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21/1/2007

MediaScope 2007

The Museum of Modern Art - MoMA, New York

Dedicated to experimentation with cinematic form and content, MediaScope presents emerging and recognized artists who discuss their work with the audience. The program explores filmmaking and videomaking, as well as Web-based, installation, and digital art practices.

Organized by Sally Berger, Assistant Curator; Jytte Jensen, Curator; Laurence Kardish, Senior Curator; and Joshua Siegel, Assistant Curator, Department of Film; and Barbara London, Associate Curator, Department of Media. Special thanks to Jeremy Marusek, Lockhart Studio; and the Gladstone Gallery for An Evening with Sharon Lockhart. MediaScope is supported by Jennifer McSweeney.

An Evening with Sharon Lockhart
Lockhart, a visual and film artist who lives in Los Angeles, often employs long, static takes of quotidian activities, bringing everyday motions into sharper focus in such films as NO (2003) and Goshogaoka (1997). In this program, Lockhart presents and discusses her fifth and latest film. Pine Flat (2005), set in the foothills of California's Sierra Nevada Mountains, is a penetrating portrait of rural American childhood over the four seasons. The film is composed of two parts, each divided into six ten-minute sections. The two parts are joined by a ten-minute intermission with a musical recording by one of the children in the film. The first half consists of adolescents engaged in solitary activities, such as reading a book, sleeping, or hunting. The second half consists of adolescent interactions-swimming in a creek, playing on a swing, or horsing around. The intimate scenes and engagements among the young people, slowly revealed over time, are alternately low-key, amusing, and haunting. Pine Flat evolves like the childhood experience, a study of vulnerability and becoming, a revelation of small and transcendent moments. Program 150 min.
Monday, January 22, 7:00. T2

An Evening with Naoyuki Tsuji
Born in Japan in 1972, Naoyuki Tsuji studied art in Tokyo. In 1992 the artist made his first animated film based on the idea of the afterimage left when a charcoal, oil, and pastel drawing is not only erased but drawn over. The erased image never completely disappears, but provides a background for the new drawing. Tsuji draws an image, photographs it, erases some of it, draws over the erasure, and photographs the new image. Movement and metamorphosis are simply, starkly, and gracefully conveyed. The program includes screenings of Wake Up; For Almost Forgotten Stories; Feathers Gazing into the Darkness; and a selection of new work. Courtesy Tidepoint Pictures and Facets Multimedia. Program approx. 60 min.
Monday, February 5, 8:15. T2

An Evening with Takuji Kogo

Takuji Kogo (Japanese, b. 1965), founder of “candy factory," an alternative Yokohama gallery that operated from 1998 to 2000, exploits the Internet to explore the meanings of globalization, especially through sites left deserted when the economy of multinational companies fails. He playfully interlaces photography, animation, and sampled music, and he invites the participation of Web denizens. An Evening with Takuji Kogo is part of “out of the internet," an international festival featuring cultural content emerging from the Asia Pacific regions. Program approx. 90 min.
Monday, February 26, 8:00. T2

Image: Sharon Lockhart, Untitled, 1996

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New York, NY 10019-5497

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