16mm abstract films by Maia Cybelle Carpenter and Anna Geyer accompanied by live music

Wed. July 29 @ 8PM
New Nothing Cinema
16 Sherman St (between 6th & 7th St. next to the park)
San Francisco, CA 94103
*Free (space is limited)*

The Bay Area Visual Music Meet-Up series continues with a mid-summer event at the New Nothing Cinema. This time, we'll see 16mm abstract films by Maia Cybelle Carpenter and Anna Geyer accompanied by live music.


PROGRAM
Maïa Cybelle Carpenter (http://www.mccarpenter.net )
1. Sans Titre 16mm, 7 min.
2. Nous (Us) - Work in progress (2009) 16mm, 28 min., with live sound by Wobbly (http://www.detritus.net/wobbly)

Anna Geyer ( http://www.dr-yo.com/loquat)
3. Ich bin ein junger Hupfer 16mm, 8 min.
4. ARAPADAPTOR (I Feel So) 16mm 4 min.
5, Perhaps a surprise!
6. Live 3 projector loop set in collaboration with Mickey T (http://drummachine.ning.com/) as audio god

MORE ABOUT THE FILM ARTISTS
Maïa Cybelle Carpenter positions her work against the narrative expectations of moving-image media. Through explorations of the material specificity of film and video, she seeks to produce new dialogues with philosophical and current cultural approaches to visual form. Taking identity politics beyond overt polemics, her work often engages audiences in multi-layered examinations of identity through spatial experiences.

Anna Geyer’s recent work is primarily camera-less, non-representational in nature, although she frequently describes her work as, “experimental with a narrative bent”. To produce material she applies her flashlight and laser, ala Man Ray, to the caterpillars, cicadas and seeds found in Chinese medicinal herb tea, (ARAPADAPTOR (I Feel So)), or springs and spring-like metal shavings (Ich bin ein junger Hupfer). Much of the original footage is further manipulated - painted tinted and/or bleached and finally slowed through the use of an optical printer.