The Cinematic Body: Screening & Lecture series

Jul 2, 04:01 PM by Kate Taylor

Wednesday 8th July
6.30pm
Fact Liverpool £7.00/£5.00

Inspired by Bernie Lubell, these three lectures and screenings will explore the way in which technology continues to transform concepts of the human body. With this series of films, we will discuss the historical, cultural and theoretical trajectory of the technological body: looking at the fragmentation of the Victorian body in early chronophotography.

Film as Skin Expanded Cinema, video art and the apparatus
The expanded cinema works of artists and filmmakers around 1970 sought to disclose the physical potential of the medium of film. Working with the film apparatus in an almost ?artisanal? way, artists such as Tony Conrad, Taka Imura, Malcolm Le Grice and Anthony McCall created film environments involving multiple projections, which emphasised, examined and played with the body/apparatus relationship. An examination of the physical position of the body in the world became a starting point for a socio-political debate about identity, class and gender.