Tue 9/27 @ 7 + 8:30PM
Bruce McClure is a moving-image magician. Specifically, he “forges stunning works of light and sound from a motley assortment of specially-modified 16mm projectors, film loops, transformers, and guitar effects pedals,” and is making his first appearance in Cle with two showings on Tue 9/27. See Are We Fairly Represented? at 7PM and This Does Not Accord with My Experience at 8:30PM @ the CIA Cinematheque.
Background info: “McClure’s movie-projector performances have wowed audiences at major film venues and art museums around the world—from the New York, Rotterdam, and Toronto International Film Festivals to the Walker Art Center, the Wexner Center, and two Whitney Biennials.
“McClure runs film loops of alternating black and clear frames (and some representational footage) through multiple modified projectors that he manipulates by hand. By adding color gels, metal plates in the projector’s shoe assembly, guitar effects pedals, a mixer, and loudspeakers, he constructs an immersive environment of pulsating light formations that throb and flicker to a minimal percussive beat. Though McClure is more of a conjurer or ‘projector player’ than a filmmaker (he writes that his ‘projection performances transfix film in headlights, flatten it and leave it behind as roadkill’), he nevertheless uses the archaic technology of motion pictures to create a new, overwhelming kind of sensory, sculptural ‘cinema.'” Super cool.