The Momental-Jeff Preiss

eröffnung/opening: 5. Mai, 2006 | 19-23:00
6. Mai - 10. Juni, 2006

	Calendar Curator Text Austellung/Exhibition Larissa Fassler Ivana Franke Germaine Koh Stephan Kurr Jeff Preiss Åsa Ståhl Lectures Mark Paterson Christel Weiler + Barbara Gronau Johan Zetterquist mit Judith Manzoni Workshops Stephan Kurr + Jürgen Krusche Markus Miessen


		Preiss \| Strip Mirror\| 2005-06

Jeff Preiss

Camera Rolls 1827-1835
Strip Mirror | 2005-06
Dual Channel video and sound installation | 16mm to DVD.

Preiss' original 8 minute film is expanded into a 340 minute epic by magnifying the hallucinatory possibilities of montages' collision and abbreviating the parameters of each shots' trajectory. The two versions of the film are situated back to back in the darkened exhibition space presenting a comparative cinema of the same series of events - jarred, however, by their temporal discrepancies. The penetrative cinema of the "long take", hypnotically presents the linear sequence of banal events in strobe-like fashion, restructuring duration in an obsessive interplay of near past and futures, rhythmically jumping around the present. Preiss' abstract cinema hovers around a thematic undercurrent of a home movie and the collaborative exhibition space/studio ORCHARD, namely Andrea Frasers' 2005 reworking of her 1991 "MAY I HELP YOU" (performed as the premier event there), setting up a partially discernible narrative structure which can be filtered out of the flicker. The double take on the same, as seen in installation, presents the viewer with a personal snapshot of an experience where the fictive confronts the recorded real and the two visions rarely (and only fleetingly) ever meet.

Text by Preiss & Reed

Jeff Preiss is a filmmaker living in New York. He graduated from the Bard College film program in 1979. During the eighties he became involved in the production of experimental cinema showing works at venues including The Collective for Living Cinema, San Francisco Cinematheque and P.S. 1 Museum. Work from this time was included in “Big as Life, a History of 8mm” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Through much of the 80s he was co-director of the pioneering Lower East Side Film series “Films Charas” and a board member of The Collective For Living Cinema. In 1995 he became a partner in the production company Epoch Films. During this period he continued to shoot experimental projects and completed a series of video installations in venues including: Musée d’art moderne de la Ville Paris, Museum Boijmans in Rotterdam, MediaCity 2000 in Seoul and The Pompidou Center. “The Embassy”, commissioned by Rem Koolhaas is currently traveling with the OMA/AMO retrospective CONTENT. Mr. Preiss is also a founding member of the experimental gallery ORCHARD in New York City where he regularly exhibits and uses as a base of production.