Screening Dates
  • December 8, 2017 7:00
Free Admission

“Seeing the film for an hour is like watching the institution of cinema as a whole operate for a long period of time.”

Jeff Wall

The first film work by acclaimed Vancouver-based artist and musician Rodney Graham—affiliate of the so-called Vancouver school of photoconceptualism—throws into relief the mechanics, labour, and economics of cinema, from production to consumption. Shot on location at night, it depicts a river in landscape illuminated by generator-powered lights, which muffle the natural soundtrack with discordant, machine noise. Its theatrical exhibition—as crucial to Two Generators as the film itself—requires the projectionist to dim the house lights, manually load and project the four-minute film, then bring the house lights up, rewind and re-thread the film, and repeat the process.

Rodney Graham will introduce a 60-minute presentation of the installation.