Mar 30th 2013

Jason Livingston: The Rebuilt Environment

@ The Nightingale

1084 N. Milwaukee, Chicago, Illinois 60642

Opening Saturday, March 30th, at 8PM

The Nightingale is delighted to present
THE REBUILT ENVIRONMENT:
Film & Video Work by Jason Livingston
Saturday, March 30 at 8:00pm, $7-10

PART ONE: WORK IN PROGRESS
COPY AND PAST (with Dora Malech, 6’, 2013)
Found images and found text from online matchmaking sites.

PART TWO: OLD SAWS
THE TWO BOYS: (video, 9’, 1999)
Memories upended on shore leave. Lost footage goes home.

THE END (video, 3.25’, 1998)
‘Nuff said.

ACID REIGN (video, 4.5’, 2010)
On the post-apocalyptic promise of animal re-population.

LAKE AFFECT (video, 1.25’, 2007)
Produced during a residency at the Experimental Television Center.

JULY FIX (16mm transferred to video, 1.75’, 2006)
Blood and flowers on a summer day.

PART THREE: THE WORLD ISN’T FIXED
(SURPRISE!)

UNDER FOOT & OVERSTORY (16mm transferred to video, 35’, 2005)
A thesis on the rebuilt environment and the home of language.

Biography
Jason Livingston is a film and video maker from Upstate New York. His work has been programmed at many festivals and venues, including the Rotterdam International Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives, the Austrian Film Museum, the Margaret Mead Film Festival, Ann Arbor and more. Under Foot & Overstory, winner of a Jury Prize from the New York Underground Film Festival, can be rented from the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre. The Two Boys earned a Special Director’s Prize for Poet of the Cinema at the late, great Cinematexas. Some of his recent video work can be seen as part of ETC: Experimental Television Center 1969-2009, a 5-DVD Anthology distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix. He is a recipient of a New York State Council of the Arts Individual Artist Grant for his work-in-progress, INTERSTATE, a long-form video essay about video collectives, the Socialist Workers Party, the Onondaga Nation, family history, political economy and disco. In addition to making moving images, he has worked in film exhibition, most notably with THAW in the late 1990s and with Cornell Cinema from 2002 – 2004. He occasionally writes about cinema for such publications as The Brooklyn Rail.

http://jasontlivingston.com/

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