Light Spill
By Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder

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Happy Monday
A documentary film object by Andrew Filippone Jr.
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Both works on view April 20 | 7 pm
@UnionDocs
$8 suggested admission.

On April 20th, UnionDocs presents an art installation of two experimental film-based works. Light Spill, by Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder, and Happy Monday, by Andrew Filippone Jr.

With Happy Monday, documentary filmmaker, Andrew Filippone Jr. moves far beyond conventional documentary form and presentation. For Happy Monday, Filippone turned 6,400 feet of unused 16mm negative film into a tangible, physical object. The 16mm negative is cut and arranged into a sculptural film object on a light box. As audiences linger over the film, an impressionistic soundtrack of dialogue fragments and production sounds from the original film reels fill the room. Here, time is neither sequential nor chronological, but rather static and perpetual.

For Light Spill, artists Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder use traditional materials of cinema—a 16mm projector and film—to explore light, space, and time. The content of their film is secondary to the conceptual exploration of their chosen medium. As the film runs, the projector spews the contents onto the floor, allowing a pile to accumulate throughout the exhibition. As the artists point out, their work “recasts the light mechanics of a peculiar estrangement of the medium. The art of cinema, yes, but more timely: the becoming cinema of art. That is the coming attraction.”

Sandra Gibson & Luis Recorder have shown work at the Whitney Museum of American Art, P.S.1 MoMA, The Kitchen, Barbican Art Gallery (London), KW (Berlin), TENT (Rotterdam), Palais des Beaux-Arts (Brussels), and Image Forum (Tokyo).

Images of Happy Monday: