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Symmetries and abstractions: Films and videos by Scott Stark

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 21/04/2014 - 17:35

With Scott Stark in Person!

White Light Cinema is excited to welcome Scott Stark, who will present a small sampling of his film and video work. Stark has selected four new and recent works—Bloom (2012), Speechless (2008), the double 16mm film Nocturnal symmetries (2014), and his amazing digital video The realist (2013)—along with an early film, Hotel Cartograph (1983).

Together, these five works are a mapping of many diverse aspects of Stark’s artistic practice. From his formal investigations into symmetry, patterning, abstraction, and mirroring that can be found in many of his works to inquiries into the perceptual and phenomenological nature of the media (film, video, digital) to the act of seeing, and questions of representation. They are also visually rich works, concerned as much about color and texture as they are with structure. They are about rhythm and movement, either on screen or in the editing. Sometimes they are humorous. Sometimes they are political (in the broadest sense). Sometimes they are provocative/provoking. Always they are stimulating—visually and intellectually.

Over the last 34 years Stark has created an uncompromised body of work that is remarkable in its complexity and simplicity, its rigor and playfulness, and its focus and openness.

Dates:
Wednesday, April 30, 2014 - 19:00 to Thursday, May 1, 2014 - 18:55
Venue:
The Nightingale - Chicago, United States
Celluloid Therapy: The Diary Films of Anne Charlotte Robertson (1949–2013)

By Marcos Ortega on Sat, 28/12/2013 - 17:49

White Light Cinema and The Nightingale Present

The experimental film community lost one of its most original and distinctive voices last fall with the passing of Framingham, Massachusetts Super-8 filmmaker Anne Charlotte Robertson. Robertson’s films (and later digital videos) were visceral, haunting, emotionally raw works that opened up the artist’s life and her anxieties, obsessions, compulsions, addictions, and mental illness in unprecedented ways. Robertson’s films, now housed at Harvard Film Archive, are powerful documents of maintaining oneself with art, sharply incisive self-analysis, and caustic wit while struggling with an often times debilitating illness.

White Light Cinema is proud to present a selection of five early works by Robertson (whose films have not been seen in Chicago in well over a decade, and only a handful of times before that), in new digital transfers. [Robertson rarely screened her originals, and only when she was present. The previous solo show of Robertson’s work in Chicago, which I was fortunate to present at Chicago Filmmakers, was from VHS.]

These are startlingly moving works about the fragility and resilience of the human spirit. Robertson’s legacy is a remarkably brave example of really living life through art.

Dates:
Sunday, February 9, 2014 - 19:00 to Monday, February 10, 2014 - 18:55
Venue:
The Nightingale - Chicago, United States
Gate Shock: New and Rare Films by Luther Price

By Marcos Ortega on Tue, 06/09/2011 - 02:10
White Light Cinema Presents
Gate Shock: New and Rare Films by Luther Price
With Luther Price in Person!
Saturday, September 17, 2011, 19h
The Nightingale
1084 N. Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago, Illinois

White Light Cinema is pleased to present the second program (we must like him!) of work by acclaimed experimental filmmaker Luther Price this year – this time with Price in person, to introduce and discuss his work.

For more than twenty-five years, Boston-area filmmaker has been creating a raw and visceral body of work that challenges, infuriates, shocks, fascinates, and, sometimes, soothes viewers who have think they’ve seen it all.

His is a gritty cinema: initially made in the intimate Super-8 format and now mostly in 16mm. It is a handcrafted cinema, with dozens of splices (which seem to want to fly apart at any moment), decayed and distressed footage (buried in the ground), and hand-painted frames (which shed a fine dust when projected).
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The Complete Films of Fred Camper

By Marcos Ortega on Wed, 02/03/2011 - 07:27
The Complete Films of Fred Camper
March 4 & April 16, 2011, 20h
Fred Camper in Person at Both Screenings
The Nightingale, 1084 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL 60642

White Light Cinema is extremely pleased to present these very rare public screenings of the complete films of Fred Camper. Camper has been a thoughtful and articulate writer on film for over forty years (much of his writing is available on his website) and, more recently, has been producing an astonishing body of digital artworks. His earlier filmmaking practice, however, is little known. Long out of distribution (some never in distribution), his short 16mm and Super-8mm films have not been publicly screened for decades. And this presentation of his stunning feature-length Super-8mm film SN is only its third-ever public showing. These films may not be screened again for many years, due to their irreplaceability.
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Events