Sunday 14 September 2008, 17.00

Cy Twombly's technique is characterised by the use of an expressive line which has been likened to the scratch of the graffitist. Rosalind Krauss has written, 'the formal character of the graffito is that of a violation, the trespass onto a space that is not the graffitist's own'.

Such a description chimes with the way in which a number of experimental filmmakers have made use of scratched celluloid. Scratching the film-strip makes visible the hidden medium with which the filmmaker works. Whilst violence towards the image is one of the most common effects of this technique, it can be used in a variety of different ways, some of which are explored in this programme.

Len Lye, Free Radicals, (1958/1979), 4mins, b/w, sound, 16mm
Len Lye, Particles in Space, (1979), 4mins, b/w, sound, 16mm
Hy Hirsh, Scratch Pad, (1960), 7mins, colour, sound, 16mm
Hy Hirsh, Defense d'afficher, (1958-9), 7mins, colour, sound, 16mm
Storm de Hirsch, Trap Dance, (1968), 1.5mins, b/w, sound, 16mm
Paul Sharits, S:TREAM:S:S:ECTION:S:ECTION:S:S:ECTIONED, (1968-71), 42mins, colour, sound, 16mm
Stan Brakhage, Untitled (For Marilyn), (1992), 11mins, colour, silent, 16mm
Stan Brakhage, Chinese Series, (2003), 2.5mins, b/w, silent, 16mm

Tate Modern  Starr Auditorium
£5 (£4 concessions), booking recommended

    

This event is related to the Cy Twombly: Cycles and Seasons exhibition