Broad Underground Screening: Flicker Describing a Cone

Flicker Describing a Cone

7pm • Friday • 17 February 2017 • The Pump House

Juxtaposing Tony Conrad’s The Flicker (1966) with Anthony McCall’s Line Describing a Cone (1973), this screening will explore radically different visceral effects possible with cinema. These revolutionary works each use minimalist techniques—alternating black-and-white frames versus a slowly drawn white circle—to produce maximalist yet opposing effects. Stroboscopic rhythms that can be hallucinatory, transcendent, and nauseating all at the same time with The Flicker; and an interactive, three dimensional light sculpture with Line Describing a Cone. Eyes will shutter, and you’ll neither look nor feel at film in the same way again.

 Programmed by Joshua Yumibe

2017.02.17 Broad Underground Flyer