To celebrate The Cinematheque’s 50th anniversary, DIM presents a quartet of projector performances by Alex MacKenzie and Lindsay McIntyre with live sound by Clare Kenny and Peter Bussigel. The evening is bookended by experimental works that take place in West Coast forests, opening with MacKenzie’s manipulations of a 1920s hand-cranked projector and closing with McIntyre’s composition across six projectors. In between, the light performance Phosphene shimmers across the screen, uniting “the cosmic with the microscopic” (Marilyn Brakhage), while Mall Emotions transforms a promotional film about French mall culture into a dreamlike space traversed by a silhouetted shopper forever seeking an exit from the labyrinth of capital. Hollow Mountain, filmed with a 35mm hand-cranked camera atop a mountain overlooking the Salish Sea, uses a variety of lens interference techniques in concert with the projector to translate the topography of the landscape into pure abstraction. In Worth More Standing, horizontal and vertical planes shift across footage of the old-growth forest at Fairy Creek on Vancouver Island and of the land defenders facing down developers encroaching on unceded Pacheedaht territory. Exploring the dynamics of tree/human relationships, McIntyre’s performance creates a high-contrast portrait of this landscape of ancient, seemingly silent giants whose fate rests in human hands. The Hollow Mountain Alex MacKenzie, 2022
“Live and Expanded” will be followed by a Q&A session with the artists.
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