MassArt Film Society Presents
SHAMELESS (1974) by Victor Faccinto
WAVELENGTH (1967) by Michael Snow
Projected in 16mm film
Curated by Tara and Gordon Nelson
$4 Suggested Donation
SHAMELESS (1974) by Victor Faccinto 16mm, color, 13.5 min
Cut-out puppet animation. Not recommended for gentle sensibilities. Plagued
by his redundant existence, Video Vic follows his instincts into an outer
space environment, where he is faced with the cruel realities of his linear
life. Victor Faccinto's last cut-out film SHAMELESS exhibits a tension
within the form. As real penises penetrate paper vaginas, and cut-out men
investigate life-sized female parts, the film implies a potential synthesis
of metaphoric and real action; the film also suggests the exhaustion of
purely cut-out imagery by manipulation of materials, only now it is the
film itself which is scratched, painted or cut. -- Ian Birnie, Art Gallery
of Ontario
WAVELENGTH (1967) by Michael Snow 16mm, color, 45 min
WAVELENGTH was shot in one week in December, 1966, preceded by a year of
notes, thoughts, mutterings. It was edited and first print seen in May,
1967. I wanted to make a summation of my nervous system, religious
inklings, and aesthetic ideas. I was thinking of, planning for a time
monument in which the beauty and sadness of equivalence would be
celebrated, thinking of trying to make a definitive statement of pure Film
space and time, a balancing of illusion and fact, all about seeing. The
space starts at the camera's (spectator's) eye, is in the air, then is on
the screen, then is within the screen (the mind). The film is a continuous
zoom which takes 45 minutes to go from its widest field to its smallest and
final field. It was shot with a fixed camera from one end of an 80 foot
loft, shooting the other end, a row of windows and the street The room
(and the zoom) are interrupted by four human events including a death. The
sound on these occasions is sync sound, music and speech, occurring
simultaneously with an electronic sound, a sine-wave It is a total
glissando while the film is a crescendo and a dispersed spectrum which
attempts to utilize the gifts of both prophecy and memory which only film
and music have to offer.
*Descriptions courtesy of the Filmmakers Cooperative*
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