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Choreographies of Creation and Destruction: The Live Cinemas of Greg Pope and John Davis
Greg Pope and John Davis in Person
Presented in association with ShapeShifters Cinema and Stanford University
In Apparent Motion 2012the performance cinema centerpiece to that year's CROSSROADS film festivalBritish artist Greg Pope brought down the house with the 16mm Cipher Screen, his two-projector masterwork of erasure and construction. For a follow-up appearance Pope returns to the Bay Area for a series of expanded cinema performances with live sound collaboration at Stanford University, ShapeShifters Cinema and Cinematheque. Tonight's program features Pope's Scorelinea live 16mm work for projector, contact mics and engraving tools, a searing study in texture and noise, a choreography of creation through destructionand his dual-slide projector piece Celluloid, described as a "celluloid ghost," a proto-cinematic excursion through the detritus of industrial cinema. Live soundtrack to Celluloid to be performed by Voicehandler. Preceding Pope is the Bay Area's own John Davis with his sound/image amalgams and live slow-motion image analysis. (Steve Polta)
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LocationCenter for New Music (View)
55 Taylor Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
United States
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