[spectre] September 28-30 - Films To Look At: A Tour Of Phill Niblock ¹ s Film Work @ Anthology NYC

Thu Sep 26 05:56:10 CEST 2013

ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org

32 SECOND AVENUE

NEW YORK, NY 10003

(212) 505-5181

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

FILMS TO LOOK AT: A TOUR OF PHILL NIBLOCK¹S FILM WORK
September 28-30, 2013

An 80th birthday tribute curated by Katherine Liberovskaya.

It is mindboggling that a man with the tireless energy and ceaseless touring
schedule of Phill Niblock is about to turn 80. An internationally recognized
artist with a wide body of music, film, photography, video, and computer
works, Niblock has specialized in making intermedia performance since the
mid-1960s. As a composer, he creates thick clouds of drones that are filled
with surprisingly active microtones and timbres that generate many other
tones in the performance space. During concerts of his music, Niblock
simultaneously presents films/videos focused on the movement of people
working, or computer-driven black-and-white abstract images floating through
time. While Niblock is best known today as a minimalist composer, he
actually started his artistic practice with film (and photography)  in
fact, his first compositions were created to accompany his films.

Born in Indiana in 1933, he has been an artist/member of the vital
Experimental Intermedia Foundation in New York since 1968, and its Director
since 1985. Over the years he has produced more than 1,000 performances at
the EI loft in Soho, acted as curator of the innovative XI Records label,
and launched a second EI space in Ghent, Belgium. Recordings of his music
are available on the XI, Moikai, Mode, and Touch labels, and DVDs containing
his films and music have been released on the Extreme and Die Schachtel
labels.

This program provides a glimpse into the broad range of Niblock¹s cinematic
explorations, from rarely-presented early works to a selection of films from
his well-known ³Movement of People Working² series, which he usually shows
at his concerts.

For more information on Niblock please visit:
www.phillniblock.com
www.experimentalintermedia.org

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*Sat, Sept 28 at 7:00.
PROGRAM 1: ENVIRONMENTS
The ŒEnvironments¹ were a series of non-verbal theater and museum
installations/performances that Niblock produced at the turn of the 1960s.
These were originally presented in various venues  Judson Church, NYC, the
Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at
Cornell University, and the Whitney Museum. Only the last three
ŒEnvironments¹ still exist in their complete versions. We will be screening
them as they were originally presented, as three 16mm film images projected
simultaneously side-by-side  the first time they¹ve been shown this way
since the 70s  and with early analog music by Niblock.
- CROSS COUNTRY/ENVIRONMENT II (1970, ca. 60 min, 16mm)
- 100 MILE RADIUS/ENVIRONMENT III (1971, ca. 60 min, 16mm)
- TEN HUNDRED INCH RADII/ENVIRONMENT IV (1971, ca. 60 min, 16mm)
Total running time: ca. 3 hours

* Sun, Sept 29 at 1:00.
PROGRAM 2: THE MOVEMENT OF PEOPLE WORKING, PART 1
The series of films ŒThe Movement of People Working¹ portrays human labor in
its most elementary form. Shot by Niblock between 1973-91, on 16mm color
film and later video, and in locations including Peru, Mexico, Hungary, Hong
Kong, the Arctic, Brazil, Lesotho, Portugal, Sumatra, China, and Japan, the
series comprises over 25 hours of footage (from which we¹ll be showing a
selection). It focuses on work as a choreography of movements and gestures,
dignifying the mechanical yet natural repetition of laborers¹ actions.
- PERU AND MEXICO
1973/74, 96 min, 16mm-to-digital video
- BAY JAMES
1976, 25 min, 16mm-to-digital video
- ARCTIC
1977, 25 min, 16mm-to-digital video
- BRASIL
1984, 90 min, 16mm-to-digital video
...Presented with music by Niblock from 1990 to 2013.
Total running time: ca. 245 min.

*Sun, Sept 29 at 6:00.
PROGRAM 3: THE MOVEMENT OF PEOPLE WORKING, PART 2
- CHINA
1987, 110 min, 16mm-to-digital video
- JAPAN
1989, 120 min, 16mm-to-digital video
...Presented with music by Niblock from 1990 to 2013.
Total running time: ca. 240 min.

*Mon, Sept 30 at 7:15.
PROGRAM 4: 70 FOR 70 (+ 1): SEVENTY (ONE) SIDES OF PHILL NIBLOCK
by Katherine Liberovskaya
2004, 103 min, digital video
- A dynamic portrait composed from fragments of seventy (+1) extremely
close-up interventions on video about Niblock by seventy (+1) people
connected to him in some way. These interventions, or monologues, were
collected in honor of his 70th year (2003-2004) and the piece premiered the
day of his 71st birthday, October 2, 2004, as an installation at Diapason
Gallery for Sound and Intermedia, NYC. Seventy people among his numerous
colleagues and friends were invited to say anything they wanted about
Niblock within the constraints of a very tight shot of their face. The
result is an intimate collage of meditations, reminiscences, anecdotes,
stories, impressions, feelingsŠfrom seventy-one different angles: seventy
(one) sides of Phill Niblock.
- With Chris Anderson, Thomas Ankersmit, Jeff Bauer, David Behrman, Tara
Bhattacharya, Maria Blondeel, Krystyna Borkowska, Jens Brand, Tom Buckner,
Yu-Fei Chen, Steve Dalachinsky, Irina Danilova, Guy De Bièvre, Michael
Delia, John Duncan, Jean Dupuy, Angie Eng, Dan Evans Farkas, Esther Ferrer,
David First, Bernhard Gal, Dave Geary, Madeleine Gekiere, Malcolm Goldstein,
Annie Gosfield, Matt Griffin, Shelley Hirsch, Andrea Hull, Tom Johnson, Seth
Josel, Tomi Keranen, Roger Kleier, Hans W. Koch, Yumi Kori, Mary Jane Leach,
Okkyung Lee, Katherine Liberovskaya, Alan Licht, Chris Mann, Frankie Mann,
Al Margolis, Eric Mattson, Charlie Morrow, Boris Nieslony, Morgan O¹Hara,
Yuko Otomo, Paul Panhuysen, Vitaly Patsyukov, Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta,
Jurgita Remeikyté, Don Ritter, Matt Rogalsky, Ursula Scherrer, Claudia
Schmacke, Michael Schumacher, Shelly Silver, Jim Staley, Gerd Stern, Volker
Straebel, Elaine Summers, Michael Timpson, Yasunao Tone, Jo Truman, Keiko
Uenishi, Ruben Verdadeiro, David Watson, Monika Weiss, Anne Wellmer, Amnon
Wolman, Dion Workman, Nina Zaretskaya.

*Mon, Sept 30 at 9:30.
PROGRAM 5: SIX FILMS FROM THE 60s
The six films are 16mm sound films, made in the late 1960s, transferred to
video.
- MORNING (1966-69, 17 min, 16mm-to-video, b&w)
With members of the Open Theater Group, including Lee Worley, James Barbosa,
Cynthia Harris, Sharon Gans, and Joseph Chaikin.
- THE MAGIC SUN (1966-68, 17 min, 16mm-to-video, b&w)
A high contrast black and white work featuring members of the Sun Ra
Arkestra; music by Sun Ra and the Arkestra.
- DOG TRACK (1969, 9 min, 16mm-to-video)
A film based on a found text. Read by Barbara Porte.
- ANNIE (1968, 8 min, 16mm-to-video)
A portrait of the dancer Ann Danoff, with a sound-collage score.
- MAX (1966-68, 7 min, 16mm-to-video, b&w)
An collage film portrait of Max Neuhaus, with a collage soundtrack by
Neuhaus. Edited by David Geary.
- RAOUL (1968-69, 20 min, 16mm-to-video)
A portrait of the painter Raoul Middleman, made with extensive use of
time-lapse film technique. The sound track is improvised by Middleman and
Niblock.
...Total running time: ca. 85 min.

*Phill Niblock and Katherine Liberovskaya will be present at all the
screenings.

For screeners, images, and further details, contact:
Ava Tews, Publicist, Anthology Film Archives 212.505.5181 ext. 20
ava at anthologyfilmarchives.org
About Anthology Film Archives:  Founded in 1969, Anthology's mission is to
preserve, exhibit, and promote public and scholarly understanding of
independent, classic, and avant-garde cinema. Anthology screens more than
1,000 film and video programs per year, publishes books and catalogs
annually, and has preserved more than 900 films to date.

Directions: Anthology is at 32 Second Ave. at 2nd St. Subway: F to 2nd Ave;
6 to Bleecker.
Tickets: $10 general; $8 for students, seniors, & children (12 & under); $6
AFA members; $8 Essential Cinema (free for members)
:  Founded in 1969, Anthology's mission is to preserve, exhibit, and promote
public and scholarly understanding of independent, classic, and avant-garde
cinema. Anthology screens more than 1,000 film and video programs per year,
publishes books and catalogs annually, and has preserved more than 900 films
to date.
: Anthology is at 32 Second Ave. at 2nd St. Subway: F to 2nd Ave; 6 to
Bleecker.
: $10 general; $8 for students, seniors, & children (12 & under); $6 AFA
members;
$8 Essential Cinema (free for members)

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