Label: Re:Voir

貴重な映像作品集がRe:Voirより登場!!最も歴史の古いSF及びファンタジーの文学賞であるヒューゴー賞ベスト・アーティスト賞を5回受賞、人気画家と並行して実験映画に関する先駆的な仕事でも知られる米視覚芸術家エド・エムシュウィラー。モダニズムの視点から宇宙における人間の位置を、複雑かつ比喩的に表現した作品[RELATIVITY](1966)を含む、59年〜70年までの実験映像作品集。手持ちカメラをまるでダンサーの身体表現の様に使い、官能的トラッキングショットと複雑な動きにて視覚芸術による濃密で神秘的なイメージを描き出した全9編。サントラも激ヤバです。



DANCE CHROMATIC (1959) 7’
TRANSFORMATION (1959) 5’
LIFELINES (1960) 7’
THANATOPSIS (1962) 5’
TOTEM (1963) 16’
GEORGE DUMPSON'S PLACE (1964) 8’
RELATIVITY (1966) 36’
CAROL (1970) 6’
FILM WITH THREE DANCERS (1970) 19’

“[Relativity is] a complex, metaphoric statement of man’s place in the universe, from a modernist perspective. Significantly, this draws on both science and metaphysics. The most accomplished craftsman of the American avant-garde, Emshwiller uses his handheld camera as if an extension of a dancer’s body, for sensuous tracking shots and intricate movements. Combined with his complete control over tools and technique, this creates a visually dense and mysterious work that comments on man’s evolution, the relativity of his striving, his slightly ridiculous persistence, sexual drives, and possibly hopeful future.”
— Amos Vogel

“What Emshwiller really wants is to become a camera himself! Strange images, strange thoughts must be going through the head (body) of this man. He knows that the camera is blind. All cameras are blind. It’s Emshwiller who makes the camera see the world that way, it’s he who needs to see the world that way, it’s he who twists and turns it and leads it into all the strange and unseen ways, it’s Emshwiller’s body that is vomiting out its existential memories and suspicions.”
— Jonas Mekas