LIVE SUPER 8 PERFORMANCE
Featuring Jorge Lozano & Alexandra Gelis
Thursday, September 29th - 8:00 pm
Spadina Theatre (24 Spadina Road) ♿
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Regular screenings are restricted to those 18 years of age or older according to the Ontario Theatres Act.
Jorge Lozano culls together a broad range of works which constitute the breadth of Jorge’s artistic vision: be it an implicit exploration of the politics of the day, a poetic rumination of time and space, or the consummation of a two-screen projection of a hyper montage from his archive. Cine Blanc narrates a tale of insurgents in our midst speaking to the politics of the 1980s such as the Red Brigade, the Guerilla Groups, etc., will finally see the big screen since its inception four decades ago. This programme surveys the breadth of Jorge’s vision and leaves us with some food for thought.
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Jorge Lozano Lorza is an immigrant artist and filmmaker born in Colombia. He has been painting and filming, and making videos, sound, performance and installation works since he came to Canada in 1971. He has made over 150 movies—works that live not in-between, but within cultures. His work is a reflection of his personal commitment to epistemological disobedience and the investigation of different ways of thinking, feeling and doing.
Jorge’s fiction shorts have been screened at TIFF and Sundance, and internationally at many festivals, museums and galleries. He initiated the Crossing Borders Film Festival, the aluCine Toronto Latin Media Festival and converSalon in collaboration with Alexandra Gelis. Jorge is currently working on several feature-length deliriums, architectural installations and film fetish short forms in Toronto, Ontario, where he lives.
Join us following the event for a reception at Moonlight Lounge (319 Augusta Ave.) to celebrate Jorge Lozano's receipt of the Governor General's Award.
Identically Different
2018 - 20 mins - Super 8 two-screen Projection - Sound
Using W. S. Burroughs cut-up technique Jorge puts together fragments that became events that became narratives that became incoherent realities called past, vague and real as the present.
Repetitions & transportations
2018 - 5 mins - Super 8 - Sound - B&W
The ascending and descending musical repetitions of shadows on sand.
punctuactions
2017 - 6 mins - Super 8 on 16 mm - Sound - B&W and Colour
The joy of celebrating being and forms. A work mediated by the use of hand held, chemical interventions and built with the remnants of overexposed Super 8 moving landscapes.
Cine Blanc
1980 - 20 mins - Super 8 on 16mm - Sound - B&W
World Premiere
Made with the initial intention to question art’s transformation from radical stands to the rejoicing with banality and conformism the film ended up as a series of playful incongruences. The 80’s film is lost but Jorge remade it from second takes and edited transfers from 1993. Made with Rebecca Garret in the 80’s.
dis-continuity
1987 - 5 mins - Super 8 - Sound - Colour
A found reel of Super 8 film with an old cassette tape warped by time version of Sweet Jane by Lou Reed provokes a visual reflection on history as discontinuities.
