Antimatter 2022
Media Installations
October 20 to 30, 2022
My Stars
@ Deluge (transom window)
John Behrens | 2021 | USA | 2 min
In My Stars, one of his last works before his untimely death, Behrens applies his signature hand painting and deft manipulation of 35mm found footage to create a glorious process of becoming. Light arises from darkness. Images splinter, then double and coalesce to burst into a multiplicity of luminescence: an ascension from time and space.
Jon Behrens was a Seattle based filmmaker/composer. His films have been screened at film festivals, colleges and museums throughout the world since the early 1980s including at Antimatter, Seattle International, TIE Colorado, London Underground, Crossroads San Francisco, Festival International des Cinemas Differents et Experimentaux in Paris, Alternative Film and Video Festival in Novi Beograd Serbia, Sydney Underground, Festival des Cinémas Différents de Paris and many others. His work ranges from personal and diaristic to abstract hand-painted optically-printed works. In addition to filmmaking Jon Behrens was also a composer: he began creating sound design for most of his own films over a decade ago, as well as non film related compositions.
Red House
@ Deluge (entrance foyer)
Barry Doupé | 2022 | Canada | 3 min
Red House is an animation that playfully explores metamorphosis in relation to the stability and structure of housing. Created using the Amiga computer console and Deluxe Paint IV software, hand drawn sequences delight in the constant reconfiguration of images, characters and forms.
Barry Doupé is a Vancouver-based artist primarily working with computer animation. His films use imagery and language derived from the subconscious, developed through writing exercises and automatic drawing. His films have been screened throughout Canada and internationally including the Ann Arbor Film Festival (Michigan), International Film Festival Rotterdam (Netherlands), Anthology Film Archives (New York), Lyon Contemporary Art Museum (France), Pleasure Dome (Toronto), MOCCA (Toronto), Whitechapel Gallery (London), Centre Pompidou (Paris), the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Tate Modern (London).
Hotel
@ Legacy Art Gallery
David Curtis | 2022 | Canada | 5 min
A cinematic portrait of the interior and interiority of The James Bay Inn by its sole occupant during a pandemic.
During a two week stay in a nearly vacant hotel I developed an intimate relationship to my room and the hotel’s architecture and décor. With no other tenants to be seen I was free to wander and absorb the strange ambiance of its spaces, while searching for signs of life, both past and present.
David Curtis is an off grid dwelling filmmaker/ cinematographer, artist, commercial fisher and carpenter living within the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Traditional Territories outside of Dawson City, Yukon, Canada. In all aspects of his life David nurtures a close relationship to nature, kairos, poetry and laughter.
Hello Earth
@ Ministry of Casual Living Window Gallery
Vjosana Shkurti | 2021 | Canada | 5 min
Hello Earth is a three-way conversation between the artist, a candle and a lightbulb on a dimmer, in a personal attempt to go back in time through interactions of light. At times, electrical light weighs upon our eyes with its tyrannical demand for attention. But when the power is out, we experience a freedom that lets us return to simpler and gentler ways of illumination. This return, though nurturing and devoid of excess, is only temporary. We are eventually forced to accept the irreversibility of technological complexity we have created.
Vjosana Shkurti is a filmmaker based in Montreal. Born in Albania and raised in Greece, her artistic work explores aspects of origin, memory and relationships with technology. She has a background in architectural design, which informs her approach towards perspective, framing and scale. She has created experimental films that merge abstraction with reality, fiction with documentary, human bodies with technological counterparts. Her focus has been the camera and its performative potential as an active participant/character in cinema. She actively engages with the sound design of her pieces to alter the experience of what is seen.