Andrew Noren
March 3, 2004
Andrew
Noren (born 1943, Santa Fe) has been making moving-image art for
the past forty years, and is perhaps cinema’s greatest practitioner
of light, shadow, visual texture, and velocity. His recent digital
work celebrates the primal nature of vision and the mind’s
construct of duration. MoMA’s Department of Film and Media
presents the world premiere of Free to Go (interlude) (2003)
and the penultimate work Time Being (2001).
Organized by Laurence Kardish, Senior Curator, Department of Film
and Media.
. 2003. USA. “Energy pictures!.… Mindful
kinesis./ Molecular anarchy ‘behind the scenes.’/ Invisible
light and blind shadow... irascible brats!... vigorously conjoin,
conjuring delusion of depth and duration, fiction of space in time./
Fool’s paradise of illusory ‘window’... (‘flutter
of phantoms, trick of the light’), savored and shattered and
seen for what it is” (Noren). 62 min.
. 2001. USA. “Music for light and mind/ The Veil
wears thin (who could blame it?) and ‘the sparks fly upward!’/
Kinesis is better than sleep./ Cinema isn’t materials. It’s
refined, imaginative seeing... darkness made visible. It existed
long before modern devices, since the first opening of the first
animal eyelid... scene one, take one” (Noren). 60 min.
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