White Light Cinema at The Nightingale - Friday, Dec 18th, 8pm
Without question the most ambitious
undertaking of his ongoing career, Klahr's 12 film series has never
before screened in its entirety in Chicago. Trafficking in the noir
that has is now the familiar backward looking lens at the Eisenhower-Kennedy
era, Klahr has a genuine affection for the collection of visual elements
that populate his fragmented narratives. Produced over four years, from
1988-1991, these films whisper the claustrophobic outcomes of a childhood
shaped by shopping malls and two car garages, and shout the angst of
Nicholas Ray's best characters. More than this they are about the unfulfilled
dreams of an exuberant nation, fueled by cheap gasoline and atomic energy,
ready to change the world through technology and righteousness. Through
the domesticity of the Super-8mm medium Klahr's cutout animation is
made personal through delicate juxtaposition and detail, and his careful
camerawork leads us through the often-convoluted logic of his symbols.
Incorporating both original and found music, short clips of dialog and
authentic ambient noise, he is able to immerse the viewer in a mood-colored
world of simultaneous possibility and failure. Rarely is the intellectual
exercise of evaluating one's society so effortless. (1988-1991, 131
mins total, Super-8mm on video) JH - Cine-File.info
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