MediaScope: May
May 4 and 12, 2003
MediaScope is a new initiative devoted to
artists and their recent media projects. Focusing on experimentation
with form and content, the
program features both emerging and recognized artists, who discuss
their work with the audience. MediaScope explores filmmaking and
videomaking, as well as Web-based, installation, and digital art
practices.
Organized
by Sally Berger, Assistant Curator; Jytte Jensen, Associate Curator;
Laurence Kardish, Senior Curator; Barbara London, Associate Curator;
and Joshua Siegel, Assistant Curator, Department of Film and Media.
The first part of this two-part program comprises
a selection of
film and media work by the London-based filmmaker,
installation artist, and cultural theorist Isaac Julien,
progressing from his early 1990s film narratives to current work
in multiple DVD projection installations. Included are the films Looking
for Langston (1991), which uses documentary-like realism and dreamy enactments
to explore the story of Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes; The
Attendant (1993); Three (1999); and the multiple DVD projection
installations The Long Road to Mazatlan (1999) and
Vagabondia (2000).
Since cofounding
the pioneering black film-and-video collective, Sankofa, in London
in 1983, Julien’s artistic blending of film, installation,
and cultural theory have greatly impacted the discourses on postcolonial
and queer theory. In the second part of the program, the artist
shows and discusses his film-based work that deals with fantasy,
desire, and racial and sexual identities. The lineup includes his
new documentary Baadasssss Cinema: A Bold Look at 70s Blaxploitation
Films (2002), about the rise and fall of blaxploitation filmmaking
in Hollywood, and excerpts from a single-screen version of Paradise
Omeros (2002), an allegorical installation set in London and
the Caribbean Island of St. Lucia in the 1960s and based on the
poems of Derek Walcott, first exhibited at Documenta II, 2002.
. 1991. Great Britain. 43 min. .
1993.
Great Britain. 8 min. . 1999. Great Britain. 16 min. . 1999. Great Britain/USA. 20 min. .
2000. Great Britain. 7 min.
Program approx. 90 min.
. 2002. Great Britain/USA. 48 min.
. 2002. Great Britain. Excerpts of single-screen version of two-screen installation. Approx. 10 min.
Artist present. Program approx. 110 min.
Paul Pfeiffer presents and discusses recent work, including Long
Count (2001)—his pocket-size video triptych
with looped, ghostly images of Muhammad Ali’s
legendary bouts in the United States, the Philippines, and
former Zaire; Poltergeist (2000); Corner Piece and Live
Evil (both
2002); and Caryatid and Morning After the
Deluge (both
2003). Artist present. Program approx. 90 min.
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