whose aesthetics discloses different discursive ways to approach outer space. The screening unfolds into three abstract and evocative animations around the cosmos, and three documentations focusing on comets, the moon or the Milky Way. While triggering dialogue between the film inscriptions by Lye, the visual and pictorial music of Sistiaga, the astral multiplications of Szlam, the meteoric speculation of Stratman, the Martian imagery of Darroll and the hypnotic celestial filming of Liotta, this programme ultimately unfolds into a combination of non-galactic figuration and interstellar hyperrealism.
Programme
- Len Lye, 'Particles in space', 1979
- José Antonio Sistiaga, 'Impresiones en la alta atmósfera', 1989
- Malena Szlam, 'Lunar Almanac', 2013
- Deborah Stratmann, '...These Blazeing Starrs"', 2011
- Robert Darroll, 'Luna', 1986
- Jeanne Liotta, 'Observando el cielo', 2007
Artists: Len Lye, José Antonio Sistiaga, Melena Szlam, Deborah Stratmann, Robert Darroll, Jeanne Liotta
Albert Alcoz is a filmmaker, teacher and film curator of experimental film and artists’ video. PhD in Media Arts from Universidad Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona and Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona where he teaches cinema and video. He writes about avant-garde cinema, documentary film and video art for various print media as well as his website Visionary Film created in 2006. Since 2005 he has made several works in film and videographic formats, some of which are distributed by HAMACA or included at the Xcèntric Archive. He has been part of audiovisual platforms like Angular –a publisher of DVDs of international experimental film–, Venusplutón!, Blogs&Docs, Found Footage Magazine and curated the screenings series Amalgama, Cinema Anèmic and CRANC. He has written the books Resonancias fílmicas. El sonido en el cine estructural (1960-1981) (Shangrila, 2017) and Radicales libres. 50 películas esenciales del cine experimental (UOC, 2019).
Last update: July 17th, 2019
