Name: Michael Snow - La Région Centrale
Start: 2023-05-20T19:30:00-04:00
End: 2023-05-20T23:00:00-04:00
Location: Emerson Dorsch

Michael Snow - La Région Centrale

Moving Image Alliance is a Knight Foundation-invested studio project by Artist Barron Sherer. It’s a resource and service organization founded to create a climate for appreciation and production of contemporary moving image arts based on legacy (pre-digital) cinema practices and technologies.  The project collaborates with and supports media artists and presenters through advocacy, instruction, and public performance.

Moving Image Alliance

Emerson Dorsch

Free admission with registration, and please arrive early; seating is extremely limited.La région centrale is a three-hour film that artist Michael Snow (1928-2023) filmed over a week atop a plateau about one hour by helicopter from the town of Sept-Îles, in Northern Quebec. Snow chose to film a deserted region without a trace of human life.The artist had a special camera apparatus constructed by a technician from the National Film Board of Canada in Montreal. This apparatus is not seen in the film but is part of a later kinetic video sculpture. The filmmaker assembled the soundtrack from contact microphone recordings of original sounds from the apparatus and its tethered remote control unit.In a contemporaneous review for Art Forum, Bill Simon wrote, "Michael Snow's La Région Centrale can be described as heroic bordering on the apocalyptic. ... It is an epochal film because of the extent of the camera movements and its transformation of space..." “La Région Centrale is a ‘masterwork not simply of landscape, but also of the complex problems of representing landscape in the modern era.’"Emerson Dorsch presents the screening in collaboration with Moving Image Alliance, a Knight Foundation-invested studio project by artist Barron Sherer, founded to create a climate for appreciation and production of contemporary moving image art based on legacy cinema practices and technologies. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/moving_image_alliance/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Sherer's project </a>collaborates with media artists, galleries, and institutions through advocacy, instruction, and public performance.Thank you: Knight Foundation, Emerson Dorsch, Other Electricities, Canyon Cinema Foundation, Miami-Dade Department of Cultural Affairs, Celsius, and Unseen Creatures Brewery.

<a href="https://tr.ee/jI94nDkjMe" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">R﻿EAD: In 1972, Jonas Mekas interviewed Michael Snow about the filming of La Région Centrale</a>

<a href="https://thequietus.com/articles/25815-michael-snow-la-region-centrale-lcmf-interview" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">READ: Circling Around La Région Centrale: Michael Snow</a>I﻿n 2018, Michael Snow discussed the film with The Quietus.

<a href="https://www.miaminewtimes.com/arts/michael-snows-art-film-epic-la-region-centrale-screens-in-miami-17007170" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">R﻿EAD: Miami New Times: A Landmark Experimental Film Will Screen at Emerson Dorsch</a>

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