Shards and Remains
Five Flaming Days in A Rented World
October 28 – November
1, 2009
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by Sean Kirk & Jerry
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Large format photographs reproducing the
discarded film shards
from the
restoration of Jack Smith’s films.
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The images
in Shards and Remains are created
from Jack Smith’s garbage. These are the remains that had to be removed from
the abandoned junk that is called “The Art of Jack Smith” which itself was
saved from the dumpster. |
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These
scraps were swept off the floors of the editing rooms where the restoration
of his films took place. Hair, NYC roach
feces, dust particles from the destruction of Atlantis that still float in
the atmosphere, and feather dander from the vultures of the Uptown Cocktail
Party Crowd can all be seen stuck to the celluloid or snagged in the sprocket
holes. |
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Jack re-edited his films while
performing/presenting them. He used scotch tape, masking tape, gaffers tape,
paper tape, PressTape, or any tape that was handy. In restoring the films, these “splices”
often had to be excised. |
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Each image
is digitized re-contextualized, and enlarged to a degree that heightens the
usual perception of a film splice. Each encapsulates the moment of juncture
in the celluloid filmmaking of Jack Smith in which Beauty meets the Dust. |
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