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DESCRIPTION:Free admission! A discussion between Larry Gottheim and Madison
  Brookshire will follow the screening.\n\n \n\nLarry Gottheim is an avant-
 garde filmmaker and a founding figure of the influential Cinema Department
  at Binghamton University. His early films are often beautiful meditations
  on the experience of vision. Barn Rushes (1971)\, once described by Tony 
 Conrad as “elegant yet rustic in its simplicity of execution\,” is jus
 t such a work of poetic minimalism. Like Monet’s haystacks\, Barn Rushes
  is a loving portrait of an inanimate object: a careful study of qualities
  of light as they change over time. This program pairs this early key work
  of 70’s experimental film with Natural Selection (1983)\, a brilliant e
 xample from the next phase of Gottheim’s filmic career: the use of form 
 to interrogate the relationship between sound\, image\, language\, and per
 ception in cinema. Natural Selection intercuts several bodies of material 
 originally created by students during a year-long seminar and uses excerpt
 s from Darwin’s text to both illuminate and punctuate the combined foota
 ge. Even so\, the source and nature of the sounds and imagery\, as well as
  the way in which they relate to one another\, remain mysterious\, their c
 onnections slowly unfolding over time. Between these two films\, we see a 
 wealth of approaches to sound\, structure\, and meaning in cinema.\n\n \n\
 nProgram\nBarn Rushes\, 1971\, color\, silent\, 34 minutes\nNatural Select
 ion\, 1983\, color\, sound\, 35 minutes\n\nFilms will be screened digitall
 y.\n\n \n\nAbout Larry Gottheim\n\nLarry Gottheim is a seminal figure in A
 merican avant-garde cinema. His films combine the simplicity and directnes
 s of early cinema with the rigor of minimalism and the conceptual precisio
 n of process art. As the founder of the first and highly influential cinem
 a department in the SUNY system at Binghamton University\, Gottheim played
  a pivotal role in shaping experimental film education in the United State
 s. In recognition of his groundbreaking work\, he was awarded the 2023 Gug
 genheim Fellowship in Film.\n\n \n\n“Gottheim’s cinema is a quest of o
 rigins. The films elaborate a response to the fictions of our world\, the 
 construction of images and sounds\, the repeating cycles of life and natur
 e. The profoundness of Gottheim’s act is to elaborate a body of work out
 side of fashion and within a search for an authentic language of cinematic
  discourse.” (John Hanhardt\, on the occasion of the presentation of the
  full “Elective Affinities” cycle at the Whitney Museum\, 1981).\n\n \
 n\nAbout Madison Brookshire\n\nMadison Brookshire lives in Los Angeles\, w
 here he makes films\, paintings\, and performances. His work invites viewe
 rs to become aware of perceptual processes and the sensuous experience of 
 time. He frequently collaborates with musicians and composers\, such as Ez
 ra Buchla\, LCollective\, Laura Steenberge\, Mark So\, and Tashi Wada. He 
 teaches in the Departments of Art and the History of Art at the University
  of California\, Riverside.\n\nImage: Still from Natural Selection\, 1983.
  Courtesy of Larry Gottheim
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LOCATION:Culver Center of the Arts
SUMMARY:Barn Rushes & Natural Selection
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CATEGORIES:Film & Screenings
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