A Door will Open and You will Walk Through it - 16mm Films for One and Two Projectors by Simon Liu & Josh Lewis
Date: 23rd September, 2016 (Friday)
Time: 7:30pm - 10:00pm [No intermission, with post-screening talk]
Venue: Floating Projects [Room D, 8/F,Kwai Bo Industrial Building,No.40 Wong Chuk Hang Road, Wong Chuk Hang]
Ticket at the door: HK$ 50 (with one drink)
A Door will Open and You will Walk Through it
16mm Films for One and Two Projectors by Simon Liu & Josh Lewis
Overlapping in their affinity for experimental processing and printing techniques, Josh Lewis and Simon Liu interweave a selection of their 16mm films made by hand at Negativland Motion Picture Lab, an artist-run film lab in New York City. With Lewis working predominantly in direct chemical manipulation of exposed film surfaces, and Liu utilizing a roaming impressionistic camera paired with unorthodox printing methods, the program establishes the centrality of the darkroom both as an epistemic concept and as a practical mode of production. Each film emerges out of a continual and rapid cycle of exposing, processing, projecting, repeat. As such, the films here are rarely the culmination of a process, but rather worthy points extracted from ongoing lines of investigation.
Run time: Approx. 85 min.
Artist Bios
JOSH LEWIS is an artist and experimental filmmaker working at a fluid intersection between abstraction, documentary, and narrative forms. Coming from a background working in photochemical film processing labs, Lewis’s handmade films explore the boundaries of manual knowledge, bodily struggle, and the persisting enigma of material potential. Lewis has shown work at Anthology Film Archives, Microscope Gallery, Eyebeam, Uniondocs, The Filmmaker's Co-op NY, and at festivals such as The International Film Festival Rotterdam, Chicago Underground Film Festival, New Orleans Film Festival, Antimatter, Onion City and EDOC: Encuentros del otro cine festival internacional de cine documental. He is a 2015 recipient of a NYFA Film/Video Fellowship. Josh works as a lab technician and is the founder of the artist-run film lab Negativland MPL.
SIMON LIU lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Born in Hong Kong and raised in both Hong Kong and Stoke-On-Trent, England, he moved to New York in 2006 and received a degree in Film Production from New York University. His work has been exhibited and distributed at festivals and institutions internationally including the International Film Festival Rotterdam, CROSSROADS, EXiS, Microscope Gallery, Mono No Aware IX, WNDX, FilMadrid, Paris Festival of Different & Experimental Cinemas, the British Film Institute and the Rio De Janeiro Film Festival.
