The Nightingale - Friday, 10pm
Boston based filmmaker Robert
Todd is one of the most prolific and precise celluloid artists working
today. Many of his films begin as documents and, through careful
manipulation of lens, light, and editorial timing, transcend their
subject matter to become existential metaphors. Two such black and white
films, ROSE (2008, 9 min, 16mm) and QUIVER (2008, 10 min, 16mm),
utilize film grain to translate the physical texture of objects to the
eyes. The camera's eye is more akin to a finger as extreme close-ups
combine with rack-focus, gently brushing the surface to reveal the
internal. Similar in approach is QUALITIES OF STONE (2006, 11 min,
16mm), a color film that combines imagery of the organic and inorganic
to contemplate life and death, artificial and natural. Tactile poetry
for the eyes. Also screening are FLOWERGIRLS (2004, 14 min, 16mm), HAPPY
PEPPY SPARKY DOG (2002, 3 min, 16mm), BLISS (2006, 5 min, 16mm), and
others TBA. JH - Cine-File.info
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