INTL PROGRAM 2 • THU MAY 24 • 7:30 PM
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A Preface to Red
Jonathan Schwartz, USA, 16mm, 6 min, 2011
“Beginning with the nighttime taillights of a traffic jam, A Preface to Red soon enters daylight with a series of bright forms in the titular hue. Many are composed against the hot colour temperature of the Turkish sun, and before long the Constructivist beauty of Schwartz’s semi ethnographic fragments are overpowered by a violent, eardamning sound design, wavering somewhere between white noise, stadium cheering, and the cyclical whinny of an unseen factory machine.” — Michael Sicinski Jonathan Schwartz studied at MassArt. He makes films and other sound/image projects. Many of these projects have shown at venues such as the IFF Rotterdam, the “Wavelengths” program at the Toronto IFF, the London Film Festival, and the 17th edition of Media City. He lives in Battleboro, Vermont and is an Assistant Professor in Film Studies at Keene State College.