Sweethearts (for Emmett Williams)
In the early sixties, concrete sound poet Emmett Williams (1925-2007) was the European coordinator of Fluxus and a founding member of the Domaine Poétique in Paris. His close friendship and collaboration with Robert Filliou resulted in many co-productions and co-inventions.
The key to this piece is translation, or rather mistranslation and misunderstanding. In his performance work (Lampert is also an archivist and programmer at Anthology Film Archives), the act of projecting plays a central role. Here, two women obey instructions in front of the projected letters A and B. The director has control over the letter C.
Also in this combined programme
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Shutter Interface
Two overlapping film loops are projected that cycle through various colour permutations, creating a percussive composition. -
Razor Blades
An expanded film in the tradition of the stroboscopic films which affect our eyes on a physical level, causing an almost hypnotic transference of ligh
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2007
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2008
- Length
- 30'
- Medium/Format
- -
