New York filmmaker Mark Street works
exuberantly across genres: from abstraction to diary films to improvised
narrative features. Working with found films and his own exquisitely
photographed footage of urban scenes, he adds further layers of visual beauty by
hand-processing and hand-painting the films. At Eyedrum, Mark Street will
present a selection of his films, introducing the works and answering questions
about them.
For the last 20 years, Mark Street has found himself drawn to cities, with their
endless possibilities, surprises and contradictions. How does the urban milieu
serve our need to explore and wander, to be at once alone and in company?
Street’s works update and expand our definition of the urban landscape film.
Fulton Fish Market (12 minutes, 2004) is an
abstract portrait of a teeming urban market, and A Year
(26 minutes, 2006) is a dynamic and conflicted middle aged diary film featuring
Street’s anxious, deadpan onscreen commentary. Guiding Fictions
(5 minutes, 2002) contrasts city and country, and Alone, Apart: the dream
reveals the waking day (7 minutes, 2006) traces
urban decay with hand processed 16mm film. Blue Movie
(2000, 5 minutes) and Trailer Trash (2008,
5 minutes) appropriate 16mm film detritus (foraged on the street) into sublime
and surprising cinematic tapestries. Also on the bill is Oskar Fischinger’s 1928
Munchen/Berlin Wanderung – a walk with a camera
from one city to another – a between-city symphony.
Mark Street has shown work in the New York Museum of Modern Art, at Anthology
Film Archives, Millennium, and the San Francisco Cinematheque. His work has
appeared at the following film festivals: Tribeca, Sundance, Rotterdam, New
York, London, San Francisco, New York Underground, Sarajevo, Viennale, Ourense
(Spain), Mill Valley, South by Southwest, and others. He is Assistant Professor
of Film in the Visual Art Department at Fordham University, Lincoln Center.
Mark Street in A Year (2006)
Program:
films by
Mark Street Fulton Fish Market (35mm, 12
minutes, 2004) screened on digital video A Year (digital video, 26 minutes, 2006)
Guiding Fictions (35mm, 5 minutes, 2002)
screened on digital video Alone, Apart: the dream reveals the waking day
(digital video, 7 minutes, 2006) Blue Movie (16mm, 2000, 5 minutes) Trailer Trash (16mm, 2008, 5 minutes)
Oskar Fischinger: Munchen/Berlin Wanderung
(1928, 7 minutes)
("In the summer of 1927, Fischinger walked from Munich to Berlin,
carrying his camera and equipment in a backpack. This film consists of
single-frame images of he took of people and landscapes he encountered along the
way.")
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