Artists Space

In The Poem About Love You Don't Write The Word Love
Film Series at Anthology Film Archives
Program 5

Screening
February 5, 2007, 7:30pm

Program 5 of the film series accompanying the exhibition In The Poem About Love You Don't Write The Word Love, held at Anthology Film Archives.

Close-up image of the faces of a man and a woman, both of their figures cut off by the frame. The woman stands slightly in front of the man, who stands directly behind her shoulder. She wears lipstick, jewelry, and has short hair, while the man is older and wears a suit with a stiff collar. Neither figure looks at each other, gazing elsewhere.
[Close-up image of the faces of a man and a woman, both of their figures cut off by the frame. The woman stands slightly in front of the man, who stands directly behind her shoulder. She wears lipstick, jewelry, and has short hair, while the man is older and wears a suit with a stiff collar. Neither figure looks at each other, gazing elsewhere.]

David Lamelas, The Invention of Dr. Morel (2000)
16mm film, colour, sound; 23 minutes. Courtesy of artist and LUX, London.
Inspired by Adolfo Bioy Casares’ celebrated novel The Invention of Morel, Lamelas formally takes up a narrative film tradition related to the nouveau roman movement to retell the tale of a doctor who invented a machine to duplicate Faustina (the woman he loved), in virtual reality.

Phillip Lai, His Divine Grace (2000)
DVD, color, sound; 25 minutes. Courtesy of the artist.
Lai's diverse practice negotiates aspects of individuation in relation to the social. This film references esoteric devotional videos and explores this format to look at its subject (the artist's father) and to reflect on our means of interpretation. As a quasi-documentary it purposefully deals with distinctly abstract matter from sensory to philosophical and fluctuates between the particular and the general.

Bernadette Corporation, Get Rid of Yourself (2002)
DVD, colour and black-and-white, sound; 60 minutes. Courtesy of the artists and Electronic Arts Intermix, New York.
Bernadette Corporation is a mock corporate entity founded in 1994 with the premise that it was “the perfect alibi for not having to fix an identity.” Get Rid of Yourself, staring Chloë Sevigny and artist Stephan Dillemuth, explores the extreme end of protest culture as it reconstructs the events surrounding the G8 summit in Genoa in July 2001 and the death of Carlo Giuliani. It’s a film that refuses political identity, seeking to explore the "potential of community," or simply to relish, in the words of the artists, “the vertigo or joy of its own dispersal in lived time and space.”