2:30 pm
Regis North
Art Conservation and the Paintings Conservation Treatment of Paolo Veronese's Annunciation.
by Eileen Sullivan, Art Conservator
This lecture will cover what conservation is (and isn't) and give a brief history of the field while going through the steps of the Veronese Annunciation treatment as a start-to-finish project.
Monday, October 29
12:00 pm
Regis
Breaking Cliché - Travel Photography that is Unique
by Tom Wolf, Photographer and Adjunct Professor of Fine Arts, Canisius College
In a world of social media, there are thousands of vacation images that are repeated over and over and thus have become cliché. This lecture will focus on creating images of your travel experiences that are both aesthetically pleasing and uniquely personal. From developing a concept that is rooted in one's life experience to the interpretation of place using both in-camera and post capture techniques, the audience will be guided through the process of making photographs that stand out from the rest.
FREE
The Case of the Grinning Cat, the latest creation from legendary French filmmaker Chris Marker, takes us meandering through Paris over the course of three years—2001 to 2004—ostensibly in search of a series of mysterious grinning cats whose stenciled image has sprung up in the most unlikely places: high atop buildings all over the city. The film—of which he has just prepared the English version—begins in November 2001 in a Paris still fresh from the shock of the September 11 attacks on the U.S., and where newspaper headlines read "We are all Americans." Over the next year, in the lead-up to the Iraq war, the city's youth march in numerous demonstrations for all manner of causes as Marker continues his pursuit of the mysterious cats. He finds them again, to his surprise, showing up as the emblem of the new French youth movement. "Make cats not war!" street art is the flip side of the idealism and exuberance driving the young people marching in protests the likes of which Paris hasn't seen since the mythic events of May 1968. While at times it might seem that the spirit of idealism has survived intact, the filmmaker's observation of it is tempered. Causes too, he observes, are a matter of fashion, and the film ends on a somber note. Cats and owls, politics and art, nimbly take their places in this Marker shuffle. The whole is woven together by the filmmaker's at times surreal humor, and by his astute and effortless camera that never fails to linger on the odd, ordinary, ineffable moments that only his eye can turn to gold dust. (Dorna Khazeni, 2006 Tribeca Film Festival Catalog)
Cat Listening to Music Marker fans are familiar with the cartoon representation of Guillaume-en-Egypte, Marker's beloved pet cat, which has become the reclusive filmmaker's alter ego. In this charming short, Marker reveals the real-life Guillaume, stretched out lazily in the filmmaker's apartment, as he listens to the lilting rhythms of a piano sonata by Federico Mompou.
An Owl Is An Owl Is An Owl A visit to an aviary yields a rhythmically edited series of close-ups of the rapidly rotating or intently staring feathered heads of a colorful variety of owls, accompanied by an ambient electronic soundtrack.
Zoo Piece A leisurely-paced montage of animals, many of them confined in cages or enclosures-including seals, kangaroos, leopards, gorillas, wolves, monkeys, ostriches, and a sleeping rhinoceros.
Bullfight in Okinawa Two enormous black bulls engage in a contest of brute force, egged on by their screaming handlers, as they butt heads and lock horns in an attempt to rout their opponent.
In this astonishing, sustained shot, an elephant in the Ljubjana Zoo ambles around its enclosure, performing syncopated dance steps to the accompaniment of Igor Stravinsky's "Tango."