presented in association with Canyon Cinema Foundation and the Cinema Arts Department at The Exploratorium

Admission: $10 general /$5 members
Advanced tickets available here.
Note: No museum access. Enter through the historic Bulkhead.

Join Vancouver-based media artist Alex MacKenzie for a presentation of Apparitions (2016), an expanded cinema work exploring the transitional space between image and abstraction, and nature and culture.

For tonight's performance, two 16mm projectors screen hand-processed color and black-and-white film while the artist employs color gels, masking, lens interference, and projector movement to play with perspective, patterning, binocular disparity, and the film surface itself. Inspired by early stereo imaging and "the clash and collusion of socioeconomic forces," Apparitions seeks to dismantle cinematic codes while foregrounding both projector and light as sculpture: its conscious corruption of and interference with the apparatus evokes the unexpected, reshaping representation into the realm of material and space.

Presented in conjunction with Canyon Cinema 50, this event is part of a yearlong series of programming in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Canyon Cinema's incorporation.

"MacKenzie is a key player in the revival of expanded cinema forms...his projects stretch the possibilities of the analogue form, manipulating images to beyond our received expectations."
-Chris Kennedy, Early Monthly Film Segments

Alex MacKenzie is a Vancouver-based media artist working primarily with 16mm analog film equipment and hand-processed imagery. His light projection installations, projector performances, and other works have screened at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, the EXiS Experimental Film Festival in Seoul, Lightcone in Paris, Kino Arsenal in Berlin, and many other festivals and art spaces worldwide. The founder and curator of the Edison Electric Gallery of Moving Images, the Blinding Light!! Cinema, and the Vancouver Underground Film Festival, MacKenzie was also an artist in residence at Atelier MTK in Grenobles France, the Struts Gallery/Faucet Media in New Brunswick, Cineworks' Analog Film Annex in Vancouver, and Daimon in Gatineau. He is a founding member of the Iris Film Collective in Vancouver.

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