by Jesse Malmed | May 15, 2012 | Blog
The world of moving images is fraught with comparisons to magic, to illusions. It is our inheritance and it’s where photographic work gets its heat. Mary Helena Clark’s films work because she understands the perpetual strangeness of seeing “real...
by Jesse Malmed | Apr 24, 2012 | Blog
SITE Santa Fe, my home city’s premiere contemporary art exhibition space, has a good track record with moving images. Among the many stand out pieces in the Klaus Ottmann-curated 2006 biennial Still Points of the Turning World was Carsten Nicolai‘s immersive...
by Jesse Malmed | Mar 20, 2012 | Blog
I arrived 11 hours late to the movie. I asked the ticket-man if I’d missed anything. Yeah, he said, you missed the really dirty parts. Jesse Cain’s Parts and Labor is 13 hours. It is his hands replacing the engine of a car, piece by piece. The work is shot...
by Jesse Malmed | Mar 6, 2012 | Blog
It is not uncommon to find oneself dreaming of Michael Robinson‘s films weeks after having watched them. By that I mean it happened to me once. Specifically, it happened to one of us once. I (the other one) have not had that dream, but have had the opposite reaction....
by Jesse Malmed | Feb 21, 2012 | Blog
This weekend, Chicago’s Poetry Foundation plays host to FJORDS, an exciting multimedia adaptation of Zachary Schomburg’s book of poems of the same name. A collaboration between Manual Cinema and the Chicago Q Ensemble, the production features all manner of...
