Presented by Dark Mofo and Salamanca Arts Centre.
An INVISIBLE HOUSE event, curated by Brendan Walls
for Dark Mofo 2018. Courtesy of Anthology Film Archives, New York
This retrospective ponders
the pioneering film works of Harry Smith :
American filmmaker, painter, folk music historian,
self-professed shaman and occultist.Some films also feature a live score
performed by local miscreants.
An Australian premiere.
SESSION #6 DETAILS:
Presented by Jack Sargeant.
Featuring the following film:
Heaven And Earth Magick (Film #12)
SESSION DATE / TIMES:
SESSION #6
Sunday 24 June 2018, 2:00pm – 3:06pm
DURATION:
66 minutes
THIS IS A FREE EVENT
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Biography: Jack Sargent
Described as mixing the “critical apparatus of Foucault’s Language Counter-Memory Practice with the sensibilities of a Tod Browning movie” Jack Sargeant is a writer, curator, artist and lecturer who is fascinated by the limits of human behaviour, and the aesthetic, political, sexual, and philosophical challenges to these limits.
An acknowledged expert in underground film and culture, his work has been described as “dangerously inspirational”. His first book – written when he was 26 – Deathtripping: the Cinema of Transgression (republished as Deathtripping: the Extreme Underground) remains the only complete guide to post-punk New York underground film. Subsequent books Naked Lens: Beat Cinema, Suture and Cinema Contra Cinema continue Sargeant’s exploration of underground cinema and avant garde artistic practice.
Simultaneously Sargeant has written extensively about cult and neglected B-movies with essays appearing in numerous collections including From The Arthouse to the Grindhouse (eds Rob Weiner and John Cline) and Underground USA (eds Xavier Mendick and Steven Jay Schneider). Sargeant has written on J G Ballard in Terminal Atrocity Zone (ed Candice Black) and contributed essays on topics as diverse as car crash pop songs, medical fetishism, road rage, and pubic hair to numerous collections. He has also written essays and introductions for books by Lydia Lunch, Joe Coleman, Cat Hope and Erin Coates, amongst others.
He has lectured internationally on topics ranging from underground film, the work of William S Burroughs, obscure cultures and many other areas. He has curated film, performance, lectures, spoken word, fine art and photography exhibitions across the world.
