Experimental Eye is an on-going series featuring
in-person presentations by internationally acclaimed experimental film and
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On April 8, we welcome French filmmaker and film programmer Marie Losier,
who specializes in unique short 16mm film portraits of artists she knows,
such as underground filmmakers Mike & George Kuchar, theatre innovator
Richard Foreman and Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin; she recently finished
a film about video artist and musician/composer Tony Conrad. She’s
also made the playful piece, Eat My Makeup!,
featuring Ithaca’s own Jason Livingston, in a very pretty pink dress.
Then on April 24, we welcome German filmmaker Karl Kels. Educated at the
arts academy in Frankfurt, Germany, Kels is interested in the unstaged world,
in the 'real' if you like, yet studies the reality he finds in a way which
questions both its authenticity and the fictional character of our perception
of that same reality. Four short films will be shown: Rhinoceroses
(1987, 16mm), Starlings (1991, 16mm), Hippopotamuses
(1993, 35mm), and Sidewalk (2008, 35mm). Both visits are
cosponsored with the Cornell Council for the Arts.
late spring 2008 series
Image: Eat My Makeup (directed by Marie Losier)