Alchemical Poet Carl Brown’s neige noire, Canadian premiere (In
Person)
Friday, December 5, 8 pm, @ Cinecycle, 129 Spadina Ave. (down
the lane)
Carl Brown transmutes the dross of silver halide
suspended in gelatin into visual poetry. Farming crystals
on celluloid in his darkroom lab for over twenty years, he
is Canada’s master of hand-processed film. His alchemical
process leaves behind the traces of the involuntary becoming
of photo-chemicals; mineral and vegetable affix themselves
to a piece of celluloid, like jewels in a clear plastic setting.
An unabashed abstractionist, Brown stacks up to eight images
on one piece of film so that the projector’s light refracts
through flowering prisms before sliding down the screen in
multicoloured patterns.
neige noire is Carl Brown’s most
luminescent work to date. Pure clear colour defines the gently
undulating images that flow from the foreground to the background
and back again expressing rising fear and forgotten childhood
trauma that the conscious mind must set right. neige noire
is 64 minutes of two separate film reels projected side by
side. In tandem, longtime collaborator John Kamevaar (Kaiser
Nietsche and CCMC) mixes two tracks of alternating lyrical
jazz ballads and heavy house beats.
Following neige noire will be the
premiere of Carl Brown and French experimentalist Rose Lowder’s
most recent collaboration L'Invitation au Voyage
(33 min., 2003).
The 2002/2003 Board of Directors/ Programming Collectiveis Roberto Ariganello, Elena Bird, Daniel Cockburn, Arthur
Conway, Linda Feesey, Graham Hollings, Carolyn Kane, Chris Kennedy, Sunny
Kerr, Jinhan Ko, and Louise Liliefeldt. Tom Taylor is the Program Coordinator
Pleasure Domeis a year-round film and video exhibition group dedicated to the presentation of experimental film and video. Pleasure Dome acknowledges the support of our members, the Canada Council for the Arts - Media Arts Office, the Ontario Arts Council, the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council, the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre, Charles Street Video, Media City Festival, Trinity Square Video and V tape.
Pleasure Dome follows a policy of non-compliance with any
government (or other) censoring or prior-approval laws or bodies.
