Open Screen: Stop & Go 3-D
Curator and Filmmaker Sarah Klein in Attendance
Friday, September 13, 7:30PM
Location: Aurora Picture Show, 2442 Bartlett
Aurora Members Free, Non-members $10 (door sales only after 4PM)
Aurora Picture Show features a screening of experimental animated shorts in STOP & GO 3-D as part of the Open Screen series. In this program, established filmmakers and visual artists unveil their most recent experiments in stop-motion animation. Curated by Sarah Klein, a San Francisco artist and curator, this screening was proposed to Aurora as part of the Open Screen series. Open Screen Nights allow for the public to make programming suggestions that are in line with the mission of Aurora Picture Show.
STOP & GO 3-D is a collection of short videos that play dramatically with our visual senses as images recede and jump out of the screen. By making use of anaglyphic techniques, strobe effects, composite layering, overlapping cross-fades, afterimages and optical imagery, each artist pushes the boundary of what the multi-dimensional can be. Some of the pieces require red/cyan glasses to fully appreciate the work while others are best viewed in plain sight or by softening one's gaze. As a whole the show offers you much more then what meets the eye.
The animations in this program were chosen from a world-wide open call for submissions and by invitation. Please note that this show features flickering lights and strobe effects that may cause headaches, nausea, seizures, and other unpleasant effects in some people. Saint Arnold Brewery will provide libations to give a pleasant effect.
Sarah Klein is a San Francisco Bay Area artist, curator and educator. Her art practice includes live action and stop-motion animation. She has screened her work widely including General Public in Berlin, The Glasshouse in Tel Aviv, Institute of Contemporary Art in San Jose and the Mill Valley Film Festival. In 2008 she began the touring curatorial project Stop & Go that features stop-motion works by visual artists and filmmakers. Currently she is looking for work for the fourth installment of the show called Stop & Go: Made From Scratch.
Stop & Go is a member of Intersection for the Arts Incubator Program as "Sarah Klein Projects." Seed funding was provided by the Southern Exposure Alternative Exposure grant.
The following works are included in this program:
RAD PLAID by Jodie Mack
A series of chromatic intersections with fabric.
PANDORA'S BLOCK by Abbey Luck & Sean Donnelly
The creation and destruction of a square-based universe.
MOVING STILL by Santiago Caicedo de Roux
The rhythm of a daily commute jumps tracks.
HAM BONE WITH BIRDS by Joey Fauerso
Representation turns into abstraction via a series of mirrored images.
AQUARELLE by Mark de Weijer
Color in motion, carried by water.
WITHOUT YOU by Tal Rosner
A visual exploration of London's industrial suburbia.
THE MUSEUM OF TOUCH AND FEEL by Jeanne Stern
Please form a queue in the lobby. The tour will start soon.
EGGS by Molly Schwartz
16 dozen eggs make an optical omelet.
ANKLE INJURIES by Wade Shotter & Yukfoo
Rolling dice becomes an Olympic sport.
UNDER INFLUENCE by Iemke van Dijk
A play in which order and chaos determine the visual outcome.
RADISH FESTIVAL by Kate Nartker
Home movies are woven into fabric stills and then animated.
NEON MUD BUCKET by David Daniels
Plasticine clay is sculpted and sliced into strata-cut time blocks.
MEET ME IN BROOKLYN by José Heerkens
A poetic dialog between changing colors and moving lines.
SHAPES by Kalle Johansson & Bendik Kaltenborn
A guided mediation of curious objects.
SPEKTRALANALYSE by Sarah Klein & David Kwan
Real-time footage and hand-drawn images find tension and balance.
FROM INTUITION TO CALCULATION by Albert Roskam
Piet Mondrian meets the present day.
SCAN-TRON by Jennifer Schmidt
Answers given to a set of unknown questions posed by a series of test forms.
TAPE GENERATIONS by Johan Rijpma
The behaviors of a simple desk accessory become visible through the force of gravity.
IT'S NOT QUITE HOW I REMEMBER IT by Brian McClave, Claudia Molitor & Gavin Peacock
A video-score plays with the brain's constant effort to make sense of everything it encounters.
PITCH PERFECT PIXEL by David Kwan
An auditory approach to a raster image system. What you see is exactly what you hear. This is sister piece to BETWEEN THE LINES.
CASTRO VALLEY JUMP by Gilbert Hsiao
A found zoetrope.
BETWEEN THE LINES by Sarah Klein
A manual approach to a horizontal system.This is a sister piece to PITCH PERFECT PIXEL.
INTERSTITIAL INSTRUCTIONS
by Andrew Kleindolph, David Kwan, Sarah Klein & Mel Prest
More information about Klein’s work and projects can be found at www.sarahklein.com and www.stopandgoshow.com