Wednesday, May 6, 2009 @ 7:30 PM
Bruce Conner: In Memoriam
Presented by PDX Fest, Cinema Project and The Northwest Film Center
Michelle Silva, representative of the Conner Family Trust, in attendance
California artist and filmmaker Bruce Conner (1933-2008) was the modern master of found footage filmmaking. During his 40-year career—first as a pioneer of assemblage art and then as a heralded moving-image maker—he created a unique body of work that examined American society with wit and clarity of vision. His carefully edited montage films, informed by his sculptural practice, draw upon sources as varied as educational films, newsreel footage and television commercials, finding new power and associations in discarded or forgotten images. Please join us in celebrating his life and work with this very special program of 16mm films from throughout his career. Our very special thanks to Jean Conner and Michelle Silva for making these personal prints available.
Program II*
Mongoloid
Bruce Conner
1978, 16mm, b&w/so, 3.5m
American is Waiting
Bruce Conner
1982, 16mm, b&w/so, 3.5m
Crossroads
Bruce Conner
1976, 16mm, b&w/so, 36m
Take the 5:10 to Dreamland
Bruce Conner
1977, 16mm, sepia/so, 5.5m
Valse Triste
Bruce Conner
1979, 16mm, b&w/so, 5m
Looking for Mushrooms (long version)
Bruce Conner
1996, 16mm, color/so, 14.5m
Eastern Morning
Bruce Conner
2008, DVD, color/so. 10m
*Program I in this two part retrospective presented by PDX Fest, Cinema Project and NWFC is screening at 7PM on May 5th at the Northwest Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium.
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For more information about The Northwest Film Center, visit www.nwfilm.org
