Microscope welcomes Paris-based filmmaker Emmanuel Lefrant to the gallery for a special screening of his works on film.
The program *Underground* — which is also the title of Lefrant’s first film and an indication of where most of his filmmaking takes place, literally or figuratively — features eight short films spanning fifteen years, nearly the artist’s complete filmography. Lefrant, who is also a champion of celluloid film and director of Paris-based experimental film distributor Light Cone, engages in his mostly camera-less work with the filmstrip much like a blank miniature canvas, or a densely textured object to pass in front of a beam and translate into light. The end results of the techniques applied to film such as chemical treatments, Pollock-like paint drippings, and burials in different types of grounds, are hypnotic moving image works where the realms of cinema and abstract painting meet. “The point is, paradoxically, to reach the extreme of realistic representation by way of an abstract image […] Every single curve, every single asperity that leaves a mark on the film is the movement of time itself, a trace of its passage. The ‘secret forms’ of emulsion are unveiled, and emphasize the materiality of celluloid, and the processes that reveal the image.” — Emmanuel Lefrant Lefrant will be attendance and available for Q&A following the screening. More info and full program: www.microscopegallery.com Microscope Gallery, 1329 Willoughby Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11237, tel: 347.925.1433; [email protected], Jefferson L (exit Starr Street).
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