Tuesday, May 6, 2008

ARTHUR LIPSETT: ABOUT TIME

21-87 (1964)

Fluxes (1968)

THE DOUBLE NEGATIVE COLLECTIVE
PRESENTS
ARTHUR LIPSETT: ABOUT TIME, A FILM RETROSPECTIVE
CURATED BY BRETT KASHMERE

Double Negative Collective:
Arthur Lipsett: About Time, A Film Retrospective
June 4th, 5th, 6th, 12th
Cinémathèque québécoise
335, boul. De Maisonneuve Est, Metro Berri-Uqam
Price - Adult 7$ Student (13-30) 6$

The Double Negative Collective, in collaboration with the Cinémathèque québécoise, is pleased to invite curator Brett Kashmere to present a film retrospective from Canadian filmmaker Arthur Lipsett. The exhibition takes place at the Cinémathèque québécoise June 4th, 5th and 6th. Eric Gaucher’s documentary on Arthur Lipsett screens on June 12th at 7pm.

Propelled to international attention through an Oscar nomination at the age of 25, the legendary National Film Board artist Arthur Lipsett remains an anomaly within avant-garde film histories. Uneasily oscillating between a personal, artisanal tradition and the NFB’s institutional mandate “to interpret Canada for Canadians,” he was a popular experimental filmmaker whose eccentric, satirical collage films were renowned around the world. Lipsett’s films were admired by diverse film patriarchs such as Stanley Kubrick, Stan Brakhage, and George Lucas. The exhibition Arthur Lipsett: About Time presents an overdue retrospective of Lipsett’s concise but influential career, re-assembling his dazzling collage work alongside correlative Canadian media artists from the past half-century. - Brett Kashmere

About Brett Kashmere:
Brett Kashmere is a filmmaker, curator, and Visiting Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies at Oberlin College in Ohio, USA. Kashmere has organized programs for the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Strasbourg, Light Cone, Cinematheque Quebecoise, Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology, Cinema Project, Vtape, and Cinematheque Ontario.

For more information:
www.brettkashmere.com/arthur_lipsett.html
www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/04/lipsett.html
www.cinematheque.qc.ca

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