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Event
CITY AND COUNTRY | New Performance and Video Works by David Finkelstein
Friday , July 11th, 2014 / 8 PM
226 Green Street, Brooklyn
thepictureshow.org
Filmmaker and performer David Finkelstein collaborates with actors Cassie Tunick and Ian W. Hill and musician Danny Tunick to uncover hidden worlds and landscapes. Finkelstein's videos combine meticulously crafted digital imagery with original music and improvised text to explore inner reality in an elliptical and poetic manner. He bases these works on improvised performances in which the actors collaborate to craft a verbal landscape from an inner world. He then composes a musical score and creates a complex visual environment to help the viewer perceive the tremendous thematic and emotional unity which underlies the fluidity of the improvisation.
Works Shown:
The Unfolded Landscape (2014, live performance, approx. 25 min)
In a live performance work, Finkelstein and the two Tunicks use their collective imaginations to reveal a hidden world.
Invincible City (2012, 21 minutes)
In a city of dead ideas, dry, brittle conversations, and trembling, crystalized buildings, two men seek the proper approach to take towards the end of the world. Should one sit back, writing notes in a crumbling notebook, or should one rush headlong into the flames? Featuring Ian W. Hill.
Privy (2014, 20 minutes) WORLD PREMIERE
A young woman is forced to live with an unsympathetic stepmother, and spends much of her time in an outhouse, escaping into books and her own vivid fantasy life. Privy uses oblique, poetic language, fanciful images and musical interludes to depict her daydreams and her evolving plans for escape. Featuring Ian W. Hill, Michael Spaeth and Barbara Vann
DAVID FINKELSTEIN's video work has been featured in numerous film festivals around the world, such as Experiments in Cinema, Denver Underground Festival, New Vision Cinema, Park City Film Music Festival, Leeds International Festival (UK), Traverse Video (France), Cinesonika (Canada), and WRO (Poland) Festival. Altogether, his video works have won twelve awards at five different Festivals. In 2013, he was an invited artist at the Traverse Vidéo Festival in Toulouse, France. His first feature film premiered this year at New Filmmakers in New York. His video work has also been featured in one man shows at Artist Television Access (San Francisco), CRS (New York), Robert Beck Memorial Cinema (New York), Echo Park Film Center and LA Filmforum (Los Angeles), Medicine Show (New York), MSU Moorheard, and with Ross Wilbanks at Light Factory and Pura Vida in North Carolina. He has been commissioned three times to create videos for the Outmusic Awards, and these videos were subsequently shown on the PrideVision cable network and the PBS series "Under the Pink Carpet." His work has been funded by The Fund for Creative Communities, The Field, Movement Research, Meet the Composer, The Brooklyn Arts Exchange, BACA, and other sources.
More work can be previewed online: http://lakeivan.org
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LocationThe Picture Show (View)
226 Green St.
Brooklyn, NY 11222
United States
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