Friday March 13, 7.30pm
Untitled Film
by Gregory Smulewicz-Zucker
admission $6 – Free for Members
Images courtesy of Gregory Smulewicz-Zucker © 2014
Microscope presents the return of Gregory Smulewicz-Zucker to the gallery this time for the premiere of his new and longest 16mm film to date. As in his previous shorter works, Smulewicz-Zucker’s “Untitled”, completed in late 2014, approaches the medium of film viewing light “as the fundamental ingredient in cinema”. Smulewicz-Zucker works exclusively with black & white 16mm film, shooting moments of everyday life, that under his lens transform the familiar – both natural and construction – into an alternative and yet equally real world of light and shadow, reflection and refraction.
“[In Untitled] I explore a progression from everyday visual perception to a more opaque engagement with the world. This culminates – as many of my films have in the past – with an ecstatic experience of light … In previous films, I have tended to conclude by allowing the light to flood the screen. Here, I try to maintain an awareness that the light is being viewed through some medium or other. I hope this lends itself to the feeling of a stronger human presence within the film.” -GS
Untitled
by Gregory Smulewicz-Zucker
16mm, b&w, silent, 2014, 60 minutes
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Gregory Smulewicz-Zucker is a writer and filmmaker living in New York. He is currently the Managing Editor of Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture (www.logosjournal.com). His films have been shown at Anthology Film Archives, Spectacle Theater, and Microscope Gallery. His writings on film have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail. He is the editor of a new edition of Jonas Mekas’ Movie Journal for Columbia University Press.
Microscope gratefully acknowledges the Robert D. Bielecki Foundation as the Official Sponsor of our Event Series
