Steve Roden: ‘This film is part of a joint project between LACE and the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. Artists were given access to the Joan Brown Fluxus collection and archives. I used a score by Jackson Mac Low that originally appeared in a book of scores and concrete poetry called An Anthology, edited by Mac Low and Lamonte Young. Mac Low’s score states: “The text on the opposite page may be used in any way as a score for solo or group readings, musical or dramatic performances, looking, smelling, anything else &/or nothing at all.’ I created a simple instruction for each of the 93 different characters that appear in the score (letters, numbers, punctuation marks and symbols) and used the score to generate a film work, a sound composition, and a group voice piece – all compressed into a film and its soundtrack.” ’
Also in this combined programme
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Nostalgia (April 2001 to Present)
‘The picture of the world that’s presented to the public has only the remotest relation to reality.’ (Noam Chomsky) -
Transcript
Record of an evening’s eavesdropping in a New York apartment in October 1953, four months after the execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. -
Unzufrieden
Out of the window of a Berlin apartment, a banner is hanging with the exclamation: Unzufrieden (dissatisfied). -
I Remember Now, We Never Danced, I Miss You, Good-Bye
Everyday movement, woven into a dance of memory and loss.
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2006
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2007
- Length
- 15'
- Medium/Format
- DV cam NTSC
