THE WINGED STONE

Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, Mexico, S8mm > digital, 9.5 min, 2023

Colectivo Los Ingrávidos. Founded in 2012 to “dismantle the commercial and corporate audiovisual grammar and its embedded ideology.” 300+ films since 2013; screenings at venues including Bienal de la Imagen Movimiento, Whitney Biennial (2019), FICUNAM, Media City Film Festival, Los Angeles Filmforum, The Museum of Modern Art, and International Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen. Poetry collection Solares published by Evidence Press (2018). Live in Tehuacán, Mexico.

BY HALVES

Amy Halpern, USA, 16mm, 8 min, 2010

By Halves uses appropriated footage from rejected 35mm prints that were cut in half and readjusted to be used as spacers for 16mm-to-sync-sound tracks on film, and not meant to be projected.

An appropriate appropriation, a gift, a magic act. The movement of the performer is slowed because one sees first the top and then the bottom of each frame in quick succession. Surprises result.

Amy Halpern (1953–2022). 40+ films from 1972–2022; major retrospectives at venues including Los Angeles Film Forum, Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, and (S8) Mostra de Cinema Periférico. Co-founder of New York Collective for Living Cinema (1972–82) and Los Angeles Independent Film Oasis (1975–80). Frequent collaborator on projects with filmmakers such as Pat O’Neill, Charles Burnett, Ken Jacobs, David Lebrun, and others.