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In conjunction with the First Look 2022 premiere of his new short film CONFIGURATIONS at the Museum of the Moving Image, Spectacle is honored to host avant-garde filmmaker James Edmonds for a selection of works shot on 8-and-16mm film, followed by a discussion with writer Phil Coldiron. The program includes:
FRAGMENTS/STRUCTURES
2007/2015. Super-8. 6 min.
INSIDE/OUTSIDE
2008/2015. Super-8. 7 min.
MOVEMENT AND STILLNESS
2014/2015. Super-8. 11 min.
OVERLAND
2016. Super-8. 22 min.
A RETURN
2018. 16mm. 6 min.
SEASONS/PATTERNS
2020. Super-8. 10 min.
“My films embody my general approach to image making as accumulated fragments of material, both in the physical sense and as memoristic impressions with the potential to transform. They are made in close connection to my personal circumstances and unfold along the same lines as everyday life, its doubts and contradictions as much as it’s moments of quiet beauty. Although there are definite repetitions (perhaps even re-enactments), each film conveys its own formal character, born of the subjective dynamic of its shooting. Seen chronologically, these films unfold like an abstract diary with a highly formalistic energy, albeit loose and lyrical, coming more from the heart than from the head. I hope that people can respond to something in them on that level.” – James Edmonds
JAMES EDMONDS works primarily with super8 and 16mm film as well as painting and music. His practice is driven by a personal poetics in which the act of recording the everyday becomes both a materialist, formal structure and a highly subjective experiential reality in itself – a complex synthesis of presence and memory. In his films, the work begins in the camera, the formation of the shots becoming intrinsically part of the meaning, the film material its own entity. His films have been shown at various festivals and venues including TIFF Wavelengths, NYFF Projections (now Currents), Ann Arbor Film Festival, Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, MOMI New York, MIFF Melbourne, Curtas Vila do Conde, Redcat California, EXiS Seoul and L’ âge d’Or Brussels. Solo presentations have occurred at (S8) A Coruña, EXFF Frankfurt, Cinema Parenthèse Brussels, Nocturnal Reflections Milan and Ausland Berlin. He occasionally writes texts on film, organizes screenings and from 2015-2018 ran a monthly film series in Berlin called Light Movement.
