Coleen Fitzgibbon: Internal Systems
@ Gene Siskel Film Center
162 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, October 14th, at 6PM
Between 1973 and 1975, Coleen Fitzgibbon, operating under the name “Colen Fitzgibbon,” produced a series of films that stand as some of cinema’s most rigorous explorations of the medium. Associated with the Structural film movement and New York’s No Wave scene, Fitzgibbon’s films emphasize time, duration, and their own flickering mechanics while also hinting at a deeper socio-cultural meaning. This evening, the SAIC alumna will present four of these films, including her 1974 standout, Internal System, whose recent restoration is attracting fresh acclaim. In the words of curator Andréa Picard, the film is “a vast, minimalist study of the monochromatic frame, a sort of sublime testing of film’s internal logic, its emulsive permutations and light sensitivities.” Also on the program: Fitzgibbon’s scratchy audio-visual collage Found Film Flashes (1974); the gorgeous FM/TRCS (1974) which uses the process of rephotography to transform the image of a woman dressing into abstract orbs of color and light; and the witty Restoring Appearances to Order (1974), featuring a short sequence of Fitzgibbon scrubbing a dirty sink to suggest the labor of art-making.
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