Josh Lewis and Simon Liu
@ The Nightingale Cinema
1084 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Thursday, September 29th, from 7PM - 9PM
The Nightingale welcomes Josh Lewis and Simon Liu as they interweave a selection of their 16mm films made by hand at Negativland MPL, an artist-run film lab in New York City, overlapping in their affinity for experimental processing and printing techniques. With Lewis working predominantly in direct chemical manipulation of exposed film surfaces, and Liu utilizing a roaming impressionistic camera paired with multiple passes on a contact printer, the program establishes the centrality of the Film Lab both as an epistemic concept and as a practical mode of production. Each film emerges out of a continual and rapid cycle of exposing, processing, projecting, repeat. As such, the films here are rarely the culmination of a process, but rather worthy points extracted from ongoing lines of investigation.
TRT: 90 min.
Program Details:
Pillager
2011 / 16mm / B&W / Optical Sound / 3:30 min. (Josh Lewis)
Chorus
2015 / 16mm / Color / Silent / 17 min. (Josh Lewis)
The Marshes
2016 / 16mm / Color / Sound / 11 min. (Simon Liu)
Doubt 3 & 4
2013 / 16mm / Color / Optical Sound / 6 min. (Josh Lewis)
Shuffle Cove
2016 / 16mm / Color / Sound / 8 min. (Simon Liu)
The Past is Past [but there is something now that I regret like I was about to do it]
2015 / 16mm Dual Projection / B&W / Silent / 6 min. (Josh Lewis)
Harbour City
2015 / 16mm Dual Projection / Color + B&W / Sound / 14 min. (Simon Liu)
I Guess It’s Always Been That Way, I Don’t Know Whether That’s Important Or Not.
2016 [Work In Progress] / 16mm Triple Projection / Color / Silent / 10 min. (Simon Liu)
Doubt 8 & 9
2013 / 16mm / Color / Silent / 6 min. (Josh Lewis)
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