This Friday, Sept 29, Santa Rosa, CA (Sonoma County): *Visual Music and Early Abstract Films*
Center for Visual Music and Chroma Gallery present an outdoor salon-style screening of abstract films from the CVM archive, exploring the relationships between images and music. The event features historical films from the CVM archive and contemporary videos projected in the garden behind Chroma Gallery. Abstract films by Oskar Fischinger, Mary Ellen Bute, Jules Engel, John Stehura and others, plus contemporary work by Bret Battey, Chris Harvey, LIA, Robert Seidel, Steve Woloshen and more. Curator/archivist Cindy Keefer of CVM will introduce the films. CVM is an archive devoted to visual music, experimental animation and abstract cinema. CVM restores and distributes films to museums, galleries, festivals and venues worldwide. Recently films from CVM have screened at SFMOMA, Berkeley Art Museum, MOMA NY, Guggenheim NY, Whitney Museum, Centre Pompidou, Tate Modern, BFI, and many other venues worldwide. Many of the films on tonight’s program have been restored by CVM. Films will be screened digitally. Chroma Gallery, doors 8 pm. Tickets $8 at the door. 312 South A Street, Santa Rosa, CA (SOFA Arts District). http://chromagallery.net/visual-music-and-early-abstract-films/ Films include: Oskar Fischinger, *Studie nr 5*, 1930, Germany Oskar Fischinger, *Allegretto*, 1936-43, US Oskar Fischinger, *Radio Dynamics, *US Mary Ellen Bute, *Polka Graph*, 1947, US Mary Ellen Bute, *Color Rhapsodie*, 1948, US John Stehura, *Cibernetik 5.3*, 1960-65, US Barry Spinello, *Sonata for Pen, Brush and Ruler*, 1968, US. Steve Wood, *Optical Audio,* 2015, US. Jules Engel, *Play-Pen*, 1986, US. Steve Woloshen, *Shimmer Box Drive*, 2007, Canada. Chris Harvey, *Rainbow Dancers*, 2007, US. Bret Battey, *Clonal Colonies I: Fresh Runners,* 2011, UK. LIA, *Construction 76*, 2008, Austria. Robert Seidel, *_grau,* 2004, Germany. ****************** For those who can't attend, some of these films are available on CVM's new *Visual Music 1947-1986 DVD*, details at centerforvisualmusic.org/visualmusicdvd ****************** News coming soon about the West Coast premiere of *Oskar Fischinger: Raumlichtkunst *in December, in San Francisco! best regards, Cindy Keefer Center for Visual Music www.centerforvisualmusic.org Please note, the* CVM email is cvmaccess (at) gmail.com <http://gmail.com> *
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