Opening the three-day transcultural event is “The Movement of People Working” (Peru & Mexico, 1973) a meditational video documentary by legendary New York-based filmmaker and composer Phill Niblock. Audiences in Shenzhen will have this rare opportunity to experience one of the major avant-garde experimenters living. The acclaimed success of this documentary lies in its minimalist rhythmic structure established in both visual and auditory terms. Performed in long durations, Niblock's music is an exploration of sound textures created by multiple tones in very dense, often atonal tunings generating complex psychoacoustic effects. “The Movement of People Working: Peru & Mexico” evokes a powerful sense of existential non-movement, and a close encounter with the hauntingly familiar hands of workers. more...
11 DECEMBER / SUNDAY / 6:00–8:00PM
MOVING IMAGES, MOVING CITIES Film & Video Works by Trans/disciplinary Artist
PROGRAMME
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Carsten Nicolai | Berlin | 2011 | 6m 30s
HD digital animation | color | sound
Interval II
Suki Chan | London | 2008 | 17m 30s
HD single-screen video | color | sound
Wide Rothko
João Vasco Paiva | Hong Kong | 2008 | 10m
single channel video | color | sound
Eight Minutes
Hiraki Sawa | London | 2005 | 8m 48s
single channel video | black & white | silent
A Shaved Mint
Claudio Sinatti | Milan | 2007 | 16m 13s
video composition | color | sound
Untitled (aina)
Andy Graydon | Berlin | 2008-9 | 26m 21s
super 8 film transferred to video | color | sound
Time Bubble
Katja Loher | New York | 2011 | 3m
single channel video | color | sound
Paganini Caprice No. 5
Cory Arcangel | New York | 2011 | 3m 41s
projection from a digital source | color | sound
Siafu
Jack Kubizne | New York | 2011 | 2m 05s
animation | color | sound
Back into the Ether
Cedric Maridet | Hong Kong | 2011 edit| 8m 58s
sound work with digital projection | color
Sabulation
Jacob Kirkegaard | Berlin | 2010 | 5m excerpt
sound & video work | black & white
Nivea
Lee Kit | Hong Kong | 2009 | 2m 2s
digital video | color | sound
Double Espresso
Lee Kit | Hong Kong | 2009 | 2m 06s
digital video | color | sound
Vaseline
Lee Kit | Hong Kong | 2009 | 1m 24s
digital video | color | sound