Paris Photo celebrates the cinema with its Sound and Vision Program on the set of Paramount Pictures Studios. Photography and video have a tense relationship, and this program confirms the fruitfulness of interactions between the two disciplines. By adding a series of conversations with photographers like Taryn Simon, Leigh Ledare, Jeff Wall and Jean-Luc Moulene to the 12 films on the program, the curators Douglas Fogle and Kevin Moore treats transdisciplinarity as a given.
The films, most of which are no longer than 10 minutes, are played in loop and thematically paired: causes, interprises, stories, fictions, love, , others. The progression is interesting with the stories placed between the worlds of business and feelings. The explosive mixture affirms the program’s diversity: Martha Colburn’s 1996 film I’m Gonna is presented in conversation with Len Lye’s 1937 film Trade Tattoo.
This screening program combines disciplines by combining archives. In Sequoia (2013), Slater Bradley combines his photographs to those of Chris Marker’s. Report (1963-67) is a collection of found footage and radio broadcasts of the Kennedy assassination. Peter Roehr, in Film-Montagen 1-3 (1965), makes use of television commercials.
Car Wash Incident (2013) by Jack and Leigh Ruby is directly inspired by a photograph taken in 1975 at a New Jersey car wash. The photograph had been staged to be used as phony proof in an insurance scam. Filmed in 35mm, The Car Wash Incident reconstructs the incident—not the accident—in questioning proof, reality and fiction in representation. In 2010, Le Centre de la Photographie in Geneva held an exhibition entitled The Revenge of the Photographic Archive. Now Paris Photo Los Angeles responds with The Revenge of the Archives.
Program:
• CAUSES:
LEN LYE, Trade Tattoo, 1937 (5:24 min.)
MARTHA COBURN, I’m Gonna, 1996 (3 min.)
• ENTERPRISES:
JACK + LEIGH RUBY, Car Wash Incident, 2013 (25 min.)
PETER ROEHR, Film-Montagen 1-3, 1965 (22:53 min.)
• FICTIONS:
NICOLAS PROVOST, Stardust, 2010 (20 min.)
BRUCE CONNER, Report, 1963-67 (13 min.)
• LOVES:
SLATER BRADLEY, Sequoia, 2013 (2:27 min.)
WILHELM SASNAL, Mojave, 2006 (6:30 min.)
• OTHERS:
JULIAN ROSEFELDT, Lonely Planet, 2006 (16:18 min.)
ROSALIND NASHASHIBI, This Quality, 2010 (4:28 min.)
• PERFORMANCES:
RAINER GANAHL, El Mundo – A Classical Music Concert, 2013 (55 min.)
MOYRA DAVEY, Les Goddesses, 2011 (61 min.)
Links
http://www.parisphoto.com/losangeles/program/2014/sound-and-vision-the-screenings
http://vimeo.com/61964261
