Synopses & Reviews
Intricate and emotive, Stan Douglas's film installations are concerned with complex psychological states such as collective memories, forgotten histories, and social alienation. His recent project Journey into Fear derives from two sources--the 1942 and 1975 films of the same name, and Melville's late novel The Confidence Man--and presents an endless array of possibilites, juxtaposing repetition and novelty, destroying conventional senses of time, and trapping the viewer in the haunting world of the film.
Synopsis
Intricate and emotive, Stan Douglas' film installations are concerned with complex psychological states such as collective memories, forgotten histories, and social alienation. His recent project Journey into Fear derives from two sources--the 1942 and 1975 films of the same name, and Melville's late novel The Confidence Man--and presents an endless array of possibilites, juxtaposing repetition and novelty, destroying conventional senses of time, and trapping the viewer in the haunting world of the film. Stan Douglas was born in 1960 in Canada, and ranks among the foremost artists working in film and video. His work has been featured in the Johannesburg, Venice, Sao Paulo, and Sydney biennials as well as at Documenta IX and X. In the U.S., his work has been seen in solo exhibitions at The Art Institute of Chicago; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; The Renaissance Society, Chicago; the Milwaukee Art Museum; the Contemporary Art Museum, Houston; the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and Dia Center for the Arts, New York. He lives and works in Vancouver. Michael Turner was born in 1962 in Canada, and is a widely published poet and novelist. In 1987, he cofounded the hillbilly-punk band Hard Rock Miners with which he played for seven years, Hard Core Logo, his second book, was loosely based on the experience and led to a film version directed by Bruce McDonald which won the Best Canadian Film Award at the Vancouver Film Festival.
Synopsis
By Michael Turner. Artwork by Stan Douglas. Contributions by Achim Borchardt-Hume. Text by Julia Peyton-Jones.