 Internal Systems: Films by Coleen Fitzgibbon
Thursday, October 14, 6:00 p.m.
Coleen Fitzgibbon in person!
Gene Siskel Film Center
(162 N. State / 312.846.2600)
Image: Still from "Internal System" (Coleen Fitzgibbon, 1974). Courtesy the artist.
"...Brilliance waiting to be revisited." - Holly Willis, LA Weekly
Between 1973 and 1975, Coleen Fitzgibbon, operating under the name "Colen Fitzgibbon," produced a series of films that stand as some of cinema's most rigorous explorations of the medium. Associated with the Structural film movement and New York's No Wave scene, Fitzgibbon's films emphasize time, duration, and their own flickering mechanics while also hinting at a deeper socio-cultural meaning. This evening, the SAIC alumna will present four of these films, including her 1974 standout, Internal System , whose recent restoration is attracting fresh acclaim. In the words of curator Andréa Picard, the film is "a vast, minimalist study of the monochromatic frame, a sort of sublime testing of film's internal logic, its emulsive permutations and light sensitivities." Also on the program: Fitzgibbon's scratchy audio-visual collage Found Film Flashes (1974); the gorgeous FM/TRCS (1974) which uses the process of rephotography to transform the image of a woman dressing into abstract orbs of color and light; and the witty Restoring Appearances to Order (1974), featuring a short sequence of Fitzgibbon scrubbing a dirty sink to suggest the labor of art-making. Special thanks to Sandra Gibson for her generous assistance with this program. Coleen Fitzgibbon, 1973-75, USA, 16mm, ca. 75 min (plus discussion).
COLEEN FITZGIBBON (1950, Illinois) was active as an experimental film artist under the pseudonym "Colen Fitzgibbon" between the years 1973-1980. A student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Whitney Independent Study Program, she studied with Owen Land (aka "George Landow"), Stan Brakhage, Yvonne Rainer, Vito Acconci, and worked on film projects for Dennis Oppenheim, Gordon Matta-Clark, and Les Levine. She formed the collaborative X+Y with Robin Winters in 1976, the Offices of Fend, Fitzgibbon, Holzer, Nadin, Prince, and Winters in 1979 and is best known for co-founding the New York based Collaborative Projects, Inc. (Colab) in 1977, along with artists Kiki Smith, Jenny Holzer, Liza Bear, Betsy Sussler, and Tom Otterness, among others. Fitzgibbon has screened her work at numerous international film festivals and museums, including the EXPRMNTL 5 at Knokke-Heist, Belgium; Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Anthology Film Archives, Collective For Living Cinema, and Millennium Film Workshop, all New York City, and most recently at the Toronto Film Festival (2009) and the Museum of Modern Art, New York City. Fitzgibbon currently resides in New York and Montana.
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UPCOMING PROGRAMS
10/21 - Luis Gispert: Hyperreal (Luis Gispert in person!)
10/28 - Under the Cement, Sediment: Recent Video In and Around China (Curator Pablo de Ocampo in person!)
11/4 - Civil Status: Films by Alina Rudnitskaya (Alina Rudnitskaya in person!)
11/11 - Erie (Kevin Jerome Everson in person!)
11/18 - Reenactments (Curator Irina Botea in person!)
12/2 - The Unstable Object (Daniel Eisenberg in person!)
LOCATION AND TICKETS
Programs take place Thursdays at 6:00 p.m. at the Gene Siskel Film Center (164 N. State), unless otherwise noted.
CATE is now FREE to SAIC students with a valid student ID. Tickets are $10 General public, $5 Film Center members, $7 students, and $4 SAIC faculty and staff and Art Institute of Chicago staff.
Any person with a disability who would like to request an accommodation for this program should contact the Disability and Learning Resource Center at dlrc@saic.edu or 312.499.4278 as soon as possible to allow adequate time to make proper arrangements.
About the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
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