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Projections Part II: Film as Painting is a sequel to the concepts explored by Aaron Rose's 2010 Projections film festival. Rose continues his venture of presenting in the context of an art gallery works that traditionally appear in a theatrical setting, challenging viewers to not only experience the films as entertainment, but equally as fine art. Rose has characterized films as "moving paintings," and the main gallery's large physical space – most often used to frame two-dimensional works or enclose three-dimensional ones – serves fittingly if uncharacteristically to support works of various lengths by a selected group of filmmaker-artists. Atypical to the general film festival format, the films will interact within a technical installation incorporating multiple projections and monitor displays. Projections Part II: Film as Painting analyzes the relationships between two distinctive artistic practices; by exhibiting a series of works created by both artists and filmmakers that span almost 100 years of cinematic history. It is Rose's endeavor to provoke a shift in the viewer's perception, to not only view a film as film, but truly experience it as a moving painting.

Jeremy Blake

Jeremy Blake
Angel Dust (Still), 2000
Digital Animation (Color, sound), Duration: 20 min.

Yvonne Rainer

Yvonne Rainer
Hand Movie (Still), 1966
8mm film transfered to digital (Black and white, silent), Duration: 8 min.

Marie Menken

Marie Menken
Go! Go! Go! (Still), 1962-64
16mm film, 24 fps, transfered to digital (Color, silent), Duration: 11.5 min.

Harry Smith

Harry Smith
Early Abstractions (Still), 1941 - 57
Mixed media, film transferred to VHS (Color, sound), Duration: 22 min.

Mike Mills

Mike Mills
1979 (Still), 2012
Digital animation (Color, sound), Duration: 12 min.

Len Lye

Len Lye
A Colour Box (Still), 1935
35mm, Eastmancolor transferred to digital (Color, sound), Duration: 4.35 min.
Image Courtesy of the New Zealand Film Archive