Gwendolyn Audrey Foster / Wheeler Winston Dixon ‘New Video Works’
We kindly invite you to the opening of the exhibition 2nd March, 2018 at 6 pm. Free entry. Join us!
Curator: Witold Stypa, Museum of Future in Berlin
The overview of works of noted experimental american filmmakers and video artists.
Gwendolyn Audrey Foster is a prolific filmmaker and scholar with a focus on numerous areas related to cinema; these often include gender, race, ecofeminism, and class studies in film. Foster is the Willa Cather Endowed Professor of English at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.
“My films have been screened internationally at The Nederlands Filmmuseum, The Rice Museum, The Collective for Living Cinema, Swedish Cinemateket, National Museum of Women in the Arts, DC, Bibliotheque Cantonale, Lausanne, Switzerland, International Film Festival of Kerala, India, Films de Femmes, Créteil, Outfest, The Museum of Modern Art, Women’s Film Festival of Madrid, Kyobo Center, Korea, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Université Laval, Quebec, Forum Yokohama, Anthology Film Archives, Amos Eno Gallery, NY, SLA 307 Art Space, NY, Maryland Institute College of Art, NETV, Studio 44 Stockholm, STYPA Museum of Future, Berlin, X-12 Festival, UK, and many other festivals and venues around the world.
I combine elements of Surrealism, eco-feminism, bisexuality, mythology, automatism, slow film, romantic structuralism, collage, abstraction and chance editing. Chance is my favorite collaborator. I often allow abstractions to emerge by manipulating images and sound with little or no intentional 'plan.' I create abstracts, slow films, unusual sound designs, music, and video installations.
I tend to explore the liminal space between film & video in my short experimental films and video installations, made from 'found' recycled materials. I often create mesmeric music and sound collages, again using recycled materials. My films are described as hypnotic, surreal, and enigmatic.
I like to explore liminal spaces — between film & video, real & virtual, abstract & representational, aesthetic & philosophical; disrupting binaries whenever possible. I often make slow cinema, inviting slow contemplation and active meditation. My films look at the spectator. I prefer it when viewers interpret my work in their own ways: viewer’s interpretations are often more interesting than my own interpretations.”
Wheeler Winston Dixon is the James Ryan Endowed Professor of Film Studies and Professor of English at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Dixon is a prolific author of books of film history and cultural criticism, an active writer on film and popular culture, as well as an experimental filmmaker and video artist.
Dixon's best-selling textbook "A Short History of Film" (2008, co-authored with Gwendolyn Audrey Foster) was reprinted six times through 2012. A second, revised edition was published in 2013; a third edition is forthcoming in March, 2018. The book is a required text in universities throughout the world.
His latest books are "The Life and Films of Terence Fisher: Hammer Horror and Beyond" (2017), "A Brief History of Comic Book Movies" (co-authored with Richard Graham; 2017), and "Hollywood in Crisis, or: The Collapse of the Real" (2016).
Dixon's most popular books include "Black & White Cinema: A Short History" (2015); "Streaming: Movies, Media and Instant Access" (2013); "Death of the Moguls: The End of Classical Hollywood" (2012); "A History of Horror" (2010); and "Film Noir and the Cinema of Paranoia" (2009).
Dixon served as co-editor in chief of the journal "Quarterly Review of Film and Video" (1999—2015) with Gwendolyn Audrey Foster. He was also Series Editor for the State University of New York Press Series, "Cultural Studies in Cinema/Video" (1997—2009). From 2009 to 2017, Dixon and Foster served as the Series Editors of "New Perspectives on World Cinema Series" from Anthem Books, UK.
More recently, Dixon and Foster were named Series Editors of the new film book series,"Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture," published by Rutgers University Press (2015—present). To date, there are more than twenty books contracted for the series, with seven volumes currently published.
Dixon's films have been screened at The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Anthology Film Archives, The Microscope Gallery, The National Film Theatre (UK), The Jewish Museum, The Nelson — Atkins Museum of Art, The Millennium Film Workshop, The San Francisco Cinématheque, The Maryland Institute College of Art, The New Arts Lab, The Collective for Living Cinema, The Kitchen Center for Film and Video, The Filmmakers Cinématheque, Film Forum, The Amos Eno Gallery, Sla 307 Art Space, The Gallery of Modern Art, The Rice Museum Media Center, The Oberhausen Film Festival and at numerous universities and film societies throughout the world.
On April 11—12, 2003, Dixon was honored with a career retrospective of his films at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. At that time, his independent films were acquired for the permanent collection of the Museum, in both print and original format.
