VISITING FILM & VIDEO ARTISTS SERIES AT BU

Lewis Klahr (April 4th) – Lewis Klahr has been making films since 1977. He is known for his uniquely idiosyncratic films, which use found images and sound to explore the intersection of memory and history. Screened at this presentation will be Klahr’s best-known film, “Sixty Six,” a feature-length collage film completed in 2016. “Elliptical tales of sunshine noir and classical Greek mythology are inhabited by comic book super heroes and characters from Portuguese foto romans who wander through midcentury modernist Los Angeles architectural photographs and landscapes from period magazines,” MoMA Film Curator Jason Siegel describes the work. Klahr’s films have screened extensively in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Lewis Klahr lives in Los Angeles and teaches in the Theater School of the California Institute of the Arts. Lewis Klahr’s work is represented by the Anthony Reynolds Gallery in London, UK.

John Price (April 24th) – John Price is a Canadian artist living in Toronto, and he works primarily as a documentary cinematographer and teacher part-time at Humber College in Toronto. He has produced experimental documentaries, dance, and diary films since 1986. His love of analog photography led naturally to extensive alchemical experimentation with a wide range of motion picture film emulsions and camera formats. Engagement with these modes of creation connected with the way an image’s texture communicates subtext, and is a key feature of his work and the work he shoots for others. Aside from his independent experimental work, he works as a cinematographer and recently won a Canadian Screen Award for Best Cinematography in a Feature Documentary for his work on I am the Blues.

Events in this series take place at 7:30pm in Lecture Hall 6 at the Binghamton University campus. Admission is free. For more information visit binghamton.edu/cinema/visitingartists.