Eiga Arts October 2nd

Joss Winn josswinn
Tue Sep 7 11:50:54 EDT 1999



EIGA ARTS
Presents



Films by

Peter Hutton
Leighton-Pierce
Jon Jost



....While every cinema has closed down in the city below, on the top of a
mountain, in a village overlooking the Nagasaki islands, a $12m, 600 seat
theatre has recently been built for the local community.  It's an odd place.
Monumental, utterly extravagant, entirely economically unjustified...

                            ...and it's been offered to Eiga Arts for free!!

For a taste of the 'high life', for 'one time only!'  Eiga Arts goes to
'HARMONY'.





Peter Hutton

Images of Asian Music (A Diary from Life 1973-74)
16mm, 29 minutes, 1974



"IMAGES OF ASIAN MUSIC represents footage compiled during 1973-74 when Peter
Hutton was living in Thailand and working at sea as a merchant seaman. While
the film is silent, the title was intended to evoke a comparison to the
movement of classical Asian music. IMAGES OF ASIAN MUSIC is a personal
celebration of Asia formed by a sensitivity to filmic composition and to the
perception of these images in a silent time created by the filmmaker."
--Whitney Museum of American Art
"...The camera records a ship working out of Thailand, the faces of the
seamen, the sea, a storm, fireworks, a big snake coiling exploratorily about
a young girl, the huge Buddha in the lotus position and landscapes and
skyscapes reminiscent of the film work of Satyajit Ray. It is beautiful,
mute, and meaningful in the silence." --Archer Winston, New York Post




Lodz Symphony
16mm, 20 minutes, 1991-3



A portrait of Lodz, Poland that exists in a timewarp of sad memory.  Hutton
creates an empty world evoking the 19th century industrial atmosphere that
is populated with the ghosts of Poland's tragic past.



*

Leighton Pierce

Glass
16mm, 7 minutes, 1998



A not-so-still-life in the back yard with children, water, fire, and a few
other basic elements. ?This is another contemplative painterly piece in
Leighton Pierce's on going "Memories of Water" series. While the ultimate
effect is intended to be poetic (and maybe even transformative), it is
simultaneously a study in the laws of optics--an exploration of refraction,
diffraction, diffusion, reflection, and absorption. --Leighton Pierce

A window pane is a paradox of sorts, as it unifies two opposing functions.
On the one hand it separates the 'inside' from the 'outside while the two
spaces still remain visually connected. Glass, like water, can also flow,
and both substances also share the qualities of transparency, refraction,
and reflection. It is in this last quality that 'inside' and 'outside' can
merge into one image. The accompanying crystal clear soundtrack, which
ranges from a groaning swing to a crackling fire, very effectively contrasts
the diffuse qualities of "Glass." --Arjon Dunnewind IMPAKT Festival Catalog
1998 (Utrecht, The Netherlands).

Awards: Best Cinematography--Ann Arbor and tour, Juror's Choice (top
award)--Black Maria, Cash Award-- Athens

Selected Festival Screenings: New York Film Festival, European Media Arts
Fest and tour (Germany), Impakt and tour (Netherlands), Ann Arbor (tour),
Athens, Black Maria, etc.


Red Shovel
16mm, 8 minutes, 1992

A narrow angle of view, closely watched, on the Fourth of July.

Red Shovel is an impressionistic documentary focussing on a few moments in a
small town along the coast of Maine on the Fourth of July (American
Independence day). The approach to image is very painterly with the simple
view transformed "with Turneresque luminosity." Most of the unusual visual
effect is from the careful use of a shallow depth of field and natural
objects (blowing grass, bushes, etc.)to bend and twist the images into a
languid sense of time. In the end the film documents a state of mind more
than a particular spot. It also resonates with the ambiguous metaphoric
threat of a national symbol impinging upon the child's toy.


Festivals and Awards: Marin County 1994 First Place IMPAKT Festival
(Netherlands) 1993 Osnabruk Media Arts Festival 1993 AVE Festival
(Netherlands) 1993 MediaWave, Gyor, Hungary Ann Arbor Film Festival Cash
Award Humboldt Film Festival Black Maria 1993 Juror's Award Sinking Creek
1993 Kodak Cinematography Award Bucks County 1992 Cash Award

Screenings also at the American Museum of the Moving Image, The National
Gallery of Art, Flaherty Film Seminars, etc.



*

Jon Jost

Canyon
16mm, 5 minutes, 1970



A single view of the Grand Canyon, seen over one day. I had been to the
Canyon, hiked to the bottom, shot material which was useless, and returned
several years later knowing I had nothing to say about the Grand Canyon, but
that it should speak for itself.


All films were obtained with the assistance of Jon Jost.

Saturday October 2nd.  Afternoon screening at 3.30pm.  Donations
appreciated. For details on how to get to the mountain top, contact:  Joss
Winn
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