Critical Writing Index

Les Absences de la photographie/The Absence of Photography

by Nicole Gingras and Claude Forget

Montréal: Cinéma Libre, 1994

ISBN 2-98018778-1-x

This international exhibition explores the curator's interest in relationships of photographic images and their transitory natures through film and video. As Nicole Gingras states, "We can talk about the transitional effects between film, photography and video. We notice how diverse the experiences put into images can be." (Quote taken from page 4 of the catalogue.) As such this exhibition thematically explores the body, place and identity through various manifestations presented by film and video artists. Some Canadian artists included are Mario Cote, Lisa Steele, Cathy Sisler, Joyce Wieland and the Women Video Workshop.

ITEM 1994.127 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

36,976 Portraits – Claus Holtz

36,976 Portraits – Hartmut Lerch

5 Tableaux 5 Paysages – Mario Côté

A Place Called Lovely – Sadie Benning

A Very Personal Story – Lisa Steeke

Aberrant Motion #1 – Cathy Sisler

Aberrant Public Speaking #1 – Cathy Sisler

Ataguttaaluk Starvation – The Women Video Workshop

Aviary Species in Soda Soup (A Study) – Tomiyo Sasaki

Birds at Sunrise – Joyce Wieland

Birthday Suit with Scars and Defects – Lisa Steele

Blue – Derek Jarman

Blue Eyes – Beth Gibson

Buena Vista – Thierry Kuntzel

Ceux Qui Ont le Pas Léger Meurent Sans Laisser de Traces – Bernard Émond

Cott el-Djerid (A Portrait in Light and Heat) – Bill Viola

Confessions of a Chameleon – Lynn Hershman

Contacts – Raymond Depardon

D'Après Meg – Vincent Grenier

Do You See What I See?/Tu Vois ce Que Je Vois? – Madelon Hooykaas

Do You See What I See?/Tu Vois ce Que Je Vois? – Elsa Stansfield

EETC – David Larcher

Endiang – Steve Cosens

Face Story – Cathy Sisler

Facing South – Lisa Steele

Fear of Blue – Tom Dean

Figure – Jacques Perron

Film – Alan Schneider

Film Stenopeico (L'Uomo Senza Machina de Presa) – Paolo Gioli

Filming Muybridge – Jean-Louis Gonnet

Finestra Avanti A Un Albero – Paolo Gioli

Fog Line – Larry Gottheim

Gaps – Laura Lefave

Gloria! – Hollis Frampton

Granny's Is – David Larcher

Histoires Parallèles – Cécile Fontaine

Home Movie – Cécile Fontaine

Inner Landscape-Insight Image – Ulrike Rosenbach

Interval – Sarah Butterfield

Jaffa Gate – Rick Raxlen

Jolicoeur Touriste – Louise Bourque

Kiri No Uta – Atushi Ogata

L'Appartement de la Rue de Vaugirard – Christian Boltanski

L'Instant et la Patience – Bernard Émond

La Desserte Blanche – Thierry Kuntzel

La Jetée – Chris Marker

Le Petite Navire – Raymond Depardon

Le Récit d'A – Esther Valiquette

Le Sphinx – Thierry Knauff

Le Voleur Vit en Enfer – Robert Morin

Le Voleur Vit en Enfer – Lorraine Dufour

Les Choses Simples – Francisco Ruiz de Infante

Les Morts de la Seine – Peter Greenaway

Les Photos d'Alix – Jean Eustache

Les Vacances du Cinéaste – Johan van der Keuken

Lettre à Freddy Buache – Jean-Luc Godard

Lumumba: la Mort du Prophète – Raoul Peck

Machete Gillette... Mama – Larry Gottheim

Maigre Dog – Donna James

Mais à Quoi Rêvent les Éperviers Qui Tournent Là-Haut en Dormant? – Josette Bélanger

Mary Lou – Kate Craig

Measures of Distance – Mona Hatoum

Memories from the Department of Amnesia – Janice Tanaka

Monodramas – Stan Douglas

Moving Pictures of Bartók – Péter Sülyi

München - Berlin Wanderung – Oskar Fischinger

Murder Research – Paul Wong

Murder Research – Ken Fletcher

nostalgia – Hollis Frampton

Notes in Origin – Ellie Epp

Nursing History – Marian McMahon

?0, Zoo! (The Making of a Fiction Film) – Philip Hoffman

On the Roof of the World – Tomiyo Sasaki

One Second in Montreal – Michael Snow

Opening Series #1 – Philip Hoffman

Opening Series #2 – Philip Hoffman

Passing Through/Torn Formations – Philip Hoffman

Quelques Scènes de la Vie Suresnoise – Michèle Waquant

Qui Hésite Se Perd – Michel Lamothe

Rain – Beth Gibson

Reassemblage – Trinh T. Minh-ha

Return to Departure: The Biography of a Painting - Or Watching Paint Dry and Other Realisms – Kirk Tougas

Robert N. – Pierre Goupil

Running Time – Madelon Hooykaas

Running Time – Elsa Stansfield

Scars – Lorna Boschman

Sequels in Transfigured Time – Al Razutis

Shimmer – Nelson Henricks

Site Recite – Gary Hill

Six Fois Deux A: Photos et Cie – Jean-Luc Godard

Six Fois Deux A: Photos et Cie – Anne-Marie Miéville

Six Fois Deux B: Marcel – Jean-Luc Godard

Six Fois Deux B: Marcel – Anne-Marie Miéville

Stagger Stories – Cathy Sisler

Still Life, A Moving Portrait – Kate Craig

Streamline – Chris Welsby

Surfacing on the Thames – David Rimmer

Sweetblood – Steve Sanguedolce

Tableau 16 – Mario Côté

Television Spots – Stan Douglas