The Inevitably Explosive Plastic Material. Text

If all cinema is involved in the use of ghost or ghosting these things and acts move by a series of complex relationships. A film maker has a relationship to a subject that is filmed, then creates a new relationship by setting it next to another. Finally, a personal relationship is constructed with several others in the duration of a film. This then is projected over the head of an audience onto a white screen with light. The light is then reflected into the eyes of an audience where all these relationships explode into millions of new ones. Memory, time, emotion forms new meaning in every viewer.

Cinema is the movement of these things through a collective body and sound is the movement of vibration through space. Today at 6:00 p.m. in the Hamburger Bahnhof and then later in The Arsenal at 10:30 there will be an opportunity to experience this movement of sound and image relationships in an intensified, concentrated and challenging form.

Barbara Hammer, who appears to be as genuine and friendly as inspired and talented gives performance first in the Hamburger Banhof with the Presentation of Available Space and Bent Time, both works that challenge the constraints of the frame itself in a burst of joyful dislocation.

Later in the evening at THe Arsenal, Wilhelm Hein presents a material film accompanied by live music. I saw a test screening a while ago and can say it is fucking beautiful. 35mm cinemascope, intense washes of color, scratches and general mayhem. Add live music to this lovely and jarring experience of the visual and you will have the material of the film translating to a physical human material that becomes increasingly unstable.