stop-and-pause screening #1

(stop-and-pause)

Sunday, April 9th
@ Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny
8pm

SCREENING # 1:

magic hostess : the electric can opener’ by Rob Tyler
music: Matt McCormack

Rob Tyler is a graphic designer and filmmaker based in Portland. Oregon, working in both documentary & experimental mediums. Rob's films and videos are both visually stunning and atmospherically beautiful. Rob's work has screened internationally at such places as Viper|Basel and the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro.

‘interlude’ by Vandana Jain & Mike Estabrook

Mike Estabrook is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. He has been actively involved in New York's counter cultural art world, and was a member of the cultural collective The Pavilion of the American Resistance. Currently, he is working on a collaborative show called Tactics, opening early April at Future Prospects gallery (Manila, The Philippines). His work is on view at the Artists In The Marketplace exhibition at The Bronx Museum (The Bronx, NY), and at The Ides of March at ABC No Rio (New York City, NY).
Vandana Jain is also an artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY and her latest exhibitions have been at the Queens Museum of Art, Momenta Gallery, Asian American Arts Center and PS122.
‘interlude’ is a first time video collaboration for both and a break from all the politics.

‘lure’ : Vanessa Renwick

Portland based Vanessa Renwick is an old lady from Chicago that can still push the trigger on the camera and keeps on pushing it where it hasn’t been pushed before. Tonight’s piece is a never-before-screened video that has only been available on Tara Jane O’Neil’s EP ‘Tracer’ until this evening.

‘waiting for the quinault’: Philip Cooper

Philip Cooper is a filmmaker and musician from Portland, OR. ‘Waiting for the Quinalt’ was shot on Super 8 in various tropical locations. He also designed the flyer for the event so he is adored.

‘untitled’ by Shawna Ferreira
music: M83 & Animal Collective

Shawna Ferreira’s kaleidoscopic video makes the Animal Collective’s disjointed tune an amusement park ride. She also has two new large-scale mixed-media works that will be on view in conjunction with her Case Works exhibition at Reed College. Ferreira is a Portland-based artist whose prints and videos have been exhibited at the Elizabeth Leach Gallery and PICA’s TBA festival.

‘monsters’ by Gretchen Hogue

Gretchen Hogue lives on the bonny banks of the
Willamette River soothed by the natural sounds of the
freight trains and bellowing ships that are her
neighbors. She makes movies, does Thai massage, and
rides a maroon bike.

“Monsters’ is a pixel-saturated collage of The Shining and Rosemary’s Baby.

‘hearts from new york’ : Stephanie Gray

Stephanie Gray is a prose poet and experimental filmmaker living in NYC.
Her Super 8 piece "Hearts from New York" started when she was asked to make a Valentines piece. (oh, the irony……) It turned out looking for hearts was easier than she thought. Most of the hearts found were not in Valentines displays, but were year round hearts. It proves that New York, the coldest of cities, does have a heart, no?

’ you can’t see me when I hide’ by Harris Smith

Harris Smith is a film/videomaker in New York, NY via Washington D.C.
Besides making films, he is in the Graduate Program for Media Studies at the New School for Social Research and has a daily radio show on East Village Radio which can be streamed from www.eastvillageradio.com
at 12-2 EST.

‘You Can’t See” is about a woman who becomes one of the many unemployed and decides to never leave her house again. If you have not been her, you know someone who is her.

‘fist the chip’ by Kristina Davies
music: Spice Tomb

Kristina Davies is an amazing artist/filmmaker, musician living in Portland, OR via Louisville, KY She is also the lead singer of Spice Tomb and this is their first music video and it will make you wish it was 1993 again.

‘striped‘ by Karl Lind & Cat Tyc

Karl Lind is a video/filmmaker-editor extraordinaire from Portland, OR via Las Vegas, NV. He knows more about the whereabouts of Corey Feldman than anyone should. Cat Tyc is a writer/videomaker from Portland, OR via NYC. This (stop-and-pause) event is all her fault. ‘striped’ is a first time collaboration for both and consists of a hacked VCR, a magnet, some color bars and a pair of headphones made to work like a microphone.
In some ways, it is an ode to a pug named Pearl.



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