Scott Stark: Alternating Frames
Night Out of Song, 2 projector performance
Tuesday, April 2, 2024, 7:30 pm
At 2220 Arts + Archives, 2220 W. Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles CA
Including in-person dual project performances by Scott Stark!
Tickets: $15 general, $8 student/senior, free for Filmforum members
At https://link.dice.fm/r491f8a8a1d6
Masks are highly recommended at Filmforum shows - N95 or KN95.
Filmforum welcomes back the wonderful filmmaker Scott Stark, whom we last hosted in 2013. Scott has a couple of fantastic expanded cinema dual-projector works getting their Los Angeles premieres. His ability to overlay images, cut rapidly between two different images, or find beautiful effects in two side-by-side images is unparalleled. The rotating paddle between two projectors creates a type of three-dimensionality that is unlike anything else and can only be experienced in person. We hope you can join us on this rare Tuesday night screening, the only available night when we could catch him on a brief visit to LA.
Warning: Strobe effects and rapidly alternating frames are a pretty consistent element of the program. If you are sensitive to them, this is a show to skip, alas.
Scott Stark has made over 85 films and videos, as well as numerous moving image installations, live performances and photo-collages. His work has shown nationally and internationally in venues as diverse as New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Cinematheque, the Film Festival Rotterdam, the Tokyo Image Forum, and many others. His 16mm film Angel Beach was invited into the 2002 Whitney Biennial, and in 2007 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. His 2013 film The Realist showed at numerous worldwide film festivals and was on several year-end “best” lists. His work has garnered numerous awards. He lives in San Francisco, California.
Night Out of Song
Night Out of Song
2022, 2 projector performance, color, sound, approx. 18:00
A double 16mm projector performance, with a rotating shutter in front of the projectors providing alterations between the two images.
Abstractions are lifted from the urban palette and deposited atop shapes both organic and inorganic, in an ebb and flow of movement through the city. A kind of breathing.
Tenpin Arpeggio
Tenpin Arpeggio
2012, digital video, color/sound, Cinemascope, 10 mins.
Los Angeles premiere!
Movements of bowlers in an American bowling alley form an arpeggio of sound and image against backgrounds of abstraction and calls for civic engagement. The hypnotic cutting threatens to break apart the frame, as if the bowlers were attempting to free themselves from the restraints of their physical environment.
Music in the Air
Music in the Air
2023, 2-projector performance, color, sound, approx. 16:30
Los Angeles premiere!
In a live double-16mm projector performance, Scott Stark feeds gorgeous Kodachrome found footage, from a 1950s promo doc about a fabled teen music camp near Stockton, CA, into his propeller-driven system to generate a transformative visual spectacle. Using two reels of film, the on-screen image alternates between the left and right projectors, transposing objects onto bodies, landscapes onto buildings, sidewalks onto swimming pools, and subtle musical movements onto frenetic explosions of color.