In seeking to dismantle the boundaries of film culture during 1972-74 Tony Conrad turned to extended duration as a conceptual armature. The Yellow Movies were a solution to the problem of how to produce films that could run for a lifetime. Only by assaulting the arena of industrial film-material manufacturing could a movie experience be generated that would change almost imperceptibly slowly: a movie that would be very slightly, yet measurably sensitive to light. The emulsion that served this purpose was cheap house paint. In another radical approach to film and duration/preservation, Tony Conrad also presents a series of Pickled Films, the result of a performance that involves methodically mixing raw film stock, vinegar, vegetables and spices.
Courtesy: Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, and Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
Also in this combined programme
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Emile Cohl: Early Works
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Two Pencil Durations
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Verité exposée
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Pickled Eastman Kodak 7302
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PanicMadSkin
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Frame by Frame
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The Art of the Overhead 2005
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Exploding Camera
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Light Spill
A projector in a room spills the contents of a film reel onto the floor. Over the course of the exhibition there emerges an uncontrollable… -
Picnoleptic City (Rotterdam Edit)
A graffiti project. The urban unconscious is what interests Åsdam: the relations between subjectivity and the State, along with the dialectic between -
One Second Drawings
Latham used a spray gun for a series of 60 one-second drawings which denoted ‘the least event’; an illustration of Latham’s view on the fundamental… -
Trigger
A performance Trigger, whereby each image, or flash of light is triggered by a live gunshot. In Trigger the interaction between the sound of the… -
Beirut Caoutchouc
The Lebanese artist designed a map of Beirut city, engraved in centimeters thick, lusterless rubber. The result is a monochrome, rather macabre puzzle
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 1973
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2007
- Medium/Format
- -
- Premiere status
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