alex mackenzie : filmart

 
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Alex MacKenzie is an experimental film artist working primarily with analog equipment and hand processed imagery. He creates works of expanded cinema, light projection installation, and projector performance. His work has screened at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, the EXiS Experimental Film Festival in Seoul, Lightcone in Paris, Kino Arsenal in Berlin and others. Alex was the founder and curator of the Edison Electric Gallery of Moving Images, the Blinding Light!! Cinema and the Vancouver Underground Film Festival. He was an artist in residence at Atelier MTK in Grenobles, France and Struts Gallery/Faucet Media in New Brunswick. Alex co-edited Damp: Contemporary Vancouver Media Art (Anvil Press 2008), and interviewed David Rimmer for Loop, Print, Fade + Flicker: David Rimmer's Moving Images (Anvil Press 2009). Alex is currently Artist in Residence at Cineworks' Analog Film Annex in Vancouver.

current/upcoming
wndx festival of film and video art commission, the situated cinema (in progress), premieres winnipeg (sep 2012)
handmade emulsion workshops, worm filmwerkplaats, rotterdam (jan 30/31, 2012
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logbook european premiere, rotterdam international film festival (jan 29 2012)
special presentation of the wooden lightbox w/ loscil, push festival (jan 26 2012)
logbook premieres at antimatter film festival (oct 21 2011)
expanded cinema: apparatus & methodology, antimatter film festival (oct 22 2011)
lightbox at tba festival/cinema project, portland (sept 13 2011)
expanded cinema: apparatus and methodology, cineworks (may 21 2011)
artist in residence, cineworks analog film annex (april 2011 > feb 2012)

recent interviews/writings
toward an ecology of film (claudio cacciotti)
living, breathing images (marie-hélène lemaire)
contingencies and continuities: the wooden lightbox
and new media history (zoë constantinides)
listening to the lightbox: recollecting a secret art (samuel thulin)

book reviews
review of loop, print, fade + flicker: david rimmer's moving images
(essay by mike hoolboom, interview by alex mackenzie) in senses of cinema.

review of same in toro
review of damp: contemporary vancouver media art in broken pencil
(edited/designed by alex macKenzie and oliver hockenhull)

 

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