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Saturday July 27, 7PM<\/strong><\/span>
\nIMMOVABLE OBJECTS<\/strong><\/span>
\nFilm works by Rachael Guma<\/span>
\n& a special performance by Optipus <\/span>
\nw\/ Bradley Eros,\u00a0Victoria Keddie, Timothy Geraghty, and Rachelle Rahme<\/span>
\nadmission $6 – artist in person
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\nFrom\u00a018fps, 45rpm, 3spi <\/em>(Rachael Guma, 2005)
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\nMicroscope Gallery is very pleased to welcome Rachael Guma for a night of her Super 8 film & film performance works involving live sound and vinyl record manipulations. Guma kicks off the program with a screening of\u00a0 Dear Phone<\/em>, the 1976 short film by Peter Greenaway, an artist who has highly inspired her work.\u00a0The night concludes with a live visual\/sound poem performance of “A Poison Tree – William Blake” by Guma and other members of the expanded cinema collective Optipus. <\/span>
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to objectify the object<\/em><\/span>
\nto embrace the accidents<\/em><\/span>
\nto build upon buildings<\/em><\/span>
\nto worship at the altar of analog<\/em><\/span>
\nto activate the inactive<\/em><\/span>
\nto see the sound<\/em><\/span>
\nto reconstruct the constructs<\/em><\/span>
\nto move the immovable\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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PROGRAM<\/strong><\/span>
\n(approximately 60 minutes)<\/span>
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\nDear Phone -\u00ad by Peter Greenaway<\/strong><\/span>
\n(1976, 17min, DVD)<\/span>
\n\u201cFourteen short anecdotes about the uses and abuses of the telephone\u201d. -\u00ad BFI<\/span>
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\nLa Ciudad de los Muertos (Cementerio de la Recoleta)<\/strong><\/span>
\n(2012, 3 min, Super 8, live sound)<\/span>
\nThe monuments of the past are alive in this city of the dead.<\/span>
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\nWASTE<\/strong><\/span>
\n(2005, 3 min, Super 8, silent)<\/span>
\nShot in glorious Kodachrome, WASTE delights in the discarded. Littered throughout the city\u00a0streets, these candy wrappers, fast food containers, and coffee cups invade the screen as\u00a0Ronald McDonald and the Starbucks mermaid vie for the spotlight.<\/span>
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\nHula Loop<\/strong><\/span>
\n(2012, 3 min, Super 8mm, live sound)<\/span>
\nHula hoops and record loops with The Hula Hoop Harlot. Live sound with 45\u2019 vinyl loops.<\/span>
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\nKids Playing in Front Yard<\/strong><\/span>
\n(2006, 7 min, VHS, color, sound)<\/span>
\nBaby birds hatch and the innocence of youth rides away from us on a brand new bike in this\u00a0reconstruction of a home movie.<\/span>
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\nSafe and Sound<\/strong><\/span>
\n(2006, 3 min, Super 8, live sound)<\/span>
\nSound manipulations off an old soul 45 record playing the melody of \u201cSafe & Sound\u201d by Fontella\u00a0Bass complement the silhouetted images of dispair.<\/span>
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\nPOW!<\/strong><\/span>
\n (2013, 3 min, Super 8, silent)<\/span>
\n Festival des Artes Autochtones du Solstice d\u2019\u00e9t\u00e9 et des Comp\u00e9titions Internationales du Powwow Annual.<\/span>
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\n Cyclone<\/strong><\/span>
\n (2012, 5min, Super 8 mm, live sound)<\/span>
\n A rollercoaster ride through moments in time.<\/span>
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\nIce Castles<\/strong><\/span>
\n(2012, 3 min, Super 8, silent)<\/span>
\n[fractured frosted fragments sunspot glass landscapes]<\/span>
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\n18fps, 45rpm, 3spi<\/strong><\/span>
\n(2005, 3-\u00ad5 min, Super 8, live sound)<\/span>
\nSuper 8 found-\u00adfootage film of the needle of a sewing machine blown up to 16 mm, hand-\u00adsewn,\u00a0re-\u00adphotographed back to Super 8, and hand-\u00adprocessed. The image of a pulsating needle as the\u00a0thread punctures through the surface of the film strip, while the sound of a stylus needle\u00a0scratches the surface of a rotating record player.<\/span>
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\nThe Poison Tree (by William Blake)<\/strong><\/span>
\n(2013, 5-\u00ad10 min, 16 mm\/Super 8\/video, live sound)<\/span>
\na visual poem with members of Optipus: Bradley Eros, Victoria Keddie, Timothy Geraghty,\u00a0Rachelle Rahme<\/span>
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\nI was angry with my friend \/ I told my wrath, my wrath did end. \/ I was angry with my foe: \/ I told it not, my wrath did grow.<\/span>
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\nAnd I watered it in fears, \/ Night & morning with my tears: \/ And I sunned it with smiles, \/ And with soft deceitful wiles.<\/span>
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\nAnd it grew both day and night. \/ Till it bore an apple bright. \/ And my foe beheld it shine, \/ And he knew that it was mine.<\/span>
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\nAnd into my garden stole, \/ When the night had veiled the pole; \/ In the morning glad I see; \/ My foe outstretched beneath the tree.<\/span><\/p>\n

(William Blake)
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\nRachael Guma is a filmmaker and sound artist currently living and working in Brooklyn,\u00a0New York. Through her experiments with Super 8 film and analog sound, Guma strives to\u00a0create an engaging live viewing experience that embraces the idiosyncratic qualities of\u00a0technology, while maintaining a hand-\u00adcrafted approach to her output. Since graduating\u00a0from the San Francisco Art Institute, her films have screened at the San Francisco\u00a0Cinematheque, RX Gallery, Mono No Aware, Northern Flickers, Microscope Gallery, and AXWFF\u00a02011 where she was asked to take part in a lively panel discussion on women filmmakers. As a\u00a0member of Optipus Film Collective, she has performed live foley sound at the Kitchen,\u00a0Participant Gallery, Dense Mesh IV, and the 2011 Index Festival.<\/span>
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\nBradley Eros is an artist working in myriad media: experimental film & video, collage, photography, performance, sound, text, contracted and expanded cinema & installation. Also a maverick curator, composer, designer & investigator. Concepts include: ephemeral cinema, mediamystics, subterranean science, erotic psyche, cinema povera, poetic accidents and musique plastique.<\/span>
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\n Tim Geraghty is an experimental filmmaker and video artist from Providence, Rhode Island, currently living in Brooklyn, New York. He\u2019s a professional broadcast news and documentary editor interested in radically reediting footage, especially found footage from his line of work, into films with the associative language of dreams. He has previously exhibited his works at Anthology Film Archives, Migrating Forms, Issue Project Room, Microscope Gallery, White Box, SCOPE NY, Lincoln Center, SUDLAB (Naples) and the Rotterdam International Film Festival.<\/span>
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\n Victoria Keddie is an artist who works with signal generation, magnetic fields and broadcast transmissions. She is the codirector of E.S.P. TV, an analog video live taping event and broadcast on MNN network for video, sound and performance. She is a part of ESP LAB with Scott Kiernan, where she performs compositions using signal generation magnetic tape, modulation and broadcast media. She is a member of the film based collective, Optipus.<\/span>
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\n Rachelle Rahme is an artist and musician living in Bushwick, Brooklyn. As a founding member of the Optipus collective, her collaborative relationship with Rachael Guma and the other members of tonight’s group is ongoing and organic, encompassing a wide range of mediums and performance practices.<\/span>
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\nFrom The Poison Tree <\/em>(Rachael Guma, 2013)
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