Events
Oct 14 - Oct 18: GNY Cinema, Screening with Redmond Entwistle
Sunday, October 17, 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
