March 18, 2005
Blur+Sharpen Tuesday 3/22 @ 7:00PM
BLUR + SHARPEN presents TIME MACHINES
Tuesday, March 22, 7:00 PM
Ron Howard Screening Room
Robert Zemeckis Center for the Digital Arts
Blur + Sharpen returns this Tuesday night with a program devoted to experiments with time in a series of short films, music videos and commercials. Time has become an obsession for many filmmakers – why? In part, artists are responding to our culture’s accelerated pace and the ensuing emphasis on instantaneity and disposability. But they’re also visualizing a new temporal consciousness, with attempts to show the instant or frozen moment seen in bullet time effects, or the contradictory stasis and movement in the use of open flash, or the tension between forward and backwards time, extreme fast and slow motion, and spatio-temporal fragmentation.
The pieces collected for the “Time Machines” show express some of the transformations in the cultural conception of time. Works include the pinhole camera bullet time videos of Finnish artist Liisa Lounila, the Timetrack project of Chris Cunningham, and the temporal distortions of Michel Gondry and Spike Jonze. Also screening, Daniel Askill’s award-winning short We Have Decided Not to Die and Michiel van Bekel’s amazing 360 degree Muybridge update Equestrian.
www.iml.annenberg.edu/blursharpen
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