Spectrum Reverse Spectrum
70mm Films of Margaret Honda
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About This Screening
Cinema Project is honored to bring Los Angeles-based artist Margaret Honda back to Portland for a presentation of her two 70mm films. Spectrum Reverse Spectrum (2014) and Equinox (2019) are cameraless productions, made truly in the film lab, and are only projected from motion-picture film prints. For their silent and pristine exhibition, we are fortunate in Portland to have a (70mm) projector and a partner in the Hollywood Theater. In addition to her two 70mm films, we will also be presenting Honda’s Wildflowers (2015), which was shot and will be presented on 16mm with optical sound.
Cinema, as an experience, an object, and an industry, is integral to these works. They are distillations of some of the very essential elements of the medium: light, color, and that traditional black-box triad of projector-screen-spectator. All three films are without representational imagery, and in fact the two 70mm film prints are without frame lines having no camera originals. Expect a shared and thoughtful evening of cinema that is somehow both inherently physical and conceptual. Following the films, Margaret Honda will be in conversation with Portland-based artist Roland Dahwen.
Program Details
Spectrum Reverse Spectrum: 70mm Films of Margaret Honda
Film prints courtesy of Academy Film Archive.
This program is supported by:
James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation
Multnomah County Cultural Coalition
Regional Arts & Culture Council
City of Portland Office of Arts & Culture
Advance tickets at Hollywood Theatre very soon!
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Spectrum Reverse Spectrum
2014, 70mm, Color, Silent, 21min -
Equinox
2019, 70mm, Color, Silent, 21min -
Wildflowers
2015, 16mm, b/w printed on color stock, optical sound, 3min