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Project Website: http://slought.org/content/11396/
Slought Foundation is pleased to announce Cuerpos en Camera, an exhibition with film screenings featuring the work of Argentinean filmmaker Daniel Böhm, on display April 18-May 18, 2008. This program is presented in conjunction with the Cinema Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania, with the sponsorship of the Department of Romance Languages. The opening reception with the artist will be on Friday, April 18th from 6:30-8:30pm; curator Osvaldo Romberg will engage the artist in public conversation on Wednesday, April 16th from 6:30-8:00pm, accompanied by a screening of selected film clips.
"There is something inherently strange in the work of Danny Böhm, something removed from our time, something timeless. These films appear as apparitions from the past, movies that look and feel like old movies. This is a compliment and not a critique, for as they unreel, the images make you realize that you are watching the history of cinema. By inserting itself into this artistic strategy, Böhm's oeuvre creates an experience that is a phylogenetic reencounter with the essence of cinematography. Engaging with the collectivities of human nature and rejecting the trivialities of momentary human drama, Böhm makes films that create a universal narrative of plurisexual psychology, played out to conclusion through dances of intimation by silent actors." -- Osvaldo Romberg
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Read the full curatorial essay by Osvaldo Romberg
Daniel Böhm is a filmmaker based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His cinema explores the poetics of movement and psychological awareness. After his initial career as a psychoanalyst, Daniel Böhm studied cinematography and film directing at New York University. His short films have received international recognition, including a First Prize at the Joseph Papp Latino Film Festival in New York, a Golden Plaque in Chicago’s international Film Festival, and a Silver Lion at Cannes, among others. His latest film, Sólo Hombres Solos, is a dance-film triptych. Inspired by the photography of Duane Michals, the film explores three men who share an apartment, albeit unaware of each other's presence. They are each one and the same person, at different stages of life, whose paths unexpectedly intersect for a moment. The camera witnesses this instant through a poetic investigation on male bonding and movement.
This program is made possible in part through the generous sponsorship or support of the Society of Friends of the Slought Foundation, and the Program in Cinema Studies and Department of Romance Languages at the University of Pennsylvania
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