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Since 2001, New York-based artists Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder have collaborated on a series of performances and installations that transform the mundane mechanics of film projection into sublime experiences of light and space. The duo uses a system of film loops, crystals, and hand gestures to bend, reflect, and refract the projector's beam, recasting the theatrical space of the cinema into a unique medium for sculpting light. In their first-ever Chicago appearance together, Gibson and Recoder present their latest projector performance, developed with noted Chicago-based composer and sound artist, Olivia Block.
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A minimalist monochromatic film frame is projected through a glass pane fogged via a humidification system. The planular drift of the projected frame alters its course, bending here, diffracting there – keystoning its way through the darkness of a cinematic abyss.
Thanks
"Sandy Ding's WATER SPELL is a bold, abstract journey that takes us into the psychic interior of our very cellular structure... and back. For me, this film is about reincarnation and transformation, on both the spiritual and sub-atomic levels. This is not an easy film, but it is a powerful one."
--Nina Menkes
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In the 5-minute silent film Outline (2003) unfolds in a burst of color luxuriating in the width of 35mm CinemaScope, a succession of different shapes and textures cascades across the full expanse of the projection screen.
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A brand-new and at the same time traditional avant-garde film that translates a collage-like partition of sounds, voices and music into a caleidoscopische film experience with great skill and sensitivity. Alternating between abstraction and very concrete imagery, this film offers an adventure as much for the ear as for the eye. (Rotterdam FF 2002)
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Patterns of rhythm and colour in the unseen corners of fragments of film.
