For immediate release: September
26, 2005
Contact: Claire Salvi (claire@re-voir.com)
Tel +33-8-73.86.47.00
The
Film Gallery is proud to announce its presence at the
FIAC
2005 Future Quake
Stand A21 Hall 5-1 October 6-10.
Cinema is an art, for GodÕs sake!
Maurice Lemaitre
The first art gallery
devoted exclusively to experimental cinema, film and artist videos, The Film
Gallery will promote fine art cinema displayed in its original format, and
specifically in 16mm, in the context of this international contemporary art
event.
The Film
Gallery artists work essentially with the medium of cinema or explore
it through other forms (drawing, photography, objects, sculpturesÉ). On the
edge between various forms of experimentation, they interweave with other
fields such as visual art (Jeff Scher, Paul Sharits) and poetry (Peter Rose)
and many of them have participated in multidisciplinary art movements: Dada
(Hans Richter, Viking Eggeling), Letterism (Maurice Lemaitre) or Fluxus (Jonas
Mekas, Yoko Ono, Takahiko IimuraÉ).
By presenting these works at the
FIAC, we hope to give, or give back, a place to filmmakers in the field of
contemporary art and to allow films to be recognized as art.
ARTISTS IN THE FILM
GALLERY GROUP SHOW:
Alexander Alexeieff, Patrick Bokanowski, Robert Breer, Viking
Eggeling, Takahiko Iimura, Fluxus, Maurice
Lemaitre, Jonas Mekas, D.A. Pennebaker, Hans Richter, Peter Rose, Jeff Scher, Moira
Tierney.
The Film Gallery
was inaugurated September 10th, 2005 in the Marais, the district of
Paris famous for its galleries and art museums. The Gallery was created
by Re:Voir Video Editions, publisher and distributor of classic avant-garde and
contemporary art films founded by Pip Chodorov in 1994. The gallery is devoted
to the display, distribution and sale of art cinema, experimental film and
video. The complete inventory of the Re:Voir catalogue is available for
purchase as well as major titles on experimental
cinema worldwide in book, magazine and video form.
18 rue de Saintonge Ð 75003
Paris Ð France
tel: 08 73 86 47 00 Ð fax: 01
40 22 60 83