Farrington Smith Gallery

Join us tomorrow, Thurs. Dec. 13th at 7 p.m. when Jennifer Shaw will discuss her show Hurricane Story.

We will open at 6:30 in case you haven’t seen the show yet and want to check it out first.

-Amy

TeaTime Film Screening with Louviere + Vanessa
Curated by Madeleine Molyneaux
Cinema, Conversation and Cucumber (…finger…sandwiches…)
Maddin, Deren, Hexen too!
Sunday, December 9th at 4PM at Farrington Smith GallerySupport your local hybrid visual artists…

In symbiotic collusion with a month of photography-related exhibit and events organized by Photo NOLA, please join us for a journey through the short, surreal, handhewn film works of the Bywater-based duo Louviere + Vanessa.

Currently on exhibition at A Gallery for Fine Photography with “As If”, Louviere + Vanessa’s photographs have been featured at Farrington Smith as part of various group shows. This will be the New Orleans premiere of their collected film output to date.

A bit about Louviere + Vanessa…

Satan once said “the mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven”. Louviere + Vanessa make their home and art in New Orleans. Their work effectively combines the mediums and nuances of film, photography, painting and printmaking. They utilize Holgas, scanners, 8mm film, destroyed negatives, wax and blood. They are included in the collections of the Museum of Art, Houston, the Photomedia Center, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art as well as the film archive for Globians International Film in Potsdam Germany and Microcinema in San Francisco. Six images from the Creature series were recently acquired by the George Eastman House for an exhibit that will travel the world through 2010. Curator and programmer Madeleine Molyneaux recently selected Cavite for inclusion in the Festival Nouveau Cinema, Montreal

They experiment in movie pictures and have created the first movie shot with a plastic Holga camera consisting of 1,900 frames. Based on that film, they were hired to shoot the animation sequence for Rosanne Cash’s short film, “Mariners & Musicians“, which had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. A music video for Norwegian composer, Kaada is currently on tour world wide with the Microcinema International series, Halloweird. The animation/film, Repetition Compulsion was screened in Belgium on a double bill with the Bunuel’s classic Un Chien Andalou for the literary festival Passa Porta. Their most recent film screening They have a long fascination with themes of duality, and paradox: beauty as horror, creation as destruction, the personal as a universal.

This late afternoon screening and freewheelin discussion of super 8 craft and concept will conclude with selected clips from kindred spirit faves Maddin (Guy), Deren (Maya) and the classic Hexen.

Sunday Dec. 9th at 4pm. The program will last approximately 90 minutes…but feel free to come and go. We know how Sunday teatime can be…and while you are there, peruse the Jennifer Shaw solo show, Hurricane Story, which opens the night before.