788.34 Screening & Talk
Thursday, April 16, 7:30pm
Video program curated by Bryan Konefsky
Stephen Ausherman
Laura Bouza
Karen Hipscher
Shon Kim
Patricia McInroy
Peter Rand
788.34 is a video program presented throughout the exhibition in both cities, featuring moving image art from Albuquerque and Los Angeles as part of Basement Films’ annual, New Mexico based, Experiments in Cinema film festival.
Video curator Bryan Konefksy says, “According to MapQuest, 788.34 is the total mileage that separates Albuquerque from Los Angeles… I would like to think that the creative work in 788.34 embraces elements of an idea that film artist Stan Brakhage spent an entire career studying. For Brakhage, the poetry of cinema was lost in popular forms that he found to be too empirical and declarative… He believed the true meaning/voice of cinema exists somewhere between the frames, and maybe for us, somewhere around mile marker 394, in a safe place amongst the Joshua trees.”
Bryan Konefsky is a lecturer in the Department of Cinematic Arts at the University of New Mexico, Artistic Director of the Experiments in Cinema festival, Vice President of Basement Films and an Advisory Board member for the Ann Arbor Film Festival. basementfilms.org/experiments.html