ASSEMBLING IMAGINATION a Michael Fleming's film selection
Michael Fleming is an Amsterdam based visual artist.
In essence his work appropriates iconic cultural images, altering them to highlight underlying issues. His ‘moving paintings’ are primarily made out of found footage, using feature films, advertising and pop-cultural scenes completed into a mesmerising montage of images. Flemings work has been featured in exhibitions and film festivals internationally. 16 NOV h 21.30
Theater im Hof / p.zza delle Erbe 37 part 1 Avalanche 11' / 2013. Music:Huk Don Phun - 3 Kung Fu Pieces / Corporal Blossom - Plastic Job. Natasha Spencer - The house she flew in on. / Stock, Hausen & Walkman - Fistucuffs. / Bee Gees - Staying Alive / Toshio Kajiwara, Dj Olive, C. Marclay, Erik M. Dummy Run - Blast Avoidance Mix / Realistic - Trademark Messaging. A found-footage, hand manipulated, cameraless 35mm celluloid film.This collage film is about the perpetual image flood we receive daily. Loaded with iconographic images of consumerism and amusement . The film releases an overflow of our own popular culture to the viewer. the Rapture 5' 3'' / 2014. Music: Christian Marclay and A finely-tailored Jitbag. A pulsating bombardment of images about our insatiable pursuit of perpetual happiness and freedom from fear. A frame by frame hand manipulated 35mm celluloid collage film, the found footage is augmented by stills that were taken from various magazines, then distorted and deformed. Over&Over 8' 1'' / 2015. Music composed, recorded, mixed, and edited by: Aaron Michael Smith. A 35mm found-footage hand-manipulated collage film focusing on the depiction of fear and revenge seen in commercial cinema. Manipulating our fear of mortality, it suggests we decimate what threatens us. The surface of the film material has been treated in the same way: peeling, scalping, cutting, and burning the image. :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 18 NOV h 20.30 RU17 // via Piani 17 part 2 the Garden of Delight 11' 36'' / 2017. Music composed, recorded, mixed, and edited by: Aaron Michael Smith. Musicians: Timothy Paek – Cello, Yeji Oh - Piccolo, Elisabeth Shafer - Trombone John Demartino - Double Bass, Shanon Rubin - Clarinet & Bass Clarinet Janny Joo - Violin, Sean Gill - Percussion Three scenes reflecting on paradise, lust and hell. In ‘the Garden of delight’ beauty and evil go together like in a dream. We dive into a world of erotic derangement, inhabited by dancing lovers, lustful mutated baboons, tropical birds, deformed pin-ups, butterflies and body-builders. This hand-manipulated collage film, made entirely out of 35 and 8mm found-footage, explores the marriage between heaven and hell, our irresolvable endless conflict that goes with human nature. Inspired on the triptych ‘the Garden of Delight by Jheronimus Bosch. Never Never Land 9' 13'' min, 2018. Music by: Aaron Michael Smith. Never Never Land is about our obsession with physical perfection, our domination and wanting to control everything. Not only being the perfect human being but also creating him. Chance is replaced by choice. This idea that all is possible and engineerable arises the belief that even our fantasy is realizable. ‘Shaping my life’ this becomes our individual main goal; our life as a project. In our greedy 'me-itis' we want to fully explore ourselves, create our ultimate dream. Our demand to be 'Homo Perfectus', being Superman, the DIY-made Uber-God 3.0! |
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