Image: A still from AgX member Natalie Minik’s short film PALMETTO.
During Waltham Mills Open Studios weekend November 7-8, 2020, join AgX for a free virtual screening of recent films from its members, curated by AgX members Ernesto Livon-Grosman and Susan DeLeo.
The film progam will be live streamed on Sunday, November 8 at 3pm on the Open Studios website, on Facebook Live to be posted here, and on the AgX Youtube page (highest quality stream). The films will be followed by a virtual Q&A with AgX filmmakers in this program. You can share any questions during the Q&A through the Facebook Live link above.
This program is free and open to all! If you are able, please consider making a suggested $5 donation in support of the group’s continuing work here: donate.agxfilm.org
Learn more and follow the full Open Studios line-up on the Waltham Open Studios website and Open Studios Facebook event.
Total film program length: 45 minutes + 15 minute Q&A
Film Program:
1) Portrait (2018) Douglas Urbank 5' 15’’ 16mm to digital
An imagined portrait, handmade, improvised, stream of consciousness.
Un retrato imaginado, hecho a mano, improvisado, fluir de la conciencia.
https://vimeo.com/douglasurbank
2) Ramona (2016) Susan DeLeo 3’ 53’’ super 8mm to digital
Ramona is an homage to the filmmaker's late mother, a journey through 8mm home movies obsessively watched as a child and now reimagined. It is a calling on the light of memory and love.
Ramona es un homenaje a la madre de la directora, un viaje a través de películas hogareñas de super 8 visualizadas obsesivamente cuando era niña y ahora reimaginadas. Es una invitación a la luz de la memoria y el amor.
https://vimeo.com/user10643376
3) Astrology (2017) Brittany Gravely 3’ 16mm to digital
An ancient artifact, an alchemical algorithm, astrological archaeology.
Un artefacto antiguo, un algoritmo alquímico, una arqueología astrologica.
https://vimeo.com/magicalapproach
4) Sense(s) of Time (2018) Wenhua Shi 5’ 24’’ 16mm to digital
Sense(s) of Time depicts the lyrical and poetic passage of time. The work reflects on time, and focuses on defining subjective and perceptual time with close attention to stillness, decay, disappearance, and ruins.
Lo(s) sentido(s) del tiempo representa el lirismo y la poesía del paso del tiempo. La película reflexiona sobre el tiempo y se concentra en definirlo en su dimensión subjectiva. En cómo es percibido con especial atención a la quietud, la decadencia, la desaparición y las ruinas.
5) Le Trésor (2016) Stefan Grabowski 1’ 46’’ 16mm to digital
Walking through Saint-Aquilin-de-Corbion, July 2016. A light rain fell steadily, slowly saturating my clothes and leaving me with a lingering chill, followed by a violent fever and a sleepless night. The treasure I found there was dingy and tarnished, but precious still.
Caminando a través de Saint-Aquilin-de-Corbion, julio del 2016. Caía una llovizna constante que poco a poco fue empapando mis ropas y me dejó con una persistente sensación de frío a la que le siguió fiebre y una noche en vela. El tesoro que encontré allí fue sombrío y opaco y aun así precioso.
6) Transit (2018) Ethan Berry 3’ 17’’ super 8mm to digital
A journey through space and time from New York city to Providence, Rhode Island. A pilgrimage of sorts, visiting two former students and thinking about the intervening years.
Un viaje a través del tiempo y el espacio desde la ciudad de Nueva York hacia Providence, Rhode Island. Una suerte de peregrinaje para visitar dos antiguos estudiantes y pensar en los años que pasaron.
7) Personal Cuts / Hands (2018) Nicole Prutsch 2’ 18’’ super 8mm to digital, Performed by J.E.
In Personal Cuts / Hands a scientist's hands in latex gloves confront the camera. Using scissors, one hand cuts one hole after another into the glove of the other hand, thereby fully destroying the glove and releasing the naked hand.
En Cortes Personales / Manos Las manos de un científico en guantes de látex se enfrentan a la cámara. La tijera en una mano va cortando uno tras otro agujeros en el otro guante, destruyéndolo y a la vez exponiendo la mano desnuda.
https://vimeo.com/user11992131
8) Winter Island (2016) Peach S Goodrich 3’ 12’’ 16mm to digital
Shot & hand processed in Salem and Beverly, Massachusetts, on November 20, 2016 Using only in-camera editing, fades, cross fades, multiple exposures, and backwinding, this film was shot on Winter Island on 100 feet of B&W 16mm film.
Filmado y revelado manualmente en Salem y Beverly, Massachusetts, el 20 de noviembre del 2016. Utilizando únicamente técnicas de edición en cámara, transiciones, exposiciones múltiples y rebobinado, el film fue filmado en Winter Island en 16mm usando 30 metros de película en blanco y negro.
9) Orange Band (2017) Sarah Bliss. 4’ 44’’ Digital
A contemporary landscape that explores the post-human and post-industrial, searching out new ways to engage the body on the land. By engaging the camera apparatus as a literal extension of my body, I bridge interior and exterior worlds, blurring the edge of what is "me" and what is "outside me.”
Psychogeography made palpable.
Un paisaje contemporáneo que explora lo post-humano y lo post-industrial buscando nuevas maneras de conectar el cuerpo y la tierra. Usando la cámara literalmente como una extensión de mi cuerpo, conecto mundos interiores y exteriores, borroneando los límites de lo que “soy” y de lo que se encuentra “afuera mío”.
Una psicogeografía hecha palpable.
10) Palmetto (2018) Natalie Minik 7’ 50’’ Digital
A Southerner herself, Natalie Minik is interested in how the region still visually nods to a painful and shameful past, often by commodifying and celebrating it. Using Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, as her subject, she created a work that considers how we cover up and glorify our scars at once, tracing the distortion of the region’s landscape and history to a place where painful recognition of reality and uncanny alienation from reality coexist in the same space.
Nacida en el sur de los Estados Unidos, a Natalie Minik le interesa mostrar cómo su región conserva referencias visuales a un pasado doloroso y vergonzoso que con frecuencia objetivizan y celebran su historia. Tomando como tema Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, ella ha creado una película que reflexiona cómo en un mismo gesto ocultamos y glorificamos nuestras heridas, rastreando la distorsión del paisaje y la historia hacia un lugar donde el doloroso reconocimiento de la realidad y de la extraña alienación de la misma ocurren simultáneamente.
11) From Wolff on Composition (2018) Ernesto Livon-Grosman. 4’ 20’’ Digital (Work in progress)
From a documentary dedicated to Christian Wolff's music. This video plays with some of the landscapes and music that are already part of this documentary project.
In Memoriam Robert Todd (1963 – 2018)
De un documental dedicado a la música de Christian Wolff. Este video pone en juego algunos de los paisajes y la música que forman parte de este proyecto documental.
In Memoriam Robert Todd (1963 – 2018)
BONUS MATERIAL! AgX Open Studios 2020 Playlist:
Throughout Open Studios weekend, AgX has also put together a free online mini-playlist of additional AgX recent works from 2015-2020, featuring films from Kathryn Ramey, Paul Turano, Pete Pappavaselio, Anulfo Baez, and Genevieve Carmel.
About AgX:
AgX is an artist-run film lab and collective for moving image artists in the Boston area. The group shares resources, equipment, camaraderie and knowledge with a focus on the creation and appreciation of photochemical films. Since 2015, its members have shared a darkroom, lab, workspace, and screening area as part of the Waltham Mills artist community and as a part of the international artist-run film labs movement.
As an all-volunteer non-profit film collective with an open membership, AgX is a form of creative mutual aid for all of its members, and hosts public workshops and screenings throughout the year, to inspire and educate those in the Greater Boston area about the art of photochemical filmmaking. In 2017, AgX was recognized with a Special Commendation from the Boston Society of Film Critics “for creating a space dedicated to fostering skill-building and interest in photochemical-based moving images through workshops, events and collaborative experimentation”. AgX has also been the recipient of grants from the Waltham Cultural Council, the Somerville Arts Council, and the Mayor’s Office of Arts & Culture for the City of Boston.
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This program and all other AgX virtual programming during Fall 2020 has been generously supported in part by the City of Boston’s Arts & Culture COVID-19 Fund.
Additional support for upcoming fall workshop programming has been provided by the Waltham Cultural Council.