EVENEMENT SPECIAL : Nicky Hamlyn – Live Film Performance à l’Etna

En avant-première de l’ouverture de l’exposition Brownian Motion, une exposition des films 16 mm récents de Nicky Hamlyn à la The Film Gallery à Paris, L’Etna vous propose une performance live de Nicky Hamlyn.

L’artiste britannique fera deux performances: Four x Loops (1974) pour quatre projecteurs 16mm et Rigns (2012) revisitant Fourxloops. Nous projecterons également deux films rares en 16 mm, Panni (2005) et Object Studies (2005), tous deux filmés en Ombrie occidentale.

Programme:
FOUR X LOOPS
20 mins. (1974), Four 16mm loops, black and white, silent

“This film uses the projector as a part/unit in a larger structure. Instead of being used as a passive device for projecting discreteimages, it is used as a dynamic tool with active possibilities beyond its normal role” (from original notes for Scottish Arts Council Gallery screening, Edinburgh, 1976).

FOUR X LOOPS arose from two earlier films made on Standard 8, an old home-movie format. The film comes as a 25 foot roll, 16mm wide, which, if left in this form, produces four frames within the 16mm frame when projected. This led to the idea of using four 16mm projectors to produce images that would be composites of a larger permutating, grid structure.

Rings

four identical 16mm loops for movable projectors, silent, duration variable, (2012).

Rings revisits the earlier work 4 X LOOPS (1974), which also consists of four identical loops running on four projectors, which are moved during the projection to create a variety of configurations, both geometric and more fluid.

Panni
16mm, 3 mins. (2005)

Panni was shot in a rain-lashed garden in central Italy, in the last week of 2004. It depicts the layers, veils and mattes created by washing on a line. A mix of interlaced, single-frame sequences and normal shooting was deployed to explore ideas about translucency, opacity and looking-through.

Object Studies
16mm, 16 mins. (2005)

Object Studies is organised around a colour scheme based loosely on the hues of the colour temperature scale; brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, white. Time-lapse, interlaced, single-frame sequences and lap-dissolves were deployed to explore density, translucency and the interactions of different kinds of cast-shadows. The space between the camera and its subject is also explored. Space is flattened, collapsed, expanded and bridged in diverse ways.

Nicky Hamlyn est Professeur de Cinéma expérimental et conférencier en Fine Art Media à l’Université for The Creative Arts, Canterbury, Kent; il lest également conférencier en Communication Visuelle, Royal College of Art, London. Il a réalisé plus de cinquante films en 16mm, video ou installations depuis 1974. Ces travaux ont été exposés dans divers festivals mondiaux et ont fait l’objet d’une exposition personnelle à l’Images Festival de Toronto, au New York Film Festival, au London Film Festival et à la Tate Britain. Hamlyn était un acteur important de la London Filmmakers Co-operative, co-fondateur et membre du collectif éditorial de l’Undercut magazine, ainsi que l’auteur de Film Art Phenomena, a survey of experimental film and video (BFI, 2003). Il édite actuellement un livre d’essais sur le réalisateur autrichien Kurt Kren, qui sera publié au printemps 2016.

Exposition:
Brownian Motion –
une exposition des films 16 mm récents de Nicky Hamlyn
The Film Gallery, 43 Faubourg Saint-Martin, Paris
28 Septembre – Novembre 2015
Vernissage 25 Septembre 2015, 18-21h

Un événement proposé par Carmen Billows, curatrice d’exposition, en collaboration avec

L’Etna et The Film Gallery