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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>,
"WRYTING-L : Writing and Theory across Disciplines" <WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject: Show details, Ellen Zweig and Leslie Thornton
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 00:31:22 -0500 (EST)
(Recently I sent out an announcement for the Millennium show of Ellen Zweig - we've been working on the 1000 Character Essay together - and Leslie Thornton - whose work I've known for 25 years. I asked them both for a fuller description of the screening, and here it is. Please try to attend if you're in the New York City area - Alan) Saturday, February 19 at 8 pm - you are invited to a video/film screening Ellen Zweig and Leslie Thornton's Adynata Zweig's video series HEAP and the world premiere of her 2005 video "a surplus of landscape" screens with Thornton's 1984 masterpiece, Adyanata. at Millenium Film Workshop, 66 East 4th St., NYC Admission: $7;members: $5 for information: phone: 212-673-0090 web: www. milleniumfilm.org Hope to see you there...ez and Leslie Program Ellen Zweig 3 videos from HEAP HEAP is a collection of experimental video portraits of Westerners who have studied, invented, misunderstood and loved China.� These videos explore the multiple misunderstandings and rare moments of connection between two cultures. By focusing on individual historic personages like John Searle, G.W. Leibnitz and Robert van Gulik, I hope to follow the complex attitudes that have developed in the West, creating an ambiguous and intense portrait of cultural contact. (tongue tongue stone) G. W. Leibnitz��� 2002���� 9:36 minutes Follow a trail of associations, close-up, caressing the surfaces of unusual rocks and folds of falling silk, hear the ringing sonorous stones.� A man and a dog carry rocks in their mouths.� Leibnitz, the philosopher of surfaces and interconnected depths, invented binary arithmetic because of a misunderstanding of the I-Ching. (The Chinese Room) John Searle��� 2001���������� 7:30 minutes A little girl running, reflections of a garden, calligraphy, tourists on a misty mountaintop.� A boy shouts in Chinese:� ~Syou can~Rt shoot here.~T The philosopher, John Searle, wrote about a thought experiment called ~SThe Chinese Room.~T He needed a foreign language to prove his point ; he chose Chinese (unsolved) Robert van Gulik��������� 2003���������� 18:03 minutes Referring to the Dutch diplomat van Gulik~Rs many interests, this video is a mystery story with no resolution ~V included are the ancient Chinese musical instrument, guqin; the wonderful ape called gibbon; the Judge Dee mysteries intermingled with a Caucasian man who is transformed into the Chinese opera character Judge Bao.� Meanwhile, there~Rs something hidden under the tarp on that boat ~V is it a body? Leslie Thornton Adynata���������������������������������������� 1984����������� 30 minutes An impossible world of exoticism and difference, an ~SOrient~T noticeably constructed in a play of seductive surfaces.� The film begins with an instance of fact~Wa formal portrait taken in 19th Century China of an aristocratic couple~Wthen proceeds on a series of false penetrations on a course of vulgar tourism of the ~SOther.~T� This inscrutable Other is seen variously as history, culture, woman, eroticism, madness, and violence through a complex of resonances which both engage the viewer in pursuit and deny any solace of ~Sknowing.~T� The surface remains constantly opaque.~WL.T, Ellen Zweig a surplus of landscape������������������� 2005������������ 8:52 minutes (World Premiere) A collage of landscapes; an interview with filmmaker, Leslie Thornton, while she is hooked up to a lie detector; a dance in a red dress.� Landscapes in places as various as China, France, California.� There are so many images of landscape.� Why would anyone travel when we can travel in our imaginations?� Digital video cut with Super-8 and 16mm film