The Waltham Film Factory presents Recent Works by AgX

Join us on Wednesday evening, October 19th, for the second Waltham Film Factory screening featuring local film group: AgX.

Watch works created by Boston-area filmmakers and artists who continue and flourish making analog films in the Digital Age. Expect to see films that explore and celebrate the mechanical, films that explore the history and landscape of innovation in Waltham.

Come see beautiful scenes and images projected from real analog film made using technology and traditions that extend back more than a century.

At the end of the screening, we will be presenting selected films created during our recent workshops as a preview for our upcoming 16mm filmmaking workshop on October 22nd.

AgX (pronounced A Gee Ex) is a Boston-area collective of artists who share resources, equipment, camaraderie and knowledge with a focus on the creation and appreciation of the moving image arts. Find out more about AgX at http://agxfilm.org or contact us via agx@agxfilm.org.

Tickets for this screening are just $10.

The following are examples of work by AgX member filmmakers:

"Undergrowth" by Robert Todd

Undergrowth (September 2011) 16mm 11:30 CAST: OWL Robert Todd "A blind predator dreams through its prey's eyes". The obvious predator is a Barred owl, but the film uses this a vehicle to consider the active role of the camera in image "capture". The prey is undefined, but suggested as a compendium of natural figures that the camera "captures". The film establishes visual (textural) similes between the environment and the predator, and a kenetic dialogue between the camera and its objects/subjects: gliding through the underbelly of the world, tunneling under the natural flora of a semi-urban setting, the camera establishes a presence within the Ground of Nature, counterpoint to an examination of the Figure of the Owl, whose head turns in slow drifting arcs that mimic the dance of the nature-seeing/seeking camera. The owl's blindness is revealed in extreme close-ups of the creature's cataract-encrusted eyes. Its blind state creates a stumbling block to an easy decoding of the nature-seeking footage as a representation of its own outer-directed sight, calling into question the nature of this perspective, and consequently the nature of that which is "capturing" the owl. http://roberttoddfilms.com/

"Penumbra" by Kimberly Forero-Amias

Excerpt from "Penumbra" by Kimberly Forero-Arnias, a 2013 Film & Video Fellow. Learn more about this artist at http://www.massculturalcouncil.org/gallery/artistDetail.asp?App=20133634

"Migration" by Douglas Urbank

Original sound by composer and experimental saxophonist, Jorrit Dijkstra, improvised and recorded live during a presentation of the film as part of a library concert series at Boston’s historic Church of the Advent.

Colorgram workshop at Mono No Aware by member Kathryn Ramey

ARTISTS INCLUDE: SALVATOR GANDOLFO, MONICA SAVIRON, RICHIE ABRAHAM, CATARINA PORTIN, LUISEL PENA, ZEV FAGIN, KATHRYN RAMEY