Join us for the launch of 44: Experimental Media on January 16th in Toronto at the Gladstone Hotel, from 6-9pm to pick up a copy of our new issue, and meet the editor and contributors. The event is taking placing at Early Monthly Segments #35 and will feature rare screening of J.J. Murphy’s Print Generation. Hope to see you there!
PUBLIC 44 Experimental Media launch
Monday 16 January 2012, 6-9 PM
Gladstone Hotel Ballroom
1214 Queen Street West
at Early Monthly Segments #35 (screening @ 6:30 PM)
Print Generation by J.J. Murphy
(1974, 16mm, 50 minutes)
Archival print courtesy the Academy Film Archive.
Special thanks to Mark Toscano, May Haduong and Canyon Cinema.
“Once the images are brought up to full colour, Print Generation heads back toward abstraction. The viewer, having built a picture from an abstract pattern of dots, now must literally choose what is seen, whether to hold memory’s trace of the representation or swim into the dancing crystalline waters of emulsion.” -Anthony Bannon, Buffalo Evening News
Print Generation by J.J. Murphy is a rarely screened structural gem that harnesses image and sound deterioration to its fullest. Murphy started with sixty one second shots, a one minute film. He then made fifty contact printed copies from each successive version, consciously degrading the film one “generation” at a time. Print Generation is structured so we begin watching obscured images and work toward the original and back again….while the soundtrack of lapping ocean waves does the opposite. The film elegantly addresses the intricacies of memory and time: how we remember, what we remember and how a fleeting ‘home movie’ reveals and recedes. Spoiler alert? Well, not exactly, as with all films, structural and otherwise, the magic of the experience is also in the sharing…so we hope you will join us for this special screening alongside the launch of 44: Experimental Media.
Early Monthly Segments is a monthly film series named after an early film by Robert Beavers, and is inspired by the immediacy, vibrancy and experimentation found in that film. Programmed by Scott Berry, Chris Kennedy, and Kate MacKay this series features historical and contemporary avant-garde 16mm films in a salon-like setting at the Gladstone Art Bar in Toronto. In this relaxed context with refreshing beverages and food available, we hope to encourage a convivial atmosphere for engaged viewing and post-screening dialogue. We do not receive public funding for our programs and pay artists from admissions. For more information and screening archive please visit:
www.earlymonthlysegments.org
