1 – 12 October 2014

Dominique Dubosc

Palestine Remembered

2004, 37’34”

The season of films presented in collaboration with Animate Projects closes with Dominique Dubosc’s Palestine Remembered.  The film was included in Animate Projects exhibition in 2009 Drawn from Life (guest curated by writer and curator Stoffel Debuysere). The exhibition presented artists’ films that explore drawing, mapping and Palestine, including the work of artists Till Roeskens, Dominique Dubosc, and Sarah Wood (the Carroll / Fletcher onscreen season opened with Sarah’s film – For Cultural Purposes Only). An essay by Stoffel Debuysere accompanied the exhibition.

SYNOPSIS

In July 2002, the designer Maja Daniel was invited to Palestine by the Consulate of France in Jerusalem and the Palestinian Ministry of Culture, to revive a project drawing schools in Ramallah and Gaza. Dominique Dubosc decided to accompany him. Dominique’s project was not to account the ‘Maja mission’ (from the beginning doomed to failure because of the curfew imposed on major cities in the West Bank, and Israeli incursions ravaging Gaza), but to create a movie showing Dominique and Maja’s different perspectives. Throughout the spring of 2003, one day a week, Maja agreed to improvise under the eye of the camera, drawing images that evoke both Palestine and a wider world, filled with his usual bestiary. Dominique then spent several months with an editor to rework the images shot on the spot to give them a painterly quality, and added background music, to evoke a sense of memory.

Palestine Palestine (2002)

FILMOGRAPHY

Memoria desmemoriada / Paraguay Remembered (2014)

Occupied Territories (12 screens installation)

Curitiba Biennal 2013

Dreamers on 125th Street (2008)

The Listening Chamber (2005­ – 2007)

News in Three Lines (2001­ – 2008)

Palestine Remembered (2002­ – 2004)

First Prize Festival Traces de Vies (France)

Palestine Palestine (2001­- 2002)

Creativity Prize Festival Traces de Vies (France)

First Prize Festival of Sucre (Bolivia)

Celebrations (2000)

a play by Copi (1999)

Homosexuality or the Difficulty of Selfexpression (1998)

Duane MICHALS (1993) – Contact series.

Visiting Jonas MEKAS (1992)

Jean ROUCH, First Film: 1947 – 1991 (1947 ­- 1991)

The Letter that Was Never Written (1990)

LIVE series (ARTE)

The Filmmaker or Novel of a Childhood (1989)

The School of La Neuville (1986)

A Short History of French Unions (1984)

A Passage to India (1981)

Mumbai Film Festival

Memories of Workers in Besançon (1978-­ 1979)

LIP or The Sense of Working Together (1976)

Cannes Film Festival (Quinzaine des réalisateurs)

The LIP Struggle Continues (1974)

NO to Downsizing ! (1973)

How to Attain and Maintain Unity (1973)

The Penarroya File : The Two Faces of the Corporation (1972)

The Days of our Death (1970)

Manojhara – The Santa Isabel leper colony (1969)

Kuarahy Ohecha (1968)

LINKS

Artists Website here.

CREDITS

16 – 22 September 2014

John Wood and Paul Harrison

500 Thoughts (2010)

2010, 12’36”

John Wood and Paul Harrison

One More Kilometre (2009)

2009, 2’49”

SYNOPSIS

In contrast to the earlier screening of John Wood and Paul Harrison’s films on Carroll / Fletcher Onscreen both 500 Thoughts (2010) and One More Kilometre (2009) focus on paper and process, whereas the previous screening of Board (1993), Device (1996) and Three-Legged (1997) explored the artist’s bodies in space. In John Wood and Paul Harrison’s more recent works there is a departure from the artists’s bodies and the attention now centred around the use of material objects, constructed sets and process based performances. In our recent exhibition Pencil / Line / Eraser we exhibited Fan / Paper / Fan (2007), Pencil / Line / Eraser (2008) and 500 Pieces of Paper (2010), also exploring the field of expanded drawing and working with alternative methods of using paper as a medium.

BIOGRAPHY

John Wood and Paul Harrison explore the physical and psychological parameters of the world around them through a series of immaculately constructed video works, informative and uninformative text pieces, drawings, doodles and half thoughts, and quite useful sculptures. As trust and support, and cause and effect are played out through simple material and conceptual gestures, the artists question and ultimately affirm a human position in the world that is essentially positive.

Since Wood and Harrison’s first collaboration in 1993, their video works have evolved from single shot ‘studies’ filmed against neutral backgrounds to longer pieces in which a sequence of actions unfold within constructed locations that have more implicit meaning and contribute to greater narrative complexity. The videos maintain a strict internal logic, with the action directly related to the duration of the work. Inside this ‘logical world’ action is allowed to happen for no apparent reason, tensions build between the environment and its inhabitant, play is encouraged and the influences on the work are intentionally mixed.

John Wood and Paul Harrison have had major solo exhibitions at Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo. Selected group shows include British Council Touring, China; Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw; Kunsthalle Tallin, Estonia; Whitechapel Gallery, London. Works held in collections include MoMA, New York; Tate, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; The Arts Council Collection, British Council Collection, and the Government Art Collection, UK.

LINKS

Artist Page

Artists Website

Previous John Wood and Paul Harrison screening

Pencil / Line / Eraser installation shot – Fan / Paper / Fan (2007)

Pencil / Line / Eraser installation shot – Pencil / Line / Eraser (2008)

Pencil / Line / Eraser installation shot – 500 Pieces of Paper (2010)

Carroll / Fletcher would like to thank Abigail Addison and Animate Projects for their collaboration in the programming of this season of films