Andrew Lampert
Andrew Lampert: Curated Experimental Films
April 13th, 2019
Winifred Moore Auditorium, Webster University (470 East Lockwood Ave. 63119)
Film program:
1964, 11 minutes, 16mm, color, sound.
1984, 14:45 minutes, video, color, sound.
1970, 19:20 minutes, video
2013, 10 minutes, 16mm, color, sound. Music by Tashi Wada featuring cellists Charles Curtis and Judith Hamann.
1989, 10 minutes, 16mm, color, sound. Featuring vocals by Shelley Hirsch
1996, 28 minutes, 16mm, black and white, sound. Score composed and performed by Wadada Leo Smith.
Andrew Lampert is at the forefront of a new generation of artists engaging with film, video and performance, revisiting and extending the dialogue around an expanded definition of cinema. Utilizing everything from 8mm film to digital projections, Lampert pursues the synergy between artist, art, and audience in a public space, especially as it pertains to cinema. He brings unscripted and chance elements into cinema’s veneer of control, and often works with found material. Originally from St. Louis, he currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. His work has been shown at the 2006 Whitney Biennial; The Getty Museum, and the British Film Institute. In addition to his work as an interdisciplinary artist, he was the Film Archivist at Anthology Film Archives in New York for over a decade, and in 2016 edited a book on Beatnik artist/avant-garde filmmaker, Harry Smith.
For this event, Lampert will curate a selection of films from the 1950’s – to present day, which incorporate or work heavily influenced by the experimental music world.
