Wavelength - Enzian Theater

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Wavelength

  • 6:00 PM, 12/26Thu, 12-26, 6:00 PM
  • Special Programs
    La CinOMAthéque at the Orlando Museum of Art

    Wavelength

    All free La CinOMAthéque screenings will take place in the Truist Auditorium at the Orlando Museum of Art.

    ACCESS FOR ALL AT OMA presents:

    La CinOMAthéque: A collaboration between OMA and Enzian, with generous support provided by the Art Bridges Foundation’s Access for All program.

    The Orlando Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the launch of La CinOMAthéque in partnership with the Enzian Theater, as part of its “Access for All at OMA,” an all-new program offering FREE admission to the museum!

    Access for All at OMA is a monthly free day dedicated to the community. La CinOMAthéque will be a series of 6 bimonthly free screenings of experimental, avant-garde, art films in the Truist auditorium at OMA on Access for All day.

    Each screening will be introduced by a UCF film professor and include a talkback with OMA Chief Curator Coralie Claeysen-Gleyzon and Enzian Programming Manager Tim Anderson.

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    Wavelength

    Introduction by Jimmy Schaus

    Special 16mm Presentation

    WAVELENGTH was shot in one week in December 1966, preceded by a year of notes, thoughts, and mutterings. It was edited and premiered in May 1967.

    “I wanted to make a summation of my nervous system, religious inklings, and aesthetic ideas. I was thinking of, planning for a time monument in which the beauty and sadness of equivalence would be celebrated, thinking of trying to make a definitive statement of pure Film space and time, a balancing of “illusion” and “fact,” all about seeing. The space starts at the camera’s (spectator’s) eye, is in the air, then is on the screen, then is within the screen (the mind). The film is a continuous zoom which takes 45 minutes to go from its widest field to its smallest and final field. It was shot with a fixed camera from one end of an 80 foot loft, shooting the other end, a row of windows and the street …. The room (and the zoom) are interrupted by four human events including a death. The sound on these occasions is sync sound, music and speech, occurring simultaneously with an electronic sound, a sine-wave …. It is a total glissando while the film is a crescendo and a dispersed spectrum which attempts to utilize the gifts of both prophecy and memory which only film and music have to offer.” – Michael Snow, Director

    1967, 45 minutes, Directed by Michael Snow, Unrated

    • In partnership with
    • Orlando Museum of Art
    • With support from
    • Arts for All
    • “Probably the most rigorously composed movie in existence...”

      – Manny Farber, ARTFORUM
    • “The epoch-making fascination of Wavelength is that it explicitly makes ‘everything’ interesting, transforming every discernible element in its path into an object of significance.”

      – Jonathan Rosenbaum, MONTHLY FILM BULLETIN (February 1975)
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