Six by Fred (1967-2023)

Fred Camper (b.1947) is a critic, known for his expertise on American avant-garde film. Here and there throughout his career—and increasingly in recent decades—he has also been an artist himself. In conjunction with WashU’s Program in Film and Media Studies, Arkadin will present five films Camper completed between 1967 and 1969, as well as a video (transferred to film) he finished just last year. The sixties works are in the experimental idiom Camper has spent much of his career advocating for, in which (to quote Camper on the genre) a film “addresses each viewer as a unique individual, speaks to him in isolation from the crowd, invites him to perceive the film according to his own particular experience and perception.” The recent work is the result of Camper’s decades mulling how moving images can achieve such an effect.

This screening is connected to an exhibition of Camper’s visual art at Parapet/Real Humans, an art gallery in Fox Park. An opening for Fred Camper: Interactions will take place at the gallery starting at 6pm.

Program:
Joan Goes to Misery (1967, 8 min, 16mm, color, sound, 24 fps)
A Sense of the Past (1967, 4 minutes, 16mm, color, silent, 16 fps)
Dan Potter (1968, 39 minutes, 16mm, color, silent, 24 fps)
Welcome to Come (1968, 3 minutes, 16mm, color, sound, 24 fps)
Bathroom (1969, 25 min, 16mm, color, silent, 24 fps)
Interactions 5: Netherlands Skies (2023, 4 min, 16mm, color, silent, 24 fps)

All films except for Interactions preserved by Chicago Film Society. Dan Potter and Bathroom preserved with the support of the National Film Preservation Foundation (NFPF). Welcome to Come and A Sense of the Past preserved through the NFPF’s Avant-Garde Masters Grant Program and the Film Foundation; funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation.

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