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The Architects of Time and Space – director Pip Chodorov’s master workshop

Filmmakers are architects of time and space: the plasticity of the celluloid echoes the elastic nature of reality. The camera allows one to shrink or expand time, layer time on top of itself, run events forwards or backwards, in slow motion or fast motion, to unify a collage of diverse elements into one fluid motion, or inversely, to chop up a single action into a kaleidoscope of fragmented bits, 24 times a second.

Film was the first art form that allowed artists to harness time and manipulate it, as a sculptor moulds clay. This program will feature a few visionary approaches to working with time that have been developed by experimental artists over the last few decades. The workshop will discuss the historical, technical, artistic and metaphysical aspects of bending time in this way. 

Films to be discussed: 

A Study in Choreography for the Camera, Maya Deren, 1944, 3 min., silent
Fluxfilm #9: Eyeblink, Yoko Ono, 1966, 1 min., silent
Hand Held Day, Gary Beydler, 1974, 6 min., silent
Analogies, Peter Rose, 1977, 14 min.
Vestibule, Ken Kobland, 1978, 24 min.
Like a Passing Train 2, Kohei Ando, 1979, 7 min.
Prelude, Michael Snow, 2000, 4 min. (35mm)
Pièce touchée, Martin Arnold, 1989, 15 min.

Date and venue: 28 September 1.00 pm „Skalvija“ cinema centre (A. Goštauto str. 2/15).

Organiser „Skalvija“ cinema centre

Pip Chodorov

Director, cameraman and scriptwriter Pip Chodorov was born in New York in 1965. He has been involved in filmmaking and music composition since 1972. He studied cognitive sciences at the University of Rochester in New York and film semiotics at the University of Paris. He previously worked in film distribution companies Orion Classics, UGC, and Light Cone; since 1994 he has worked at his own studio Re:Voir Video in Paris. Pip Chodorov established The Film Gallery, the first art gallery devoted exclusively to experimental cinema. He is one of the founders of L‘Abominable in Paris, a do-it-yourself film laboratory, and also the moderator of the internet-based forum on experimental cinema.