MediaScope
February 9 and 23, 2004
Dedicated to experimentation with cinematic form
and content, MediaScope presents emerging and recognized
artists who discuss their work with the audience. The program explores
filmmaking and videomaking, as well as Web-based, installation,
and digital art practices.
Organized by Sally Berger, Assistant Curator;
Jytte Jensen, Curator; Laurence Kardish, Senior Curator; Barbara
London, Associate Curator; and Joshua Siegel, Assistant Curator,
Department of Film and Media.
A media artist since he abandoned oil painting in 1989, Wang Jianwei
discusses Spider (2004), Ceremony (2003) and Ping
Feng (2001), as well as recent video and multi-media theater
works. Haunted by questions of power and truth, he explores the
networks of corporate culture, and the perils of celebrity as an
ancient phenomenon. Wang Jianwei's other videos are part of China
Now, MoMA's exhibition at The Gramercy Theatre,
February 12–16. Program approx. 90 min.
Providence-based artist Ben Russell presents two works: his ethnographic
film Daumë (2000) and The Twenty-One Lives of
William H. Bonney (2004, premiere) which, according to the
filmmaker, is “the figure of Billy the Kid, a Notorious and
Legendary Outlaw, reproduced entirely through re-enactments of the
Violent and Sudden Deaths of the Twenty-One Men He (May Have) Killed.”
Russell considers himself (and the exhibition curators concur) equal
parts Image-Maker, Inventor, and Escape Artist, and his films are
of a likewise Varied and Curious Sort. Program approx. 90 min.
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