January 28, 2016
Pleats of Matter: The Films of Blake Williams
3D and 2D films by Toronto Filmmaker Blake Williams
Co-Presented by Automata and Acropolis Cinema
Curated by Jordan Cronk
One of North America's most exciting young filmmakers, Toronto's Blake Williams has spent the past few years experimenting with anaglyph 3D technology, emerging with a series of films that formally investigate a variety of otherwise quotidian spaces and landscapes by casually unlocking their nascent art-historical dimensions. At once playfully conceptual and viscerally charged, his films merge the aesthetics of the digital age with the tools of classic optical technologies, playing light, shadow, and other natural phenomenon off one another in hyper-sensory displays of depth and color. His two latest works, Red Capriccio (2014) and Something Horizontal (2015), represent the pinnacle this approach to date, and together have travelled to the Toronto, New York, and Oberhausen Film Festivals. Join us as we welcome Blake Williams for the first presentation of his work in Los Angeles, with a two-part program dedicated to his work in the realms of both two and three dimensional space.