Love, Time and Decorum at Art Basel Miami Beach

TONIGHT – Wednesday December 5 at 8pm and 9pm

Art Video Nights at Art Basel Miami Beach

For the outdoor screenings at the New World Center, David Gryn of Artprojx has selected eight programs running over four nights.

Location: New World Center, SoundScape Park, 500 17th Street, Miami Beach
Admission to Art Video Nights is FREE.

Wednesday December 5 at 8pm – Love, Time & Decorum
This year’s edition of Art Video opens with a program about body language, behavior, knowledge, and motion: it traces the undercurrent of sensuality and anxiety connecting these otherwise disparate films.

Mauricio Lupini | Repeat after reading (O BA), 2011, 1’29” | Ignacio Liprandi Arte Contemporáneo
Evandro Machado | Desmaterial, 2011, 7′ | A Gentil Carioca
William Kentridge | Anti-Mercator, 2010/11, 9’45” | Goodman Gallery, Marian Goodman Gallery, Lia Rumma
Adam Shecter | Hydra, 2006, 2’50” | Eleven Rivington
Ana Prvacki | The Greeting Committee, 2012, 3′ | Lombard Freid Gallery
Amar Kanwar | A Love Story, 2010, 5’37” | Marian Goodman Gallery
Sam Samore | Compendium of Perplexities, 2011, 7′ | Team Gallery
Robin Rhode | Open Court, 2012, 1′ | Lehmann Maupin
Marie Bovo | Subak, 2010, 4’50” | kamel mennour
Hans Schabus | Echo, 2009, 3’45” | Zero…

Wednesday December 5 at 9pm – Music, Magic & Melancholia
This program is inspired by the magic of music. Artists respond to the sounds of Sigur Rós and Antony and the Johnsons, reflecting on the spectrum of emotions that music can provoke, from anticipation to melancholy, love and rage, and the joys of making noise.

Tim Davis | Counting In, 3’30”, 2012 | Greenberg Van Doren Gallery
Simon Dybbroe Møller | The Loud Speaker, 3’55”, 2012 | Galerie Kamm
Ryan McGinley | Varúð, 2012, 8′ | Team Gallery
Adam Shecter | Mysteries of Love, 2002, 3’02” | Eleven Rivington, Antony and the Johnsons
Ragnar Kjartansson | Ég anda, 2012, 6’15” | i8 Gallery, Luhring Augustine
Adam Shecter | The Lake, 2003, 4’48” | Eleven Rivington, Antony and the Johnsons
Nick Abrahams | ekki mukk, 2012, 10’30” | Courtesy of the artist
Ari Marcopoulos | Detroit, 2010, 7’32” | Kavi Gupta Gallery, Marlborough Fine Art

http://www.artprojx.com

Art Basel Miami Beach 2012 – Art Video Nights

http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/2012-programming-and-events/

Art Video Nights

Running from December 5 to 8, Art Video Nights will showcase 60 film and video works on the 7,000-square-foot outdoor projection wall of the Frank Gehry-designed New World Center in SoundScape Park. Presented by participating galleries of Art Basel Miami Beach, the program features works by artists including Julieta Aranda, Daniel Arsham, Guy Ben-Ner, Theaster Gates, Jesper Just, Mauricio Lupini, Ryan McGinley, Rashaad Newsome, Robin Rhode, Sam Samore, Adam Shecter, and Hu Xiangqian. Art Video Nights will also feature a special dusk-to-dawn screening of the 12-hour long film Bliss by Ragnar Kjartansson, presented by Art Basel in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) North Miami and the New World Center on Saturday, December 8 at 6pm. Art Video is organized in association with David Gryn, Director of London’s Artprojx.

www.artbasel.com/videonights

www.artprojx.com

See the full e-flux announcement

http://www.facebook.com/artbaselmiamibeach/events

http://www.fadwebsite.com/2012/11/26/art-video-nights-at-art-basel-miami-beach-2012/

Sam Samore screening: Mirror of Happiness at Anthology 15 Oct

Sam Samore: Mirror of Happiness

Screening of SAM SAMORE’s feature film Mirror of Happiness (2012)

Monday October 15 2012, 7:30 pm

Anthology Film Archives

32 Second Avenue at 2^nd Street

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The artist will be present. The screening will be open to the public.

Space is limited. For tickets, RSVP to: martha@teamgal.com or (212) 279 9219

Mirror of Happiness, 2012

Color and black & white

Spoken English and French, with English subtitles

(93 minutes)

Trailer

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Team is pleased to present the U.S. premiere of a new feature film by Sam Samore.

Mirror of Happiness, 2012 is a fragmented fairy tale about love and the longing for community, situated at a time of global recession. Two anti-heroes from Paris run away to Istanbul (Lolita Chammah and Andy Gillet), and are momentarily embraced by the Turkish fashion scene. Hunted down by unseen assassins, these aficionados of nature seek a new kind of paradise by the polluted sea. Or perhaps their paranoid fears, and fantasies of nirvana, are fictions of their imagination, and they never actually leave their hotel room. In a parallel universe unbeknownst to the Istanbul duo, an unnamed couple (Tommy Day Carey and Sydney Harris) living in New York City undergo a mirror narrative. These urban romantics experience the alienation of contemporary life, continuously consoling and caring for one another as they play pool, frequent a bowling alley, and take a ferry ride around the Statue of Liberty. At various moments, all four characters address the audience in soliloquies that analyze their own lives, and examine the psychology of their lovers.

Throughout the unfolding of these two tales of different cities, a trio of dancers weave intermittent allegorical commentary. The film also features a pair of Ghosts – a doppelganger couple who play off the film’s scenarios of conflict and affection. Mirror of Happiness begins as a loose adaptation of Jean-Luc Godard’s Pierrot le Fou, and then something else happens along the way.

Mirror of Happiness follows the trajectory of Sam Samore’s recent films, which can be described as visual poems oscillating between reality and fiction, often told as a non-linear narrative. His stories show people alone or in interaction with others and often resemble dream sequences – confronting us with our secret wishes, fears, and emotions, sometimes buried deep in our unconscious. Samore’s films reveal his continued interest in the critical analysis of how we live together in society – especially under the norms of gender and the assigning of roles, the codes of behavior, as well as the structures of power relations.

Samore’s recent short film Compendium of Perplexities, 2011 (7 minutes) will be screened before Mirror of Happiness. Composed of many threads, the film has no fixed narrative, nor explanations. At the core is a group of individuals in search of something: tormented, alienated, detached.  A woman repeatedly jumps off a balcony – but somehow she’s always restrained from falling. A group throws the dice as a tale of fortune. A man digs a ditch to eternity. Someone walks down the street, never looking back. Two boys pass back and forth an unconscious girl – ritualistic and arbitrary. These dream-like sequences unfold in a grainy black and white, suggesting the animation of Samore’s monochrome photographs. A hypnotic soundtrack perhaps generates alpha waves in the viewer.

Sam Samore’s films have been shown internationally. Hallucinations/Paradise, 2010 a feature length movie, premiered at the Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai, and was included as part of the film program of Art Basel 2011. A Melancholy Encyclopedia, 2007 (30 minutes) premiered at the Istanbul Biennale. Glossary of Delusions, 2010 (6 minutes) was shown at the Screening Room: Cologne at the Temporary Gallery Cologne in August 2011. Funk Lessons with Adrian Piper, 1983 (16 minutes) has been screened in numerous film festivals and museums.

Team gallery, inc., 83 grand st New york, ny 10013 tel. 212.279.9219 fax. 212.279.9220

Sam Samore: Mirror of Happiness