Signals: Regained
Life Is an Opinion, Fire a Fact Karen Yasinsky Radically deconstructive in its interpretation of a famous Tarkovskysequence, Yaskinksy reverses the original order of the sequence and blends it with white noise and hand-drawn sequences. She also ties her act of appropriation in with a suicide scene from Bresson and other, more serene images and sounds.
Signals: Regained
Unveiling Avery Willard A recent portrait and a series of vintage homo-erotic films by a forgotten pioneer from the 1960s; a Broadway photographer with a string of hidden talents: physique artist, gay activist, experimental filmmaker, leatherman, pornographer, founder of NY’s first gay newspaper. Public SCREENINGS Sat 26-1 22:00 LantarenVenster 2 Sun 27-1 22:15 LantarenVenster 2
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USA, 2013 | colour/b&w, video, 10 min, no dialogue Prod: Karen Yasinsky | Cam: Karen Yasinsky | Ed: Karen Yasinsky | Prod Des: Karen Yasinsky | Sound Des: Karen Yasinsky | Music: Robert Turner, Don Maxwell | Print/Sales: Karen Yasinsky
Dream Boy
Quod Erat Demonstrandum
A play with the porn standard of a minimum of narrative in order to stage a series of ritualised stripteases. Stored in a cardboard box in New York Public Library’s Manuscripts and Archives Division, the Avery Willard Collection contained several gems so wonderfully strange and enchanting that they suggested a fascinating life behind them.
Fabrice Aragno A collaborator since 2002 (Notre Musique), Aragno did not want to make a documentary ‘on’ but ‘with’ Godard. The latter decided on a mathematical approach. The TV station asked for 26 minutes, and so Godard suggested they make 26 one-minute sequences, and have 4 shots in each sequence, all recycled from his work. Switzerland, 2012 | colour/b&w, DCP, 26 min, French Prod: Gaspard Lamunière | Prod Comp: RTS Swiss Television | Sc: Jean-Luc Godard | Print/Sales: RTS Swiss Television
Avery Willard
USA, 1966 | colour, DCP, 15 min, no dialogue Prod: Avery Willard | With: Paul Ritchards | Print/Sales: New York Public Library
In Search of Avery Willard Cary Kehayan
Crystal World Pia Borg Pia Borg uses stop-motion film and liveaction choreography to evoke modern and historical visions of the future. A viral crystal transforms trees, animals and humans into jewels, suspended forever in the present. The crystallisation is visualised by mirrors, prisms, models and time-lapse photography. WORLD PREMIERE
UK/Australia, 2013 | colour/b&w, video, 11 min, no dialogue Prod: Edward Lawrenson | Prod Comp: Marker | Sc: Pia Borg | Cam: Pia Borg | Ed: Pia Borg | Prod Des: Pia Borg | Sound Des: Joel Stern | Music: Joel Stern | Print/Sales: Marker
During the production of the feature film Keep the Lights On, Ira Sachs and Cary Kehayan heard about Willard through singer Antony Hegarty of Antony and the Johnsons. Through unique documents and rare interviews with collaborators, friends and preeminent film historians, they trace Willard’s provocative career. USA, 2012 | colour, video, 23 min, English Prod: Cary Kehayan, Amanda Hammett | Prod Comp: Charlie Guidance Productions | Cam: David Barreda | Ed: Cary Kehayan | Music: Daniel Quinn | Print/Sales: Charlie Guidance Productions
Reflections Avery Willard Double exposure was a recurring technique in Willard’s film work. As the camera moves elegantly across Paul Ritchards’ body, abstract, superimposed images of New York City drift in and out of frame. The urban landscape begins to align with the landscape of the male physique. USA, 1966 | colour, DCP, 7 min, no dialogue Prod: Avery Willard | With: Paul Ritchards | Print/Sales: New York Public Library
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