“Melancholia” by James Elaine & William Basinski, Short Films 1997-2007
Monday, June 14, 1pm at La Sala Rossa - Free Entrance
Followed by a Q & A with William Basinski
Co-presented by Double Negative Collective as a part of the Suoni Per Il Popolo festival
"In Melancholia, one is immediately transfixed by the lilting, repetitive piano melody of Basinski’s 'The Saddest Melody Ever Heard'. Drawn slowly through the dark veil of a lonely tunnel of trees, eventually the world is revealed, shining deceptively. Immediately one begins a bumpy journey around a dull and hollow shell, before being drawn back, away through the encroaching black veil that cloaks and colors all perception. Shot in Super-8 at the World’s Fairgrounds in Flushing Meadows, Queens, NY, Elaine & Basinski’s Melancholia is a concise, darkly romantic psalm, an elegy, a love letter to a broken world."
Double Negative Collective is a Montreal-based group of film, video and installation artists interested in creating, curating and disseminating experimental film.
Founded in 2004, the collective seeks to locate cinema in human experience, in the eye, hand and heartbeat. Through experiments in form, voice and vision, they try to initiate a dialogue long-neglected in the independent artist-based filmmaking community; a benevolent conspiracy of ideas.
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