SPACE NOISE: The Return of Makino Takashi

Oct. 14 + 15 - 7:30 pm

$8 Suggested Donation

Artist in Attendance

S1
4148 NE Hancock St

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About This Screening

“Makino Takashi’s immersive live media experiences are a transcendence into ‘physical unconsciousness.’ Hallucinatory and experiential, Makino creates abstract cinematic worlds immersing the viewer like a grain of emulsion free falling in the corporeality of image forming materials” (Unconscious Archives, London). Often described as being at the forefront of Japanese experimental filmmaking, Makino himself generally shies from the term “experimental.” Rather, his influences include the multiple exposure techniques of 1920s French Surrealist films and a near-death experience at the age of five during which he envisioned “a place filled with lights more brilliant than any image I had ever seen.” Makino’s work evolves as he attempts to find the ideal film, “an unshaped, organic, lump-like film that links with the consciousness and mental state of the viewers…and never ceases to change.” Cinema Project brings Makino to Portland for a two-night program showcasing his most recent moving-image work, including Space Noise 3D, a performance that pits pixels and film grain against one another with magical and chaotic results. This program is supported in part by The Japan Foundation, Los Angeles

Program Details

October 14th

Generator
by Makino Takashi
Japan, 2011, HDVideo, color, sound, 19 min.
2012 3D
by Makino Takashi
Japan, 2013, HDVideo, color, sound, 30 min.

October 15th

Article Left by the Departed
by Makino Takashi
Japan, 2013, HDVideo, color, sound, 8 min.
Ghost of OT301
by Makino Takashi
Japan/EU, 2014, HDVideo, color, sound, 9 min.
Wordless in Woods
by Makino Takashi
Japan/US, 2014, HDVideo, color, sound, 3.5 min.