f i l m fo r u m
los angeles

fall 2005 screenings
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The Egyptian Theater
6712 Hollywood Blvd.

An Evening With Patrick Halm

Patrick Halm has been making films in Los Angeles for 15 years.  Influenced by poetry and symphonic music his non-narrative work is composed of image and idea fragments that reveal an invisible path concealed within memory, moment, and motion.  His work draws on a wide variety of recurrent themes such as outmoded history, subtleties of symbol, technology, the natural world, and the human desire to create.  

Halm received a B.F.A. from the Rhode Island School Of Design.  His work has screened in galleries and festivals in London, Berlin, Hamburg, Vancouver, and throughout the U.S.  He had his first one person show in 1999 at The Blinding Light Gallery Theater in Vancouver, BC. Canada.  Selected film works are distributed through Canyon Cinema in San Francisco.

“Above all, my films are intended to create a space where viewers can exercise their imaginations; to dislodge, unlearn, find freedom and ultimately gain access to the creative self.” – Patrick Halm

Tonight we'll be screening an array of Halm's recent work, and talk with
Halm about his films.

AUTOGENIC THRESHOLD (2000, 16mm, 10min, color, sound)
Part 1 of the Creation Myth Series. Self made barriers and portals. The
buildup and release of the physical, emotional, and mythic. The physical
calm of emotional release.

SUBMERSED BUT FOR THE SAKE OF THE SEA (2000, 16mm, 8min, color, sound)
Part 2 of the Creation Myth Series. Visual gravitation. Mental levitation.
The order the mind gives to the eye.

PULSE (2000, 16mm, 6min, color, sound)
Part 3 of the Creation Myth Series. How to explain television to a dead
hare.

IN THE LAND OF GIANTS (1997, 16mm, 20min, color, sound)
Images of small finches, people in the rain, struggling body movement and
proud owners of precious objects compose this film. A cinematic dissection
by grouping and then a grouping by dissection.

THE GIANT AT THE OTHER SIDE (2005, DV, 2min, stereo sound)
Inspired by the poetry of Emily Dickinson.

UNTITLED Part 1 - KEEPING (2004, DV, 18min, stereo sound)
The keeping of seeing. The formed held image that resonates deep within,
selected from a constant flow from the eye. The creative eye within the
eye.

UNTITLED Part 2 - BLUE RIBBON NEBULA (2005, DV, 5min, stereo sound)
The value that is given to what the mind selects from the eye.

69 minutes total