Walls of Sound: Two Projector Performances by Bruce McClure
October 25 and 26, 2007
McBean Theater at 7:30pm
Co-presented by the Exploratorium and San Francisco Cinematheque
Working with custom-made filmstrips and an elaborate array of modified projectors, the Brooklyn-based Bruce McClure creates immersive sound/light experiences that go beyond the merely cinematic. McClure premieres his new work in the Exploratorium's McBean Theater on Thursday and Friday, October 25 and 26 at 7:30pm. Admission is $6.00 for Exploratorium and Cinematheque members, and $8.00 for non-members.
McClure's self-made films are projected through multiple projectors, altering the rate of projection so that compelling light and shadow and sound effects are created. He works with the division of the whole into parts. In his cinematic equation, formal considerations are directed towards the projector where the convergence of light lines and sound evolve into an interactive play between the audience and the phenomenal apparatus -- approaching the realm of ecstatic fusing of sound and image in hallucinatory frenzy. The screenings are as follows:
October 25
Program One: Lit Cavities in the Face Open Their Glassy Embrace to Receive You
Rack & Slide (2006) 30 min. Bay Area Premiere
Nethergate (2005) 30 min.
October 26
Program Two: Down the Photoslope in Syncopanc Pulses
Evertow Circumflicksrent…page 298 (2007) 15 min. Bay Area Premiere
Pierced but not Punctured (2007) 20 min. Bay Area Premiere
Unnamed Complement (2007) 25 min. Bay Area Premiere
About the Filmmaker
Bruce McClure became a licensed architect in 1992. After experimenting with metronomes and stroboscopes, McClure started using 16 millimeter film projectors threaded with patterned film strips to lay out timed intervals of light and optically generated sound signals. His projector performances have been included in many international events including the Whitney Biennial, Rotterdam Film Festival, Image Forum (Japan) and the Media City Film Festival, Windsor, Ontario.
Cost: $8.00