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Presented by SF Cinematheque at The Lab.
I don’t have much interest in shooting something clearly and showing it on screen. I’m thinking about the imagination in our brain: we say we have memory and we have images, but I don’t believe the images we have in our imagination and in our brain are so clear, it’s something very, very complicated… like dust, that sometimes looks like an image but it’s actually not one. I have a very big interest for the image of dreams and imagination itself. I think we have a very complicated set of beautiful images in our brain. So I’m trying to approach that kind of image. I make a lot of layers, but each layer still survives as a memory… and when we watch the image we can select how to watch it accordingly to our own imagination, our own relationship between the film and our brain. That’s why I use the technique of the layer and the abstract image. (Makino Takashi interviewed by Nicole Remy and José Sarmiento-Hinojosa; Desistfilm September 1, 2019)
In work spanning nearly twenty-five years, film/video artist Makino Takashi has mastered the art of superimposition and amorphous abstraction, creating infinitely layered walls of light, immersively oceanic experiences situated at indeterminate points between screen the mind’s eye. In his first Bay Area appearance since 2019, Takasi appears in person to present Microcosmos, Anti-Cosmos and Untitled, a trio of pandemic-era pieces (which include forays into surrealist-inspired graphic collage and spoken word) and the slow-rolling and stirringly emotional 2024 work Constellation, to be presented by live electronics by Makino Takashi himself.
Hallucinatory and experiential, Makino creates abstract cinematic worlds immersing the viewer like a grain of emulsion free falling in the corporeality of image forming materials. (Unconscious Archives, London)
SCREENING:
Microcosmos (2021) by Makino Takashi; digital video, color, sound, 12 minutes. Exhibition file from the maker.
Untitled (March 2020–June 2020) (2020) by Makino Takashi; digital video, color, sound, 21 minutes. Exhibition file from the maker.
Anti-cosmos (2022) by Makino Takashi; digital video, color, sound, 16 minutes. Exhibition file from the maker.
Constellation (2024) by Makino Takashi; digital video, color, sound, 21 minutes. Exhibition file from the maker.
Screening presented by San Francisco Cinematheque. Full details here.
TRT: 70 minutes