MEDIA STUDY/BUFFALO - the Vasulkas

March 30 (Friday)
8:00 PM
207 Delaware Avenue
SELECTIONS PROGRAM II
Vestibule (In 3 Episodes) (1977-78)
By Ken Kobland . Color. Sound . 24
minutes .
My third film about buildings and
emotions .
Displaced Person (1981)
-K . K . 1982
By Dan Eisenberg . Black and White . .
Sound . 12 .5 minutes .
history :
often gives us more than we bargained
for,
always more than we're looking for.
a . private understanding of how
specific historical moments
and characters have shaped my life .
my initial impulses : if no conclusions
are to be drawn perhaps
because history has too long been a
domain for experts while
we allow ourselves the comfort of
explanation, resolution .
Ornamentals (1979)
-D.E .
By Abigail Child . Color. Silent . 10
minutes .
This film was/is crucial to my understanding
of composition, to my desire
for-an encyclopedic construction (the
world 'out' there), and reaffirmed by allegiance
to rhythm, specifically the
rhythm, of body/nerve/mind .
- A.C .
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Sorted Details (1979)
By Charles Wright . Color. Sound . 12
minutes .
Shared shape, color, or movement links
each of these varied fragments of urban
landscape with the next . Each
sight has its own naturalistic ambient
sound . As the film yanks you from spot
to spot and from moment to moment,
don't take for granted the direction of
gravity, the direction or speed of time,
or the brightness of vision .
-CW.
Gently Down the Stream (1981)
By Su Friedrich . Black and White. Silent
. 14 minutes .
The text of Gently Down the Stream is
a succession of fourteen dreams taken
from eight years of my journals. They
were shuffled out of their original
chronological order for the purpose of
coherence and because often we
know/dream something long after, or
before, we can use it in our lives . The
text is scratched onto the film (with approximately
18 frames per word) so that
you hear any voice but that of a recorded
narrator. The images were chosen
for their indirect but potent correspondence
to the dream content . I am not
interested in recreating a "dream
scene" in film : dreams do it infinitely
better themselves .
-S . F.
Frames from Barbara Lattanzi's Skins.
Image from Su Friedrich's Gently Down The Stream.
Projection Instructions (1976)
By Morgan Fisher . Black and White .
Sound . 4 minutes .
This film is a score to be performed by
the projectionist, ordinarily a passive
mechanic who interferes to the minimum
with the film's uneventful passage
through his machine . The film
consists only of a succession of writ-
ten cards that are simultaneously read
by a narrator. This text, written and
spoken, is a set of instructions to the
projectionist to manipulate the controls
of his machine. Under ordinary circumstances
this would be an egregious
disruption of the film, but in this case
only by doing so is the projectionist
projecting the film correctly.
-M.F
Closer Outside (1979-81)
By Vincent Grenier. Color. Silent . 10
minutes .
The precisions and idiosyncracies of
movements associated with domestic
activities are closely stared at ; or as it
sometimes happens, watched carefully
through the peripheral vision . This
while rhyming, is done in alternance,
thus creating sudden rushes in the
mind while spaces collapse. Also, light
burns wedges in this film, recalling . . .
V.G .
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