BITTER FIGURES SWEETENED FLESH 16mm Film Screening

BITTER FIGURES, SWEETENED FLESH
Films in Dialogue with the Paintings & Artistry of Angie Quick
Thursday, April 20, 7:00 p.m.
VAC Rm. 137E
Free Admission

Featuring films by Carolee Schneemann, Nazli Dinçel, Sarah Pucill, Tom Chomont, Jean Sousa, Chris Chong Chan Fui, Sharon Couzin, Patrick Bokanowski & Amy Halpern
Curated by Sebastian di Trolio

Inspired by the creative oeuvre of London, Ontario-based artist Angie Quick, this 16mm program seeks to interpret visual and thematic parallels between the painter's oils on canvas and the moving images of nine avant garde filmmakers exploring the photochemical medium.

Through an array of innovative techniques and aesthetics, these works unveil subconscious realities mirroring Quick's own celebration of the grotesque serenity of bodies melding in motion or the pulsating abstractions of landscapes askew, while wordless expressions conjure peripheral memories of psychodramatic narrative through intensively vulnerable yearnings, impulsive turmoil and intimate revelations obsessively etched in emulsion.