“The Films of Marc Lafia”

Thank you MUBI Garage for the invite to present these works. Film is a recording, an event of recording.

There is a lot there to talk about but suffice it to say for now that the first clip in the series presents film as a recording, as a seeing that is extra-ordinary, that sees and thinks things we don’t. This is the beauty of all art. This seeing of what we may sense, feel or intuit and that art in its material instantiation gives us in an heighten sense.

The clips are films I love, they are recordings. recording re-recorded and re-presented side by side with other recordings, each to give sense of the other. That’s the game, the instructions. One clip narrates the other and vice versa.

Marc Lafia works in computation and the network, and in installation, single and multi channel video and photographic works of different scale. He has exhibited films at Rotterdam, Seattle, San Francisco, and other international Film Festivals and shown new media works, the Memex Engine and Ambient Machines at ZKM, The Walker Art Center and SF MOMA. A recent 4 screen computational video installation, Sing to Me and Tell Me Your Story is being shown at the Holon Digital Art Lab in Israel for the Video Biennale this fall. Variable Montage will be exhibited in the Future Cinema exhibit at ZKM.

Marc is also founder and information architect of the highly acclaimed ArtandCulture.com which allows for the experiential, contextual and associative exploration of the arts. He is currently teaching in the graduate departments of Stanford University and the San Francisco Art Institute.