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Séance Light Cone - Le BAL / May 29, 2018

SURVIVAL OF FORMS - TEST OF THE GAZE

A cycle of screenings curated by Light Cone and Le BAL

How do we perceive what we observe? If no gaze nor interpretation is definitive, the work of Batia Suter pushes us to readjust our tenets. Confronted with the profusion of collected images, the eye is suspended in hesitation. Certainly, it recognizes the representations, but the montage between images creates a hiatus, an enigma that must be deciphered. Using experimental and artist films partially taken from the Light Cone catalogue, the screenings elaborate on three consecutive stages of Batia Suter's practice: collection, montage, and the test of the gaze.

Tickets: 9,50 euros (full) / 7,50 euros (reduced)
Screening + exhibition at Le BAL Batia Suter, Radial Grammar : 11,50 euros combined ticket to be purchased beforehand at Le BAL

TEST OF THE GAZE

Tuesday May 29, 2018, 20:00


Paying attention to things reveals a world in itself. Whether working with architecture, precise detail, or the progression of shots, each of the films (most of which are usually presented in a gallery context) explores the close relationship between cinema, space and light, a place where a cinema of attention constructs itself, from where emerges material on the threshold of perception, like in Tacita Dean's Providence. Proceeding by correspondences, Antoinette Zwirchmayr creates a visual language whose basic elements – the vegetal, the mineral, the corporal – combine according to a logic which seems to obey an intimate and secret code; Charlotte Moth composes infinite combinations of atmospheres using ever-renewed cinematographic tools; João Maria Gusmao & Pedro Paiva convoke objects and phenomena according to considerations of a philosophical, or even metaphysical, order to reexamine, not without humor, the terrain of the real.


DINING CARS
by Arianne OLTHAAR
2009 / Video / color / sound / 15' 17
FILMIC SKETCHES
by Charlotte MOTH
2015 / Video / color / sound / 9' 42
HOUSE AND UNIVERSE
by Antoinette ZWIRCHMAYR
2015 / 16mm / color / silent / 3' 45
EYE ECLIPSE
by João Maria GUSMAO & Pedro PAIVA
2007 / 16mm / color / silent / 2' 40
THREE SUNS
by João Maria GUSMAO & Pedro PAIVA
2009 / 16mm / color / silent / 0' 50
IN ITS FORM ASLEEP
In seiner Form eingeschlafen
by Antoinette ZWIRCHMAYR
2016 / 16mm / color / silent / 3' 30
WAVE
by João Maria GUSMAO & Pedro PAIVA
2011 / 16mm / color / silent / 2' 43
LES ARQUES
by Charlotte MOTH
2013 / Video / color / sound / 2' 31
VENUS DELTA
by Antoinette ZWIRCHMAYR
2016 / 16mm / color / silent / 4' 20
PROVIDENCE
by Tacita DEAN
2017 / 35mm / color / silent / 5' 00
LA RÉSERVE
by Charlotte MOTH
2017 / Video / color / sound / 8' 37

MORE INFORMATION

address Cinéma des Cinéastes
7, avenue de Clichy
75017 Paris
France
email lightcone@lightcone.org
related links THE SURVIVAL OF FORMS - Cinema cycle
BATIA SUTER, RADIAL GRAMMAR - Exhibition
rates reduced rate: 7.50 €
full rate: 9.50 €
screening & exhibition at LE BAL: 11.50 €