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Scenes from a Marriage
07.12.2024 — 02.02.2025Scenes from a Marriage
Part Four of Many Parts
Scenes from a Marriage
07.12.2024 — 02.02.2025Scenes from a Marriage
Post Tenebras Lux (Carlos Reygadas, 2012, 115 min)
Scenes from a Marriage
Talk and screening
https://tinyurl.com/Scenes-Marriage
Program
19:00 Introduction: Sanneke Huisman
19:15 Conversation: Giovanni Giaretta, Erik Viskil & Sanneke Huisman
19:45 Short Break
20:00 Screening: Post Tenebras Lux (Carlos Reygadas, 2012, 115 min.)
22:00 Drinks
Join us for an engaging discussion (in English) exploring the relationship between video and film. The evening will feature Giovanni Giaretta, an artist known for his poetic explorations of perception, language, and the fluid boundaries between disciplines. Giaretta’s work often reflects on how we experience time and memory through moving images, making him a strong speaker to delve into the interplay between video and film.
The conversation will include curator Sanneke Huisman, who will provide insight into the themes and curatorial choices of the exhibition ‘Part Four of Many Parts’, and Erik Viskil, professor of research in the arts at Leiden University. Together, the three speakers will examine the conceptual and technical aspects of video and film, discussing how these mediums intersect and diverge in both artistic practice and theoretical contexts. Viskil will also share his perspective on the evening’s themes and introduce the feature film Post Tenebras Lux.
Screening
The title Post Tenebras Lux translates to Light after Darkness, setting the tone for this enigmatic and visually stunning film. Directed by Carlos Reygadas, a key figure in contemporary auteur cinema, the film challenges traditional narrative structures with its fragmented, dreamlike storytelling. The Academy ratio and wide-angle lens distortions create a painterly quality, as cinematographer Alexis Zabé’s compositions oscillate between raw spontaneity and deliberate, almost sculptural framing. The film’s visual and conceptual approaches blur the lines between gallery video art and theatrical cinema, making it a fascinating companion piece to Giovanni Giaretta’s work.
Manohla Dargis of The New York Times wrote: ‘Everything in the film may be in the past or may just be in the eternal, magnificent, maddening present that is Mr. Reygadas’s consciousness.’ Jonathan Romney described the film as ‘fluid, elusive, and intriguingly open-ended’, inviting viewers to immerse themselves in its meditative flow. He also remarked: ‘Alexis Zabé’s vividly beautiful photography variously makes the images seem spontaneously caught, or deliberately framed and fixed in a video art manner—and it could be argued that this film has much more in common with gallery video than with most contemporary theatrical art cinema... The film feels genuinely, bracingly experimental in that it seems to be searching for its own meaning and form, rather than asserting them ready-made.’
This evening of dialogue and screening is part of the exhibition Part Four of Many Parts, which explores intersections between contemporary art and film.
We look forward to welcoming you!
Talk and screening
Event
Friday 31.01.2025, 19:00 — 22:30 H.
Location
West in the former American embassy
Language
Engels
Tickets
Free, please reserve your spot at
https://tinyurl.com/Scenes-Marriage
Program
19:00 Introduction: Sanneke Huisman
19:15 Conversation: Giovanni Giaretta, Erik Viskil & Sanneke Huisman
19:45 Short Break
20:00 Screening: Post Tenebras Lux (Carlos Reygadas, 2012, 115 min.)
22:00 Drinks
Join us for an engaging discussion (in English) exploring the relationship between video and film. The evening will feature Giovanni Giaretta, an artist known for his poetic explorations of perception, language, and the fluid boundaries between disciplines. Giaretta’s work often reflects on how we experience time and memory through moving images, making him a strong speaker to delve into the interplay between video and film.
The conversation will include curator Sanneke Huisman, who will provide insight into the themes and curatorial choices of the exhibition ‘Part Four of Many Parts’, and Erik Viskil, professor of research in the arts at Leiden University. Together, the three speakers will examine the conceptual and technical aspects of video and film, discussing how these mediums intersect and diverge in both artistic practice and theoretical contexts. Viskil will also share his perspective on the evening’s themes and introduce the feature film Post Tenebras Lux.
Screening
The title Post Tenebras Lux translates to Light after Darkness, setting the tone for this enigmatic and visually stunning film. Directed by Carlos Reygadas, a key figure in contemporary auteur cinema, the film challenges traditional narrative structures with its fragmented, dreamlike storytelling. The Academy ratio and wide-angle lens distortions create a painterly quality, as cinematographer Alexis Zabé’s compositions oscillate between raw spontaneity and deliberate, almost sculptural framing. The film’s visual and conceptual approaches blur the lines between gallery video art and theatrical cinema, making it a fascinating companion piece to Giovanni Giaretta’s work.
Manohla Dargis of The New York Times wrote: ‘Everything in the film may be in the past or may just be in the eternal, magnificent, maddening present that is Mr. Reygadas’s consciousness.’ Jonathan Romney described the film as ‘fluid, elusive, and intriguingly open-ended’, inviting viewers to immerse themselves in its meditative flow. He also remarked: ‘Alexis Zabé’s vividly beautiful photography variously makes the images seem spontaneously caught, or deliberately framed and fixed in a video art manner—and it could be argued that this film has much more in common with gallery video than with most contemporary theatrical art cinema... The film feels genuinely, bracingly experimental in that it seems to be searching for its own meaning and form, rather than asserting them ready-made.’
This evening of dialogue and screening is part of the exhibition Part Four of Many Parts, which explores intersections between contemporary art and film.
We look forward to welcoming you!