Iris Film Collective highly recommends this free screening of three recent works by filmmaker Makino Takashi on Wednesday September 25th (Doors 7pm/show 730pm) at VIVO (2625 Kaslo St), co-presented with Western Front and New Forms. Makino will be in attendance, his first visit to Vancouver. Screening this evening are Cinema Concret, 23min, 2015 The Picture from Darkness 30min, 2016, music by Simon John Fisher Turner On Generation and Corruption 26min, 2017, music by Jim O'Rourke
Makino Takashi (b. 1978 ) is a Tokyo-based experimental filmmaker widely considered to be one of the most influential Japanese moving-image artists of his generation. After graduating from the the cinema department at Nihon University College of Art, he spent time honing his skills in the London-based studio of the Quay Brothers before moving back to Japan. His unique working process usually involves capturing representational footage of humans, nature, and urban life in various formats and then transforming these images radically during the editing stage. Through a process of layering, superimposition and other formal manipulations, these concrete images blend together into pulsating visual fields of organic abstraction in his finished works. Recent presentations of Makino's work include: documenta 14, Athens, Greece (2017); Austrian Film Museum, Vienna, Austria (2017); New York Film Festival, New York, USA (2014, 2017); Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (2016); The Korean Film Archive, Seoul, Korea (2016); BFI IMAX Theatre, London, UK (2016); MoMAPS1, New York, USA (2013). In 2012, he was awarded the Tiger Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. https://emptygallery.com/artists/takashi-makino/ *Event image still from [The Picture from Darkness]
