Screenings: Movement of People Working (1973–85) and T H I R (1992) by Phill Niblock

Screenings: Movement of People Working (1973–85) and T H I R (1992) by Phill Niblock

Live diffusion by Phill Niblock
6.00 – 7.00pm

Movement of People Working
Movement of People Working is a series of films by Phill Niblock that portray human labour in its most elementary form—construction work, harvesting, planting and fishing, physical exertion, with the help of basic tools. The films are scenes of people in nonindustrialised communities, doing continually repeated movements of manual labour, while their faces are often kept outside the frame. They pre-announce the contradictions and paradoxes of globalisation. Made between 1973–1991, it was filmed in locations including Peru, Mexico, Brazil, Hungary, Portugal, China, and Japan.

T H I R
T H I R (1992) is taken from Ten Hundred Inch Radii, the fourth and final instalment in his Environments series that started in 1968. From 1968 to 1972, Phill Niblock presented four distinct intermedia projects, titled Environments I, II, III, and IV, (some in multiple versions) within various venues in New York City. T H I R was from a performance event that incorporated over two hours of original 16mm nature footage from the Adirondack Mountains of northern New York State. This is a seminal work that incorporates a combination of multi-screen film projection, dance, 35mm colour slides, and original music (generally from tape or occasionally performed live). With T H I R, Niblock repeatedly experimented with the relationships, interactions, and hierarchies of seemingly discrete art forms in order to encourage intermedial encounters that were flexible, unstable, and structurally open.

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Movement of People Working is a series of films by Phill Niblock that portray human labour in its most elementary form—construction work, harvesting, planting and fishing, physical exertion, with the help of basic tools.
T H I R (1992) is taken from Ten Hundred Inch Radii, the fourth and final instalment in his Environments series that started in 1968. T H I R was from a performance event that incorporated over two hours of original 16mm nature footage from the Adirondack Mountains of northern New York State

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