Ed Halter
Ericka Beckman
May 2013
Curated by Fabrice Stroun In her Super 8 sound films of the 1970s and ’80s, American artist Ericka Beckman created sharp-edged concatenations of lo-fi visual effects, dance-like performances, and No Wave audio compositions, always pointing… READ ON
PREVIEWS
“Portrait of Michel Auder”
January 2013
“Michel Auder edits his intimate video diaries out of more than five thousand hours of footage shot since the late 1960s.”… READ ON
PREVIEWS
CLOSE-UP: HELL IS FOR CHILDREN
Ed Halter on Leslie Thornton’s Peggy and Fred in Hell
September 2012
TWO AMERICAN CHILDREN, a girl and a boy, play inside a house crammed with the technological clutter of the twentieth century. Tangles of electric cable form a synthetic underbrush, while cathode-ray monitors perch here and there, transmitting… READ ON
IN PRINT September 2012 [TOC]
George Kuchar
PASSAGES
February 2012
LAST SUMMER, when it became clear that cancer would inevitably take his life, George Kuchar entered a hospice in San Francisco. He brought his video equipment with him, shooting and editing footage inside what would serve as his final residence.… READ ON
IN PRINT February 2012 [TOC]
Ed Halter
Film: Best of 2011
December 2011
1 Inkblot films (Luther Price) Produced by scraping the emulsion from old footage, recutting it, and coloring it with inks and Sharpies, Price’s 16-mm and Super 8 inkblot films—a selection of which he screened in person in Milwaukee and … READ ON
IN PRINT December 2011 [TOC]
The Practice of Everyday Life
Ed Halter on Kevin Jerome Everson
April 2011
KEVIN JEROME EVERSON’S two-minute film Something Else (2007) begins with a bit of worn color 16 mm—evidently shot for a local television-news station, perhaps sometime around 1970—depicting an interview with Miss Black Roanoke, Virginia,… READ ON
FILM
Harun Farocki
Harun Farocki discusses his latest films
February 2011
Through March 3, the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow is presenting an exhibition devoted to the work of filmmaker Harun Farocki. The show includes workshops, seminars, screenings, discussions, and three of Farocki’s two-channel … READ ON
500 WORDS
“Radical Light”
FILM
November 2010
In 1968, the New York–based critic P. Adams Sitney—already a preeminent advocate for American avant-garde cinema but not yet the author of the canonical study Visionary Film—published a five-column article in the Village Voice titled … READ ON
IN PRINT November 2010 [TOC]
Splash of Red
Ed Halter on Segundo de Chomón
October 2010
SPANISH FILMMAKER SEGUNDO DE CHOMÓN began working in the medium less than half a decade after its invention, first as a renowned colorist in the days of labor-intensive frame-by-frame tinting, then as a pioneering special-effects designer.… READ ON
FILM
Spin Cycle
Ed Halter on Matthew Barney’s “Cremaster” cycle
May 2010
THOUGH HE COMPLETED his five-film “Cremaster” cycle less than a decade ago, then topped off the whole project in 2003 with a museum-spanning exhibition of sculptures and installations at the Guggenheim, Matthew Barney has quickly become… READ ON