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ANTHONY McCALL
LONG FILM FOR FOUR PROJECTORS
at Tate Britain, 10 September 2004, from 4-11pm
Admission Free
For one night only Anthony McCall's seminal work Long Film for Four
Projectors (1974) will be shown in an event at Tate Britain on 10 September.
The event is a rare chance to experience this remarkable work.
Anthony McCall uses film to explore notions of space, audience, structure
and duration. Long Film for Four Projectors locates the spectator within a
broad, sculptural field of intersecting planes of light. Spectators are
encouraged to move about the space and across the projector beams as it
becomes apparent that there is no singular position from which to view the
work. The immediacy of the projected installation continues to challenge our
perception of conventional film as an image thrown onto a wall.
The film was hand-animated from a single, drawn straight line. One complete
cycle of Long Film for Four Projectors lasts about six hours. The cycle is
built on the repeated showing of just four reels, one for each projector.
Each reel is projected forwards and backwards, and through both sides of the
strip of film. Coupled with the exchange of reels between the paired
projectors these manipulations produce eight 35-minute sections, each
different from the other seven.
McCall describes the work as follows:
"The film is in constant motion. It is composed out of the shifting
relationships between each of the four planes of light: their speed of
movement, the direction in which they travel, the orientation of each plane
to the perpendicular, and the modulation of their surfaces.
"The purpose of these permutations is to extend the duration of the work to
the point where, instead of a single audience that arrive and leave together
and share a common experiential time, there is a coming and going of
individual visitors that is irregularly spread over the duration of the
presentation. Decisions as to when to come, how to approach the work, how
long to remain, rest with the individual."
McCall began making performances and films in the UK in 1971, moving to New
York in 1973. He has subsequently exhibited widely worldwide. Long Film for
Four Projectors was originally premiered at the London Film-makers Co-op in
1975. Later, it would be shown at Documenta VI, Kassel, Germany. In recent
years, McCall was included in the Whitney Museum of American Art's
exhibition Into the Light: The Projected Image in American Art 1964-1977,
and the Whitney Biennial, 2004. This year, McCall has exhibited at the Mead
Gallery, Warwick University, as well as exhibiting two new works Doubling
Back (2003) and Turning Under (2004) at Gagosian Gallery, London.
ARTISTS TALK and SCREENING
Also on 10 September, between 18.30 and 20.00, Anthony McCall will discuss
his work and his influence on avant-garde filmmaking with artists Stephen
Johnstone and Graham Ellard. Gordon Matta-Clark's film Conical Intersect
(1975) will also be shown as part of this event.
Tickets for this talk are available now on 020 7887 8888
or at www.tate.org.uk/tickets, priced £7 (£4 concession).
The event is supported by the New Art Trust, San Francisco. Long Film for
Four Projectors will also be screened at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2005.
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/mccall.htm
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