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Peter Burr, The Mess, video still
LABYRINTHS: THE FILMS OF PETER BURR (2012-2020)
Co-presented by California College of Art
Wednesday, February 3rd - Wednesday, February 10th
Total Running Time: 75 min.
Screening every 90 min. (with 15 min. intermissions) at: 6:00am, 7:30am, 9:00am, 10:30am, Noon, 1:30pm, 3:00pm, 4:30pm, 6:00pm, 7:30pm, 9:00pm, 10:30pm, Midnight, 1:30am, 3:00am
(Pacific Standard Time)
ALONE WITH THE MOON (2012, 13 min)
Burr creates a slow, liminal illusion in black-and-white, switching perspectives and matrices and crescendoing in time with Christopher Doulgeris’s portentously pulsating soundtrack.
SPECIAL EFFECT (2014, 22 min)
Channeling Tarkovsky’s STALKER, this film’s fractured and spiraling narrative is traversed through a hypnotizing blend of live action and various digital animation styles.
GREEN | RED (2014, 10.5 min)
Burr conjures a shape-shifting world where the sidewalks are endless, the radio is playing electric, and the night sky is broken open by a cataclysm of shuddering stars.
THE MESS (2016, 14 min)
This film follows the perspective of a solitary woman who descends into an abandoned subterranean ‘arcology.’ She is tasked with cleaning up the mess that has spawned from this feral structure, becoming lost in the process.
PATTERN LANGUAGE (2017, 10.5 min)
Architect Christopher Alexander’s design theories are applied towards a generative video game labyrinth, resulting in this rhythmic animation made of rippling, skipping, and strobing arrays of light infused with programmatic digital pixelation.
BLACK SQUARE (2020. 6.5min)
An assembly of human figures writhe and squares strobe in rhythm to audio sampled from the opening of the 1965 Op Art exhibition "The Responsive Eye". Through the friction of this contrast, a portrait emerges of an anxious divided society testing the boundaries of awareness.