Oct 18, 2013
The Realist (preview)
by Scott Stark
preview created for the Toronto International Film Festival, taking place in September 2013.
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The Realist (preview)
by Scott Stark
preview created for the Toronto International Film Festival, taking place in September 2013.
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Stephen Sutcliffe Transformations (detail) 2005
Art Now Lightbox: Stephen Sutcliffe
Stephen Sutcliffeâs two films take poems as their starting points. Transformations is based on the Thomas Hardy poem of the same title. Hardy draws attention to the cycles of death and rebirth that are ever present in the countryside. He describes a man his grandfather knew and his wife, and a âfair girlâ, who, in a process of organic renewal, have been transformed into trees and flowers:
âŚthey are not underground But as nerves and veins abound In the growths of upper airâŚ
Come to the Edge uses a recording of the poet Christopher Logue reciting a poem originally written in 1968:
Come to the edge. We might fall. Come to the edge. Itâs too high! COME TO THE EDGE! And they came, and we pushed, And they flew.
The poem is combined with video footage shot in a 6th form common room. In the footage a good-humoured scene is suddenly transformed into something altogether more sinister as the group of schoolboys enact a ritual humiliation upon a seemingly older, mustachioed boy. ---from Tate.org.uk
Sebastian Buerkner at Tramway, Glasgow
FRIEZE April 2009 His work recalls a line from the classic film noir Out of the Past (1947), uttered by the duped hero: âI could see the picture in the frame, but not the frame around the picture.â However, his use of disconcerting white flashes, employed âto throw the viewer off balance and out of the imageâ, also intensifies the fleeting and illusory qualities of each picture. Perhaps Buerknerâs installation could be seen as reflecting the âever-more fractured subjectivityâ that theorist Anne Friedberg describes as a consequence of Internet and digital technologies.
His notion is that the work supports a situation in which the viewer is both maker and spectator, conscious and unconscious: âYou can look in and look out from these two worldsâ. More interesting than this, though, is the confrontation that occurs when the viewer looks out of this virtual environment through the two windows that have been cut in the white fabric. The specificity of the venue is more than a foil for Buerknerâs installation â it anchors his work to a site of real engagement.
Sarah Lowndes in Frieze
The Hollow Ones: Michael Sicinski on SCOTT STARK'S THE REALIST
When watching Scott Starkâs wonderful new film The Realist, my mind unexpectedly shot back to a 1977 work by Peter Kubelka. Although itâs strange to think of a minor Kubelka film, especially in a career characterized by such parsimony of expression, not that much has been written about Pause!, partly because it is so notably different from the heavily edited, âhigh articulationâ films on which Kubelka built his reputation. Pause!, by contrast, consists of uninterrupted camera rolls of Kubelkaâs fellow Austrian avant-gardist Arnulf Rainer, as he contorts his face and body, struggling to maintain his balance. As one watches Pause!, it becomes apparent that the limitations of Rainerâs body are setting the parameters of Kubelkaâs shots. In fact, although we cannot be exactly certain of this, it appears that Rainer is taking a breath at the start of each shot, and that Kubelkaâs shot lasts until Rainer collapses under the necessity of resuming respiration. Continue Reading on MUBI Notebook
FIELDS AND FRAMES
Three experiments in cinematic space. OUTWORKÂ Dir Stephen Sutcliffe. UK 2013. 24min A filmic collage inspired by micro-sociologist Erving Goffmanâs book Frame Analysis, which explores how conclusions drawn from interactions shift dramatically due to changes in their framing contexts. THE REALISTÂ Dir Scott Stark. USA 2013. 40min A highly abstracted melodrama storyboarded with flickering still photographs, peopled with department store mannequins and located in the visually heightened universe of clothing displays, fashion islands and storefront windows. THE CHIMERA OF MÂ Dir Sebastian Buerkner. UK 2013. 24min Entering the unfamiliar virtual space of a 3D, stereoscopic digital animation, viewers find themselves behind the eyes of an unseen and distinctly unreliable protagonist. Running time c89 min FRI 18Â 15:45 NFT3 book tickets
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THE REALIST by Scott Stark
THE REALIST Dir. Scott Stark
USA 2013. 40min A highly abstracted melodrama storyboarded with flickering still photographs, peopled with department store mannequins and located in the visually heightened universe of clothing displays, fashion islands and storefront windows.
 CONTEXT: Scott Stark References, inspirations and other material relating to The Realist
A joyful apposition to The Realist from Fernand Leger.
The Chimera of M
Director Sebastian Buerkner UK 2013 24 mins
Entering the unfamiliar virtual space of a 3D, stereoscopic digital animation, viewers find themselves behind the eyes of an unseen and distinctly unreliable protagonist.
Part of the Fields and Frames programme
BFI Southbank, NFT3 Oct 18, 2013 3:45 PM