Events
Sept 11: GNY Cinema, Performance by Andrew Lampert
Saturday, September 11, 2010
4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
September 4 and 11
Andrew Lampert
Films and Performances
Saturday, September 4 at 3pm and Saturday, September 11 at 4:15pm.
Despite—or
perhaps because of—his training as an archivist, Andrew Lampert’s films
and
performances undermine any expected reverence for the preservation and
exhibition of media
artifacts. “The projector and the screen and the projectionist and the
audience are together far more integral to cinema than any film running
through a projector in a booth behind the
audience,” Lampert has written, in a short statement on his practice.
“Celluloid is not cinema, not even close.” For Lampert, cinema is what
happens right now, and he loves to tangle the lines between the
documented and the live, creating sets of rules for each work that allow
for improvisation and chance operations. As part of Greater New York
Cinema, Lampert will present two afternoon events. For “Contracted
Cinema” on September 4, Lampert will perform Jacka Spades (2009), his
audio-visual record of a day of Super 8 filming in New York, presented
back in real time, and the similarly peripatetic Am I from Brooklyn?
(2010). On September 11th, “The Old World and This One, Too” will
include Lampert’s take on the dance film and portrait genres, as well as
the premiere of a Super 8 double-projection with artist Fern Silva, who
will perform with Lampert as the duo Double Trouble. In keeping with
Lampert’s events at Anthology Film Archives and elsewhere, both shows
will include impromptu readings, odd bits of ephemera, and door prizes
to lucky audience members!
