OBJECTS, LESSENED
3/30/23 | 7 pm | free
Union Cinema, Milwaukee
Let's start with some big pronouncements: before film wasn't film it was film and film was a lot of things, like light, like sound, like projection psychological and literal, like plastic, like ribbon. There's an excitement to taking the thing as a thing then asking the questions it might that we can't but that we are, like a kind of Object Oriented Ontology whose first order of utterance is OOO!
Arranged by Jesse Malmed
3/30/23 | 7 pm | free
Union Cinema, Milwaukee
Selina Trepp — Rotation
2 minute loop | 2016 | silent | video
“This piece rotates around its own axis, it is a movie with no beginning and no end, it goes around and around, like the world.”
-ST
Stephanie Barber — 3 Peonies
3 minutes | 2017 | sound |16mm
“What becomes apparent is the humor possible in material interactions and the tender and sometimes melodramatic symbolism of cut flowers.”
-SB
Christopher Young — Object Lesson
10 minutes | 1941 | sound | 16mm
"The transient objects of human history - sculptures, weapons, religious icons - are placed within the eternal in nature, creating juxtapositions that progress toward chaos and flames, then back to the eternal."
-R. Bruce Elder
LeAnn Bartok — Skyworks, Wind & Fire 8 minutes | 1975 | silent | 16mm
“I believe it's the fastest art on record.”
-LB
Lenny Lipton — Doggie Diner and The Return of Doggie Diner
7 minutes | 1969 | sound | 16mm
“The prospective renter needs no better recommendation than this: Peter Kubelka purchased a print for the Austrian Film Archive. Rent it while it's hot.”
-LL
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Michael Snow — Breakfast / Table-Top Dolly
15 minutes | 1976 | sound | 16mm
"WAVELENGTH before breakfast. A continuous zoom traverses the space of a breakfast table, serving as a grand metaphor for indigestion."
-Deke Dusinberre
Kerry Laitala — Retrospectroscope
5 minutes | 1997 | silent | 16mm
“…gives the ecstatic treatment to an already ecstasy-inducing subject… akin to watching a sorceress wrangling lightning bolts in a dark, mystery-laden cavern."
-Brecht Andersch
Paul Glabicki — Object Conversation
10 minutes | 1985 | sound | 16mm
“…objects … are presented, defined, demonstrated, discussed, spoken about, juxtaposed and progressively re-invented during the course of a multi-layered visual and aural conversation."
-PG
Jodie Mack — Glistening Thrills
8 minutes | 2013 | sound | 16mm
“A shiny otherworld of holographic reverie pairs dollar store gift bags and haunting resound, unfolding an effervescent melancholy in three parts.”
-JM
Scott Wolniak — The Ratio of Effort to Effect
one minute | 2010 | sound | video
“Recorded 10/10/2010 at the Green Gallery East, Milwaukee, WI.”
-SW
* (all ellipses by Jesse Malmed)
