Doors: 19:30 / Start time: 20:00
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PRISMATIC MUSIC - JOSEPH BERNARD

This month it is a huge pleasure to present the films of visual artist Joseph Bernard. From the mid 70s to the mid 80s, Bernard made over 100 super-8 films, all fairly short, all but one silent, and with a visual immediacy that extends the possibilities of the collage film with both the warmth and intimacy of the personal, and an insistence on the frame as a formal carrier of rhythm and colour. A student of Stan Brakhage in the 1970s, and previously trained for an extensive period as a painter, Bernard began to be interested in the possibilities of filmmaking after seeing Brakhage's Mothlight - a work which has always remained critical to his sensibility as an artist. Along with with the work of artists and filmmakers, poetry and music also remained highly influential to his filmmaking.

The sense of rhythmic presence in the work, the shifting colour fields and abstractions of spectral light, the rapid montage of visual detritus, is often quite suddenly interrupted by an opening up onto a scene, a depiction of a particular space, which draws the formal language of the work back into the quiet immediacy of the poetry of the everyday. It is at these points of division that Bernard's subtle uniqueness as a filmmaker speaks, in a language closely connected to, and reflective of, the small format of super-8. 

We are extremely lucky to have the opportunity to present this selection of films from "one of avant guard cinemas overlooked masters." The program, curated by Bernard himself, half of which is being shown publicly for the first time, will be a sensitive visual treat, and a journey into one filmmakers very personal, celebratory yet humble language.

More info: http://light-movement.blogspot.de/