Wedding Before Me (1976) by Patrick Jenkins
Saturday, October 13, 1984, 8:00 pm
Personal Visions: New Super-8mm Films
A program of new or neglected films by Willie Varela
Cipher, 10 min., by the late Greg Sharits
Window, 1976, by Stan Brakhage
Wedding Before Me, 1976, by Patrick Jenkins: “…the original footage was shot by my Uncle John before I was born. …(it) seemed to contain a lot of the repressed feelings of interpersonal tensions that family structures and ritual do so much to contain and control.” —P.J.
Transducer Series #3, 6, 10, 11, & 12, 1984, by Richard Lerman: “I have been making objects into functional microphones, then filming and recording them in super-8 single-system. Mics here include money, foil, brass and copper window screens, and a blue ribbon.”—R.L.
Three Films by Melanie Berry: Net With Water, 1983; Bearings, 1983, “Edited to echo the movement of the child from consciousness to self-consciousness…”; and (untitled)“, 1984, “Repetition of form, color and movement, shifting to allow movements to be carried from shot to shot and break within an image.”–M.B.