Flicker Orchestrated 2: Expanded Cinema

Flicker Orchestrated 2: Expanded Cinema
Presenting works performed by Lynn Loo and Hun Ping
Saturday 12 March, 7:30pm
The Substation Dance Studio
Admission: $10 ($8 concession) available at the door  
This is an InHouse event

Expanded Cinema is an experience. It is an event, an encounter, a happening of the moving image and of sound. Multiple-screen works presented as live events in both 16mm and video projectors. Works performed by artist filmmaker Lynn Loo and visual artist Hun Ping.

For the full programme listing please see below.

END ROLLS
3x 16mm projection performance with photo-sensory mics

One raw 16mm colour film roll was partially exposed to different levels of light such as candle, stove, room light, etc. The idea partly derived from seeing the beginnings and endings of colour film, a few seconds of colour fluctuations before arriving at the real images. This roll is duplicated three times and used in the projection performance. Live sound is extracted from the light of the projectors.

AUTUMN FOG
2x 16mm silent projection performance

Captured images of the changing season in my garden. On presentation, the 16mm positive film runs through one projector while the colour negative runs through a second projector.

NEWSPRINT #2
2x 16mm projection performance with optical sound

Film made by Guy Sherwin. Choreography collaboration with Lynn Loo on 2x 16mm projection performance. This performance version animates the newspaper text by using intermittent projection, pausing and re-starting the film on its way through the projector.

In performing the work two identical prints are shown superimposed with a slight difference in image size, which varies throughout the performance. The projectionists attempt to bring the two films into synchronization with each other by alternately freezing and running the films. During these brief periods of synchronization something unexpected happens as a result of the slight misregistration of the two identical images and of their accompanying sounds. – Guy Sherwin

TANGIBILITY
Digital video projection on stretched canvas. stereo sound.

Progressive degradation of a moving image of a crushing fist.

CARTOGRAPHER MAPPING SCARSCAPES
2x digital video projection. stereo sound.

Figurative to abstract representations documented and imagined during road trips, voyagings and flights into transcendence. A pair of stop-motion animations created with digitally scanned images of hand-processed unexposed and developed 35mm color print film.

EX.TOIL
Projection diptych. 1x digital video vertical format projection and 1x 35mm color print film projection using modified slide film projector. stereo sound.

Explorations of impediments to smooth forward motion. Subversive attempts at animating and scrolling scratched colour print film images of morphing figures. Original music by Kelvin Tan, Jeremy Sharma & Justin Lim, with modifications by Hun.

About the Artists

Lynn Loo

Since 2004 her practice has moved from narrative to process and material-based works of 16mm film. Mostly hand-made or made without a camera, they are presented live with two or more 16mm film projectors.

Loo’s film works have exhibited world-wide in festivals and venues such as Filmfest Dresden, International Film Festival Rotterdam, EXiS Experimental Film and Video Festival Seoul, Evolution Leeds, Ocularis New York, Colour Out of Space Brighton and Guling Avant-Garde Festival Taipei. She currently works as a Film Archivist at the BFI National Film and Television Archive in the UK.

Toh Hun Ping

A visual artist based in Singapore, Hun Ping has a strong passion for experimental and non-mainstream cinema. Currently, he is teaching full-time at the School of the Arts Singapore, and seeks to inculcate an appreciation for experimental cinema in his students. In his spare time, he creates video and film works mostly single-handedly, merging traditional fine art techniques with new media technology. Most of these works provide an avenue for him to deal with his struggles and anxieties; these cinematic journeys likened to a flight from the absurdity and profundity of it all. Though the works are highly personal, he nevertheless makes an effort to share and exhibit them in various parts of the world. The works have so far made it to North America, France, Greece, Israel, Japan, Macau, Thailand, Vietnam and Singapore, presented in both art gallery settings and film festivals.