Edwin Carels: Moving Autographs
70 minutes
In 2011, the MuHKA (Antwerp) presented a four-part series of thematic exhibitions examining the technique of drawing and its automation, both in the technical and the conceptual sense. In May 2012, The Drawing Room in London will present a new version of the exhibition. Curator Edwin Carels explains some of the ideas behind this project.
This program screened as part of HAFF 2012
Showing in this program
Humorous Phases of Funny Faces
La Pluie
Newsprint
A newspaper glued onto clear film is projected as audio-visual typography. A film made without a camera.
For NEWSPRINT I glued a newspaper onto clear 16mm film then punched out the sprocket holes to enable the film to run through the projector. Using a strong light I printed 'newspaper-film' to copy it onto another strip of film. This shows up the letters and words clearly, which can also be heard as they pass over the sound-head in the projector.
Particles in Space
Pharmacy
PHARMACY is based on Stefan and Francizsk Themersons influential 1930 abstract photogram film APTEKA. The Themerson’s are considered the most influential filmmakers of the Polish avant-garde of pre-WWII Europe.
A stunning black and white abstract film, Pharmacy is a chaotic, anarchicassemblage of chemistry lab measuring cups and spoons, various size test tubes,tweezers, eyeglasses, and a cornucopia of transparent pharmaceutical equipment seen asshadows only.
Filmed in Budapest using a 1930s single frame camera, black and white film, and a reconstruction of the Themerson’s trick table based on an original drawing made byStefan Themerson in the 1970’s.
Directed by BRUCE CHECEFSKY
Quiero Ver
QUIERO VER
On the 13th of each month, hundreds of people gather at a site in the Mojave Desert to see visions of the Virgin Mary appear in the sun. They point Polaroid, cell phone, and video cameras at the sun, and compare interpretations of the resulting images. This film documents the creative energy of this populist spiritual event. (6 minutes, Digibeta, 2008)
Shu (Blue Hour Lullaby)
Sine Reco(r)ded
Six Weeks in June
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Space Modulation
A black plane with a large number of tiny dots gradually changes from flat to spatial to capture an image which is neither flat nor spatial. Preserved in 2008.
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Still Life with Small Cup
A radical reworking of an etching by the Italian artist Giorgio Morandi, brought to life by engraving frame by frame directly into the photographic emulsion of colour filmstock. The viewer is taken on a journey through the etching, accompanied by the sounds that the artist might have heard from his window as he worked.
Symphonie Diagonale
A tilted figure, consisting largely of right angles at the beginning, grows by accretion, with the addition of short straight lines and curves which sprout from the existing design. The figure vanishes and the process begins again with a new pattern, each cycle lasting one or two seconds. The complete figures are drawn in a vaguely Art Deco style and could be said to resemble any number of things, an ear, a harp, panpipes, a grand piano with trombones, and so on, only highly stylized. The tone is playful and hypnotic. Written by David Carless
The Death of Natural Language
The Death of Natural Language is an ascii animation of a plane crashing. The abstracted image mediated by ascii text parallels modern human communication: meaning is often lost or misinterpreted by the process.
Two
a visual dialog based on timing, gesture, mark-making, and sound
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