Los Angeles-based artist Jennifer West appears in person to activate with the audience a new iteration of her interactive cinematic installation Flashlight Filmstrip Projections. In this work, originally conceived as a “swan song to celluloid”, plexiglass frames lined with 35 and 70mm filmstrips are hung in the darkened space. The audience is invited to use powerful flashlights to individually and collectively project the filmstrip images assembled by the artist, which include as materials castoffs from Hollywood productions, hand-painted 70mm film leader, footage shot on 35mm of text, hand-shadow shadow play, Google maps, Wikipedia and images searches and YouTube compilations of early cinema footage of Loïe Fuller’s "Serpentine Dance".
"Dreamlands: Expanded" is a series of expanded cinema events organized by Microscope Gallery in collaboration with the Whitney Museum of American Art as part of the exhibition "Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905-2016"
Lead Underwriting Support Provided by the Robert D. Bielecki Foundation. Generous Support provided by J.J. Kasper, Paul Jost, and Natasha Reatig. This presentation is made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council of the Arts' Electronic Media & Film Presentation Funds grant program, administered by The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes. Microscope Gallery Event Series is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC). Additional Support provided by Knockdown Center and Negativland. Sponsored by Colorlab and The Bodega. Official Media Partner: The Brooklyn Rail.