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Saturday January 18, 7pm<\/span><\/strong>
\nPURGATORY<\/span><\/strong>
\nNew and Recent Films & Videos by Josh Lewis<\/span>
\nadmission $6 – artist in person<\/span><\/h1>\n

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\nStill from “Double Happiness” (Josh Lewis, 2010\/2013) \u00a9 courtesy of the artist<\/span>
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\nMicroscope is very pleased to present a screening night of Super8, 16mm and video by Josh Lewis. We have been anticipating this evening since we were formally introduced to the Brooklyn-based artist when he screened his film \u201cExtinction Becomes Us: Kodachrome vs. SantaCon\u201c during the 2011 \u201cBring Your Own Kodachrome\u201d night organized by Pip Chodorov and Stephanie Gray at the gallery. With works ranging from abstraction to documentary and narrative filmmaking, Josh Lewis reflects an interest in the mechanisms of human need and desire. Through an approach that includes humor, satire and empathy, his films seek to explore the strategies in which we attempt (and fail) to transform ourselves.<\/span>
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\nJosh Lewis is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker working primarily with 16mm film\u2014a craft picked up while working as a film lab technician in New York City.\u00a0In addition to his own work, he is an active member of Mono No Aware, through which he operates an artist-run film lab focused on alternative and experimental photographic processes. His work has screened internationally and at various festivals and venues including Eyebeam, Uniondocs, Sight Unseen, Magic Lantern Cinema, Millennium Film Workshop, Cinecycle, Aurora Picture Show, and Yale University.\u00a0He is originally from the suburbs of New Jersey and is a member of the DecayNY collective. <\/span>
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\nPROGRAM<\/span><\/strong>
\n(55 minutes)<\/span>
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Doubt: Nos. 2-6<\/span><\/strong>
\n16mm, 2min 40 sec each, chemical toned\u00a0 B\/W film, silent, 2013<\/span><\/em>
\nDoubt is an ongoing series that attempts to penetrate film’s enigmatic materiality in tandem with the vagaries of my own emotional and psychological states. Each installment consists of a single 100′ roll of 16mm black and white film stock exposed with simple vertical lines that follow the natural trajectory of the film strip. Working under red light, the emulsion is then treated by hand with various chemical applications, giving the strip it its color, texture, and sense of movement. Although an idea of progress from roll to roll is not necessarily an objective, I do have sense that working and struggling with the material in this way will symbiotically further my understanding of what film is made of, and what I am made of.<\/span>
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\nWin the Lottery by Controlling your Mind<\/span><\/strong>
\nVideo, 3 min 20 sec, 2011<\/span><\/em>
\nEngineered to facilitate your winning the lottery through self-induced subliminal manipulation. Although it is one of many self-hypnosis lottery video aides, I believe it to be the best and most effective. You are more than you.<\/span>
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\nPillager<\/span><\/strong>
\n16mm, 4 min 30 sec, black and white, sound, 2011<\/span><\/em>
\nA 16mm chemical action painting made towards the end of my tenure as a grunt worker in a film processing lab.\u00a0 At the time when I was spending most of my days slacking off down in the lab’s sub basement playing with raw film stock and reversal chemicals.<\/span>
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\nDalia Dippolito Calls husband from Jail!<\/span><\/strong>
\nVideo, 11 min 23 sec, 2011<\/span><\/em>
\nSet against the desperate trappings of Florida luxury, a woman calls her husband from prison after trying to have him murdered.<\/span>
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\nExtinction Becomes Us: Kodachrome vs. SantaCon<\/span><\/strong>
\nSuper 8, 3min, color, silent, 2010<\/span><\/em>
\nBorn from a chance encounter with the post-irony age holiday bacchanalia known as SantaCon. Shot in December 2010 in New York’s Central Park with my last ever roll of Super-8 Kodachrome. A brief moment of overlap between two eras apparently at odds.<\/span>
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\nDouble Happiness: Excerpts #1-5<\/span><\/strong>
\nSuper 16mm transferred to video, approx 3 min each, B&W, sound, 2010\/2013<\/span><\/em>
\nAn ill-fated narrative project based on a line-by-line transcript of an episode of Beverly Hills 90210. The film was never completed; it exists now in 5 non-linear excerpts, doomed, and floating gently in self-reflexive obscurity.<\/span>
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\nANTIMATICAY<\/span><\/strong>
\n16mm, B&W and Color, 8 min, sound, 2014<\/span><\/em>
\nPart elegy, part pathological nonsense verse, emerging from two people ending a relationship over text message.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Still from “Doubt #2” (Josh Lewis, 2013) \u00a9 courtesy of the artist<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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