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Towards a Vanishing Point

Chris Kennedy

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Staff Picks Towards a Vanishing Point
Chris Kennedy
2012

8 Minutes

Staff Picks

Date
August 1–31, 2023

Footage shot in Coba, Mexico and the Siwa Oasis in Egypt and a found film from California serve as inspiration for a series of sketches on the notion of the vanishing point.

Commissioned for LIFT’s 30th Anniversary Celebration.

Towards a Vanishing Point is presented on e-flux Film alongside lay claim to an island (2009), 349 (for Sol LeWitt) (2011), and The Initiation Well (2020) as the August 2023 edition of the monthly series Staff Picks featuring Chris Kennedy.

For more information, contact program@e-flux.com.

Category
Film
Subject
Experimental Film, Video Art, Conceptual & Post-Conceptual Art
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Chris Kennedy (b. Maryland) is an independent filmmaker, film programmer, and writer based in Toronto. He is the Executive Director of the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT). His short experimental films have screened at over one hundred film festivals worldwide and have been featured in solo shows at the Los Angeles Film Forum, Nam June Paik Art Center, the La Plata Semana del Film Experimental, the Pacific Film Archive, and Container, Brisbane. His film Watching the Detectives won the Ken Burns Award for the Best of the Festival at the Ann Arbor Film Festival in 2018. His work as an artist and programmer operates in dialogue with the history of film as art, exploring the medium’s materiality in a contemporary context.

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