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Esperanza Collado / Zero Degree

October 18, 2007 — October 20, 2007

Zero Degree: The New Image of Thought is a three-night event consisting of a film projection series and a presentation of Spectrum fanzine 4th issue, both focused on the question of the interval - as radical difference, irrational cut, and as a last resort, as a means toward a more active role for the spectator - in avant-garde cinema. Zero Degree is curated by Esperanza Collado.

If cinema is about neuro-physiological vibrations, the image must produce a collision, a nervous wave in order to make thought emerge. The absence of images (the sole presence of a black or white screen) has a decisive importance in contemporary cinema, positing a dialectical relationship between image and its absence.

Film Screenings are listed below.

Irrational Interval / 18th October

• William S. Burroughs, Cut-Ups Films (UK)
• Peter Kubelka, Schwechater (Austria)
• Peter Kubelka, Arnulf Rainer (Austria)
• Paul Sharits, Epileptic Seizure Comparison, (EEUU)
• Paul Sharits, T,O,U,C, H, I, N, G, (USA)
• Paul Sharits, N:O:T:H:I:N:G:, (USA)

Dialectic Interval / 19th October

• David Lynch Lumiere: Premonitions Following an Evil Deed (USA)
• Stan Brakhage, Riddle of Lumen, (USA)
• Stan Brakhage, Boulder Blues and Pearls and…, (USA)
• Dziga Vertov, The Man with the Movie Camera (Russia)

MA Intervals / 20th October

• Takahiko iimura, MA: Space/Time in the Garden of Ryoan-Ji (Japan)
• Takahiko iimura, MA: The Stones Have Moved (Japan)
• Takahiko iimura, MA: (Intervals) (Japan)

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