Events
Oct 14 - Oct 18: GNY Cinema, Screening with Redmond Entwistle
Saturday, October 16, 2010
3:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Redmond Entwistle
Paterson-Lodz, 2006 (16mm, 60 mins)
Performed at 3pm on
Saturday, October 16 and Sunday, October 17.
Impressions of the ground
from Paterson, New Jersey and Lodz in Poland cast into glass and then filmed
against the sky as the light changes through their intricately detailed
surface. Fragments of voice-overs recounting the history of the two towns at
the start of the twentieth century, in particular two events: the 1905
revolution in Lodz and the 1913 Paterson Silk Strike. Soundscapes of the two
towns that playback so that their streets seem to cut through the auditorium.
These excavated pieces of our world are set alongside each other. They each
speak in their own way, and through the friction that builds up around their
edges; history, space and representation are invested with a quality both
concrete and plastic.
Each time the film is
projected a computer selects new fragments of the histories and new sounds of
the cities to play over the image. This is a history that goes backwards and
forwards in time, that changes according to new sets of connections in the
sound, in which beginning and end are unclear. Paterson-Lodz is a
reflection on the possibilities and failure of two social movements that opened
the twentieth century, and of a present moment still searching for a way to
enter history. - RE
