Live Transmissions Paris, Turtle Salon

Music: Nick Cash aka Honkys With Humility
for Turtle Salon curated by Michael Shamberg


Camera: Amy Cash
Venue: Gallerie Ivana De Gavardie
Hosts: Ivana Gavardie & Arnaud Lefebvre

TURTLE SALON :
Lundi 17 octobre
14h30 Malin Stahl "Going Nowhere" vidéo

Antoine Moreau "je me vois en" video

Michael Shamberg New Order videos "Blue Monday", "Run", True Faith" ...


Melody Owen "quebec", "prairie fire", "explosions", "boat", "polar bear", 
"white whale", "white wolves", "iceland", "pressed" video

Anna Faroqhi "Grenzgänger" video

Frederic Nauczyciel"Where did all the fun go ?" video

19h Ryo Takahashi "Vent Coulis" video

19h Marie-France Jean
L'oiseau tache se situe dans l'espace-paysage de la feuille de papier.
Le nom de 
l'oiseau, lorsqu'on le prononce, se situe dans l'espace-paysage sonore.
Ce soir 
cet espace sonore c'est aussi vous qui le composez ("aussi" fait allusion au 
personnes présentes, leur respiration leurs mouvements et aux bruits 
extérieurs de la rue)

19h15 Chloé Bressan et Gilles Plazy Poésie/Duo/Canal une 
lecture-performance. Présentation Etel Adnan
Ce dialogue est une adaptation par ses deux auteurs du livre La Poésie, 
la tarte aux pommes et le topinambour de saint Augustin (La Part Commune, 2011) 
établi d'après la correspondance entretenue par eux en courriels de 2008 
à 2010. Il s'agit d'une réflexion à deux voix, tout 
à fait sérieuse, sur la poésie considérée 
comme pratique littéraire certes, mais encore plus comme souffle vital 
disant une manière d'être au monde. Ils ne craignent pas de le dire : la 
poésie peut bien être une affaire spirituelle, sans pour autant nous 
faire perdre le sens de l'humour...


Chloé Bressan
Ecrivaine et comédienne, née à Brive la Gaillarde (Corrèze) 
en 1980, elle a été maquilleuse pour le cinéma et 
calligraphe pour le doublage de séries télé avant de 
s'orienter vers le théâtre comme auteure et comme comédienne.
Très tôt requise par la poésie, et marquée particulièrement 
dès l'âge de vingt ans par Yves Bonnefoy et Rainer Maria Rilke, elle a repris 
tard ses études, en littérature anglaise (William Blake, William 
Wordsworth, Virginia Woolf...) et en théâtre pour la théorie 
(Artaud, Grotowski, Claudel, Ionesco, Becket) et pour la pratique (cours de 
Raymond Acquaviva).
Elle est l'auteure de poèmes, nouvelles et pièces de théâtre. Son 
expérience double d'auteure et de comédienne lui permet aussi 
d'animer des ateliers d'expression poétique.
Gilles Plazy
Ecrivain et plasticien, né le 2 janvier 1942. Diplômé de 
l'Institut d'Etudes Politique de Paris. Longtemps journaliste pour divers 
journaux ou magazines. A été aussi pendant deux ans conseiller de 
programme auprès du directeur de France Culture. Membre de l'Association 
internationale des critiques d'art.
A publié depuis 1970 une cinquantaine d'ouvrages parmi lesquels des 
romans, des nouvelles, des poèmes (L'Amande intérieure, La Part Commune, 
2008), des biographies (Pablo Picasso, Eugène Ionesco, Gustave Courbet, Marlene 
Dietrich), des études consacrées à différents 
artistes (Cézanne, Van Gogh, Matisse, le Douanier Rousseau, Fra Angelico, 
Chagall) et écrivains (Julien Gracq, Henry Miller, Georges Perros, 
Tristan Corbière, René Char), une Histoire de l'art en images (Adam Biro, 
1999) L'Aventure des grands impressionnistes (Pygmalion, 2003), La Femme 
impressionniste, (Adam Biro, 2003).



Mardi 18 octobre
14h30 Amos Poe "Empire II" film

19h-19h45 Nick Cash "Live Transmissions" Sons + vidéo
Nick Cash , percussionist with cult bands, Fad Gadget, prag VEC, The Lines, 
Thick Pigeon, Unmen. and The Members  is bringing a new solo show to Paris under 
the Turtle Salon banner, the anarchic salon curated by Michael Shamberg. 
"Live Transmissions" 
Features Cash playing live percussion, electronics and a crude stringed 
instrument he has created for this event.  Videos made by artists, filmmakers 
and musicians in collaboration with Cash will be shown in conjunction with the 
performance. The videos will be projected with Cash playing along live to 
augment, highlight and at times be in opposition to the soundtrack. 
The evening will also see the debut release by Honky's With Humility, titled    
"Films About Music"  - Nick Cash's first solo album. 
	
						

New Order au Bataclan 

Mercredi 19 octobre

14h30 Empty Room with Casual Sound, A project of Julian Mereuta with Eiji Suzue, 
Ned Richardson, Malin Stahl, Stanton Miranda, Kim Schoenstadt, Law and Fiction, 
Corpstrain

15h30 Jem Cohen "The Lost Book Found" film

16h30 Joshua Frankel "Plan of The City" film

17h Rosemarie Castoro "River of Street" vidéo

17h30 Irit Batsry "A Simple Case of Vision" film

Jeudi 20 octobre

14h30 Robert Huot 
"Face of Faces", "Scratch", "Spray" films

15h Dorian Kutos , "Knife and the Wound", Short films : "Transportation", "Study 
in Line And Color", "Shape of Rage", "Existentialist Waltz", "Viva Zulueta"

19h Eloïse Decazes Récital Furtif (voix, concertina)
Récital Furtif Performé par Eloïse Decazes ( voix, concertina) 
Au 
sein du duo de pop oblique Arlt, en solo ou accompagnée du guitariste 
expérimental Eric Chenaux, Eloïse Decazes est chanteuse. En parallèle 
à ses dites activités musicales, elle élabore un vaste 
ensemble d'images photographiques à l'amateurisme revendiqué, 
 éloge du beau hasard, célébration de l'invisible, traque 
des lumières secondes et conversation rêveuse avec les fantômes. 
Quelques 
unes de ces images sont exposées à la galerie à l'occasion 
de cette nouvelle édition de Turtle.
Elle viendra ce soir donner un 
récital.
Ce sera bref, imprévisible, à la fois spectral et 
incarné, comme toujours.
19h45 Grateful Dad. Performance et chansons de l'écrivain Michka Assayas.
Michka (chant, ukulélé et basse) ; Raige P. (guitare) ; Antoine 
Assayas (percussions). 
En août 1980, j'achète chez New Rose, à Paris, Closer, le second 
et ultime album, déjà posthume, de Joy Division. J'ai vingt et un 
ans. Je sais que ce disque va être pour moi une révélation. 
New Order, le groupe qui a succédé à Joy Division, est 
à la source de mon amitié avec Michael Shamberg. Grâce à 
lui, je peux assister en 1985 au tournage à Manchester de la vidéo 
de « The Perfect Kiss » de New Order. Un moment magique. Ces 
années-là, écrire sur la musique est pour moi une 
nécessité. Voire une mission. Je le fais à Rock & Folk et 
à Libération. 
Vingt ans après, en 2006, mon fils Antoine (alors quinze ans) apprend la 
batterie.  Pour passer du temps avec lui, je me mets à la guitare basse. 
Je découvre aussi le ukulélé. Quatre cordes, c'est plus 
simple que six. Je retrouve mes bases (précaires) de guitariste et joue 
spontanément en accords sur ma basse, ce qui est curieux. 
Je découvre que je chante et que c'est un besoin. Je trouve des bribes de 
chansons magiques, entre folk, punk-rock et psychédélisme. Un ami 
guitariste, Raige, venu du curieux groupe parisien Françoise, m'aide à 
les structurer. Il a une patience d'ange avec moi. 
Ce soir, je ferai de la musique pour Michael comme s'il était chez moi, 
dans mon salon. - M.A. 

Vendredi 21 Octobre

14h30 Kanerva Cederström présentation et film "Tove and Tooti in Europe"

16h Michael Shamberg "p.s. beirut" film

Sarah Waller " Burn" film

Greg Harriott "Under" film

Geert Mull video

19h Rachel Stella Banier-Bettencourt, deux histoires hypocrites. 
Présentation et films

Qu'en est-il de Turtle? J'ai reflechi à ma participation. Je voudrais 
faire acte, à ma manière, d'indignation. Ainsi ma 
présentation s'intitule Banier-Bettencourt, sous le signe de 
l'hypocrisie. Il s'agit de 2 films que j'ai produit: 13 minutes sur 
François-Marie Banier et ensuite  46 minutes sur Pierre Bettencourt, le 
beau-frère de Liliane. On trompe un peu sur la marchandise, car Pierre ne 
dit rien de Liliane Bettencourt. Mais exploiter la curiosité malsaine du 
public est stratégique, n'est-ce pas?

Samedi 22 Octobre

14h30 Elisabeth Károlyi.Il faut que les bruits deviennent 
musique", in Robert Bresson, "Notes sur le cinématographe", Paris, 1975
 
bande originale du film Le diable, probablement, réalisé par 
Robert Bresson en 1977. Sur une idée d'Elisabeth Károlyi.

16h Melissa Kretschmer "Passage", "Spiral Gritty" video
Daniel Katarina "In Conversation With Sócrates" video

17h30 Catherine Belkhodja, lecture
Quand nous sommes las du Réel, la recherche perpétuelle de la case 
manquante permet de saturer l'esprit jusqu'à la résolution de 
l'énigme. C'est plus puissant que le prozac, sans devoir subir les effets 
secondaires. Les accros au  prozac veulent voir la vie en rose.  Vous lez 
reconnaîtrez au sourire niais qu'ils arborent, et à leur 
fébrilité excessive au moment du sevrage. 
Si vos idées 
sont trop noires, avant de vous suicider, pensez à résoudre 
quelques énigmes. La recherche de la vérité permet de 
suspendre quelque temps les petits tracas quotidiens ou même le 
désespoir. Plutôt que la quête perpétuelle du chiffre, j'ai 
privilégié la recherche de mots ou de symboles.
Je vous invite 
donc à résoudre ces mokaz, dont il faudra retrouver les mots ou 
les symboles manquants.
Tous présentent des séries de 9 à 
compléter.
9 mots ou symboles doivent se trouver sur chaque ligne, chaque 
colonne ou chaque grand carré de 9 cases.
Une posologie compétente 
permet d'équilibrer le dosage subtil qui vous  redonnera le goût de 
vivre.
L'automne indien  a sans doute contribué à adoucir la 
rentrée.
Si le temps vous importe, je vous suggère de traquer les 
symboles atmosphériques, case par case, en vous demandant quel temps fait 
- elle ?
Nul doute que cela ensoleillera vos nuits et vos jours ...
Attention 
à ne pas dépasser la dose prescrite, sous peine de quitter 
définitivement le Réel, pour d'autres cieux plus cléments 
...
« Atmosphère, Atmosphère, Atmosphère toi 
même ! »
Courte lecture de 10 minutes , suivie d'une performance collective sur 
un mokaz.
Accessoire souhaité : un chevalet ou tableau

18h30 Anne Bertrand August at the New York Public Library lecture
Critique, Anne Bertrand enseigne l'histoire de l'art à l'École 
supérieure des arts décoratifs de Strasbourg, où elle est 
responsable des éditions. 
En 2009, elle a publié "Le Présent de Robert Frank". Photographie 
et films (D'une certaine manière éditions, La Rochelle), 
l'année suivante, "Yves Chaudouët" (Actes Sud, Arles), et en 2011, elle a 
dirigé l'anthologie "Tacita Dean. Écrits choisis 1992-2011" (coll. 
« Que dit l'artiste ? », École supérieure des arts 
décoratifs de Strasbourg). 
Elle prépare actuellement, sous la direction de François Brunet et de 
Michel Poivert, une thèse sur les écrits et propos de Walker Evans.

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Films and videos

IRIT BATSRY 

"A Simple Case of Vision" by Irit Batsry, with sound track by Stuart Jones 
http://www.iritbatsry.com 
Following a Buckminster Fuller text about the 
evolution of his vision, the viewer might be wondering about the notion of 
"normal" vision and the way we perceive the world. The text is constantly 
transforming into images, creating an experience parallel to the one described 
in it: simultaneously entering and staying outside.
12 minutes - Video 1" NTSC - 
color & B&W - mono - © 1991 Irit Batsry
Camera, Editing, Image-processing, 
Production : Irit Batsry
Text quoted from : R. Buckminster Fuller
Soundtrack : 
Stuart Jones

ROSEMARIE CASTORO 

"River of Street" (2011) 23 min. 

When finally able to ride my bicycle through the New York City streets on 
February 27, 2011, after an entire winter of constant snow storms, my helmet 
camera tracked a journey of discovery after a few days of dirty snow drifting. 
"Snow Jobs" were first discovered in 2003, passing by foot along West Houston 
Street, noting configurations that changed slightly over a period of a few days 
until collapsing. 2010 and 2011 snow storms gave me an opportunity to discover 
amusing images during my walking days. - Rosemarie Castoro
http://www.rosemariecastoro.com

KANERVA CEDERSTRÖM 

"Tove and Tooti in Europe", 2004 - 57 min 38 s

"Tove and Tooti in Europe" is a documentary of the voyages in Europe of author 
Tove Jansson and graphic artist Tuulikki Pietilä. It is a lyrical and 
sometimes hilarious film essay of the "Old Europe", experienced by travellers 
and observers, of the times when people used to wander, laugh, dwell and stop. 
The locations of the film are Paris, Venice, London, Madrid and Dublin ; 
Iceland, Ireland and Corsica.

JEM COHEN 

"The Lost Book Found" (1996, 37 min.)
 http://jemcohenfilms.com

The result of over five years of Super-8 and 16mm filming on New York City 
streets, Lost Book Found melds documentary and narrative into a complex 
meditation on city life. The piece revolves around a mysterious notebook filled 
with obsessive listings of places, objects, and incidents. These listings serve 
as the key to a hidden city: a city of unconsidered geographies and layered 
artifacts-the relics of low-level capitalism and the debris of countless 
forgotten narratives. The project stems from the filmmaker's first job in New 
York-working as a pushcart vendor on Canal Street. As usual, Cohen shot in 
hundreds of locations using unobtrusive equipment and generally without any 
crew. Influenced by the work of Walter Benjamin, Cohen created "an archive of 
undirected shots and sounds, then set out to explore the boundary" between 
genres. During the process, Cohen said, "I found connections between the street 
vendor, Benjamin's 'flaneur', and my own work as an observer and collector of 
ephemeral street life." (© http://arttorrents.blogspot.com/) 

ANNA FAROQHI 

"Grenzgänger" (All Along the Border) 2011, 6:30 min Documentary by school 
children at Workshop Deutsche Guggenheim. Edited and produced by Anna Faroqhi 
and Haim Peretz.

JOSHUA FRANKEL 

"Plan of The City". 2011,
 
13 minutes
 
Plan of the City is a new animated film, conceived and directed by Joshua 
Frankel, about the architecture of New York City blasting off into outer space 
and resettling on Mars. The film's visuals are an animated collage combining 
live action footage, animated elements, illustrations and treated photographs, 
including photos taken by the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity made available 
to the public domain by the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
http://joshuafrankel.net 

GREG HARRIOTT 

"Under": What began as an underwater cinematography experiment, grew into the 
short film Under through a series of dreams and inspiration from reading first 
hand accounts with shamans.  In "Under", a shaman and his son are captured by a 
powerful rival, the Tall Man, who sends the father to an underwater 
netherworld.  The father tries to surface but is held back by obstacles that the 
Tall Man sends through various portals on the surface.  Eventually the son 
intervenes to help the father surface and banishes their enemies to their own 
underwater fate.  The underwater sequences are shot with a custom built 
underwater housing for the Panasonic HVX200, and were filmed in a pool and 
freshwater springs.
"Under":  2010 USA Length:  12 minutes Credits: 
Director/Cinematographer/Editor:  Greg Harriott Sound Design:  Michael Chobot 
Colorist:  Mark Harriott Underwater Camera Design:  Greg Harriott, Mike Doyle 
The Shaman:  Tim Robinson The Tall Man:  Vince Perretti
The Shaman's Son: Iddo 
Schejter ride once the snow melted on the city streets, February 27. 23:10 min 
http://www.gregharriott.com

ROBERT HUOT 

"Face of Faces" (1976)
 (sound-on-tape) 4-3/4 min. B&W. Silent (16FPS)
N.B. Soundtrack on cassette.

"...a film of four superimposed images of four different expressions, which fuse 
to create an image of a single multi-featured being."-Scott MacDonald, "The 
Films of Robert Huot: 1967 to 1972", Quarterly Review of Film Studies, Summer 
1980.
"This film is the quadruple superimposition of four faces, two men and two 
women. These images often appear to be one fantastic undulating face perpetually 
changing. The images are shot thru a circular mat in an attempt to get away from 
the dominant rectangular film image (much as earlier filmmakers have done). I 
have recently added a sound track, on separate cassette tape. It is the Talking 
Head's 'Seen and Not Seen.' The film can be viewed with or without the track-or 
first with, then without." -Robert Huot.

"Scratch" (1966-67)
 11 min. B&W. Silent (24FPS).

"Leader" and "Scratch" are extensions of Huot's early interest in minimalism. 
They are successful in reducing the number of filmic variables so completely 
that essential qualities and potentials of the materials of film can be felt. 
While "Scratch" is nothing more than eleven minutes of dark leader with a 
continuous handmade scratch, the resulting imagery varies a good deal, depending 
on how deeply Huot dug into the emulsion : when the scratch is shallow, for 
example, it seems to bead and move up through the image ; when the scratch is 
deep, it seems to remain within the frame, vibrating horizontally. "Leader" is a 
bit less extreme than Scratch. Framed within beginning and ending passages of 
academy leader, strips of black, green, and clear leader alternate, at first 
every thirty seconds, then more and more quickly, and finally much more slowly. 
These regular alternations intensify our awareness of some of the potential 
variations in the direction and mode of our attention during screening. When 
green leader is projected, continual shifts in color density tend to keep the 
eye attentive to the screen. During passages of black leader, on the other hand, 
the screen is so dark that it provides almost nothing to look at ; as a result, 
one's attention tends to be drawn to other light sources, especially to the 
projector, if it is within the screening space. When clear leader is projected, 
we are aware both of the tiny events occurring on the screen and of the lighted 
screening space.-Scott MacDonald, "The Films of Robert Huot: 1967 to 1972", 
Quarterly Review of Film Studies, Summer 1980.

 "Spray" (1967)
 11-1/2 min. B&W. Silent (24FPS)

An extraordinary ebbing and flowing, dotting and pulsing 'abstract' field film. 
The filmmaker-painter Huot painted this film by spray painting a 12 minute 
length of clear film. When projected this single gesture contains a fascinating 
atomized space.-Michael Snow.
http://www.roberthuot.com

DANIEL KATARINA

"In Conversation With Sócrates" [2011]
 10 minutes, HD Video [1920x1080 25P]
"In Conversation with Sócrates"  is a 10-minute video of a conversation 
with Brazilian football legend Sócrates. (He was captain of Brazil and 
Corinthians during the 1980s and was involved in the Corinthians Democracy 
movement where he took advantage of his football fame to promote democracy 
during the military dictatorship.
Sócrates discusses  beauty in football and compares football to art. 
In this confusion between philosophy, football and 
art, some deeper meanings emerge about how we live our lives and how we think 
about art.
What kind of Art I do is a tricky question I have never really managed to answer 
but I organise events and exhibitions (sometimes regularly like the susak expo 
biennale that started in 2006) and sometimes as one day shows set up in the 
small slots of time that gallery have empty between shows (like the Madagascar 
show last June) and publish books and sometime make videos.
I also have 
exhibitions of paintings under the pseudonym of Herzog Dellafiore.
If you are 
interested, here is my main website where you can find all the confusion in one 
place:
www.susakpress.com  
and here are 
others:
www.susakexpo.org  
www.herzogdellafiore.co.uk 
 
www.neoformalism.com 
 
www.studio1-4.com 

MELISSA KRETSCHMER

"Passage" video, 2005,
 3 min 13 sec

"Spiral Gritty" vidéo, 2005, 40 sec.

In the light of his retrospective at the Whitney Museum in New York combined 
with the realization of his proposal for "Floating Island" making a tour around 
the island of Manhattan, the genius of Robert Smithson has been very much 
present.  So it is that "Spiral Gritty" came to be.
The ground of "Spiral Gritty" consists of a failed attempt by Carl Andre at 
inorganic farming with iron oxide and household chemicals on a cracked 
dinnerplate.  The spiral is made of fine crushed stone laid out on that 
crystal-crusted surface.  The film was made on a small digital camera.  Keeping 
to the spirit of Smithson and his concept of entropy, I continued to document 
"Spiral Gritty" as it disintegrated in the changing weather, scattered by wind, 
pummeled by rain and baked in the city heat.
While it is clear that Smithson was utterly serious about his art, I believe he 
would have appreciated the humour in this homage.  It is my tribute to an artist 
whose works and thoughts have been, and continue to be, deeply important to me 
as an artist.

Melissa Kretschmer, 13 October 2005

http://www.melissakretschmer.com

DORIAN KUTOS

"Knife and the Wound"

This is my second feature film (the first is still being edited). This film is a 
collection of memories about the demise of my parent's marriage, stories they 
told me and events that happened in my personal life. Everything that takes 
place in this film, has a counterpart in reality (everything in it is based on 
true events, no exception). The narrative of the film deals with the 
disintergration of a marriage, but this narrative is intterupted by One; a 
parrallel film that adapts a poem entitled "Summer With Monika" that describes 
the blooming and decaying of a relationship in a playful surreal way, (which in 
truth sets the tone of the whole film, where the images aspire to a kind of 
psychological realsim, that conveys the emotional truth in a more accurate way 
than if I employed absolute, stark realism) and Two; real life interviews with 
cast members about the film they are acting in and things about their own 
personal relationships. The film becomes a sort of stained glass window, or 
mosaic about relationships, and the relationship of the actors to the film 
itself, and the director to the actors and the film. Levels of reality are built 
up inside the film and then deconstructed or completely exposed. It was only my 
second attempt at directing a feature film, so ofcourse there is alot of 
amatuerish elements. I hope this film doesn't send you screaming from your tv. I 
hope there is some little glimmer of artistry you can appreciate in this film. 
Short films :

"Transportation"
 - an exercise in interpreting a poem through purely visual 
and rythmic means. The "Hope" of Randall Jerrell Warner's poem is represented as 
a newly built bridge constructed after the destruction of Hurricane Katrina. The 
intertitles are in Greek for irreverant reasons.

"Study in Line And Color" - Title says it all. All hand painted or scratched into leader.

"Shape of Rage"
 - An attempt to recreate the mental state of intense, disorienting rage.

"Existentialist Waltz"
 - A collaborative effort where my friend Adrian did 
the music and I put it images. (the spelling is very important, it must be 
spelled ExISTENtialist with the letters ISTEN capatilized within the word.)

"Viva Zulueta"
 - A tribute to the great Spanish film maker who sadly passed away.

"Second Attempt at Belson"
 - Here I try my hand at the style of film making pioneered by Jordan Belson



ANTOINE MOREAU
 
"je me vois en", (durée : 03,10 mn),
 juillet 2011.

Musique : JP Papy, Le miroir in album Volume 7, 2006, copyleft Licence Art 
Libre.Copyleft : this video is free, you can copy it, distribute it and modify 
it according to the terms of the Free Art License http://artlibre.org
http://antoinemoreau.org

GEERT MUL
http://www.geertmul.nl/

FREDERIC NAUCZYCIEL

"Where did all the fun go ?"

Feat. Francesca (New York)

Film 5'42"

Extrait de l'installation The Fire Flies, Francesca (Baltimore)

© Frédéric Nauczyciel, 2011

Programme Hors les Murs, Institut Français, Etats-Unis, 2011

"Where did all the fun go ?" fait partie d'une série de films et 
enregistrements sonores réalisés avec un Iphone, durant un voyage 
de 5 mois à Baltimore, en passant par New York et Washington.
Ces enregistrements documentent une traversée intime de la 
masculinité en milieu hostile et accompagnent un travail photographique 
avec les Voguers de Baltimore et la rencontre avec Francesca à New York. 

http://seeyoutomorrow.free.fr/

MELODY OWEN
 
dvd quebec 3:52, prairie fire 2:22; explosions :38, boat 1:57, polar bear 2:04; 
white whale 4:13, white wolves 2:17, iceland 4:57, pressed 1:26
I am consistently focused on communication, intersections and tensions that 
occur between animals/nature/humans/technology. I keep returning visually and 
conceptually to the concept of particles and of unity, the way that many parts 
come together to make a whole. I am thinking of both matter and mind.  I 
expressed this concept early on with installed multiples, many pennies, many 
hummingbird feeders.  In video, I explore it with the meeting of eyes.  The 
passage of time, the perception of time.
"The earth is moved from its position by the weight of a tiny bird resting upon 
it." This quote by Leonardo da Vinci expresses a concept of integration and 
interconnectedness that continually fascinates me.  The earth is crashing all 
around us now.  I am especially worried about the environment.  I am very 
concerned for the animals and trees.  Millions of people are constantly staring 
at tiny screens now.  What does this mean for us?
I make work using both chance and decision.  I make collage or sculpture 
depending on the materials at hand.  I like to incorporate travel into my work.  
My interests spread across all the disciplines I practice.  I make things in 
Quebec which could have only have been made in Quebec, same with Iceland, and 
Portland.  I integrate technology into my work.  The tactile/analog and the 
digital live side by side.  I got my rules for living out of a storybook.  
Some of my videos are drawings, some are collage, some are collected from 
others, some I shot myself.  Brigitte Bardot  represents the spinning endless 
madness of beauty and love.  The whale seems to speak.  A lions roar.  Time is a 
running theme and I am peeling away at it as it is peeling away at me.  And what 
is that golden thread?

Melody Owen, October 11, 2011 http://thistlepress.net

AMOS POE

 "Empire II" 3h http://www.amospoe.com
 "A tone-poem meditation on the city of our dreams. With music by Patti Smith, 
 Jim Carroll, Lucinda Williams, Jeff Buckley, Jimmie James, Steve Earle, Cassis 
 Staudt, Max Nova, Gram Rabbit, Peggy Lee, Allison Moorer, Hysterics, Debbie 
 Harry, B.B. King, Pink Martini, ... and many more." 

MICHAEL SHAMBERG
 
"p.s. beirut"
"a bricolage of scars, traces of repair, iconic meditations on the other side of 
war" MHS
From http://www.vimeo.com/13620616
"p.s. beirut chapter 1"
2008, 7:11 minutes, color, stereo 4:3
Producer, director, camera, editor: 
Michael H. Shamberg
Writer: Etel Adnan
Music: Marcus Acher
Co-Producers: 
Isabelle Doyen, Edward Richardson for lightblack

Emanuelle Riva (voice)
Bernard 
Sumner (singing Procession, New Order)
Nadine in Cafe Torino
Fouad Elkoury
Etel 
Adnan (off camera)
Man in Bourj Hammoud
Hiba's hand
Beirut


Director' Notes:
In 1981 Volker Schlondorff was filming CIRCLE OF DECEIT in 
Beirut with the ongoing civil war (1975-90) as a backdrop, and real fighters 
playing themselves.
This news, which i discovered in Etel Adnan's story AN 
AMERICAN MALADY, brought Etel and I together to develop the feature script 
BENJAMIN'S BRIEFCASE - a reference to what was lost when Walter Benjamin's body 
was found.
Christmas 2004, I arrived in Beirut and filmed for two weeks. The 
idea of a feature transformed into a personal journey.
This is the first chapter 
in the series p.s. Beirut, the story of how I found Benjamin's briefcase.
MHS 2008
http://www.turtlesalon.com/

New Order videos see http://www.galeriearnaudlefebvre.com/bio.php?bio=75

MALIN STÅHL

"Going Nowhere", 4:38 min., 2011. Slowly the headlights of a car capture the 
figure of a woman dressed up as a deer, posing, escaping, stopping, posing. On 
another stretch of road a rabbit is caught in the headlights, it is the woman 
again, but this time more in character of an animal caught in headlights, 
running, running across, running away. Using the characters White Canary (Deer), 
Death and the Rabbit the artist acts out a drama of dress-up, disguise and 
slight confusion framed by images of a winters landscape and set to tunes of 
jazz music. 

http://www.malinstahl.se/



RYO TAKAHASHI
"Vent Coulis" La Marche de Marie-France Jean, 2011, 12 min.

SARAH WALLER
 
Filmmaker's Statement: " Burn" was inspired by the work of photographer Cindy 
Sherman and the late filmmaker Maya Deren. A young woman interacts with her 
physical environment through abstract movement. The woman takes on alternate 
characters in every new room she inhabits. The claustrophobic space she resides 
in slowly burns into her psyche and finally gives way to the natural world and 
the expansiveness of a winter horizon. "Burn" is a surreal reflection on the 
multiple roles women take on, ranging from a housewife to a sultry femme 
fatale.
"Burn", an experimental short film: 2005 Length: 9 minutes and 42 
seconds  Medium: Black and White 16mm Film transferred digitally  Credits: 
Cinematographer, Director, Producer and Editor: Sarah Waller  Concept: Sarah 
Waller and Katie Martin  Choreographer and Performer: Katie Martin Costume 
Designer: Joseph Mazzarelli  Score: Langdon C. Crawford 
* "Burn" premiered at 
Dance on Camera Film Festival in January 2005 in New York, NY
Biography: Sarah 
Waller is an up and coming American filmmaker and Writer. Residing in Brooklyn, 
NY. She has held various titles on award winning Documentaries and Television 
Programming.