Marienbad
I wanted to make something that would serve as a visual accompaniment to Julia Holter’s song “Marienbad”, but would not be strictly tied to it. I utilized multiple film projections interacting and interfering with one another in a single composition. The material seen in this video was made with Kodak Tri-X regular 8 mm motion picture film and Kodak Plus-X 35 mm still film, all of it processed by hand. The video is a single take documenting a live performance using two 8 mm projectors and a single 35 mm projector all aimed at the same space on a screen; there is no digital manipulation of the images, and no edits have been made to the recording. Rick Bahto – January, 2012
Film / photography / projector performance by Rick Bahto.
Many thanks to Walter Vargas for digital documentation.
Between Here and There performance on Ear Meal, October 2011
Below is the video documentation of a half hour performance of my on-going project Between Here and There, for 35mm slides and cassette tapes, on the Ear Meal series. The piece was first performed for 6 hours in Liz Kotz’s kitchen as part of the Dog Star Orchestra, Volume 7 program A Few Rooms Around Town on July 11, 2011.
Video from the wulf. @ MOCA performances, July 2011
Video from the wulf. @ MOCA performance recently added to Youtube.
On July 3, 2011, MOCA Sunday Studio invited downtown experimental arts organization the wulf. to organize an afternoon of performances and interactive sound pieces in the museum in order to highlight the use of sound in the exhibition William Leavitt: Theater Objects. For 3 hours, 32 composers and performers associated with the wulf. transformed the permanent collection, Reading Room, ARCO Court and Sculpture Plaza with 20 different performances and installations ranging from an accordion octet to a dry ice percussion ensemble.
Featuring performances and pieces by Casey Anderson, Dicky Bahto, Matt Barbier, Ezra Buchla, Eric KM Clark, Scott Cazan, Daniel Corral, Corey Fogel, Carlos Inderhees, Heather Lockie, Liam Mooney, Larry Polansky, Alan Nakagawa, Wolfgang von Schweinitz, Mark So, Laura Steenberge, Luke Storm, Christine Tavolacci, Tashi Wada, Colin Wambsgans, Michael Winter and Harris Wulfson.
More information about the the wulf. can be found at thewulf.org
Video by Benjamin Rodkin.
January 27-29, 2012. The 8 Fest, Toronto.
The 8 Fest
all screenings at Trash Palace, 89-B Niagara Street (Just west of Bathurst) Toronto
Tickets $5 per event/$25 festival pass
more info: the8fest (at) gmail.com
The 8 Fest is showing my film For Pablo Valencia on Sunday, January 29, 2012 at 9 pm in the Bagerooooo, five! Part 2 program of recent small-gauge films. Also in the festival are works by four young artists in the Origins class at Echo Park Film Center in the Spring of 2011, of which I was one of the teachers. Caleb Miller’s film soledad ocultada is in the Bagerooooo, five! Part 1 program Friday night at 11 pm, Chloe Reyes’ film A Celebration of Corn is in the Adventures in Animationland program Saturday night at 11 pm, and Hayley Elliott’s Solar Flares and James Noel’s Past and Present, both double projection pieces, are on the final program Sunday at 9 pm. Also happy of course to see films by friends new and old on the program, including Jason Halprin, Pixie Cram, Robbie Land, and Paul Clipson.
October 27, 2011. LA AIR II: Rick Bahto. Los Angeles.
Thursday, October 27, 2011.
LA AIR II: Rick Bahto
Echo Park Film Center. 1200 N. Alvarado St (at Sunset). 90026.
8 pm. $5.
LA AIR is a new artist-in-residence program that invites Los Angeles filmmakers to utilize EPFC resources in creating a new work over a four-week period. October’s resident, Rick Bahto, has an on-going series of films that are made in response to the work of other artists. During his residency, he will complete a project For Paul Clipson, dealing with aspects of the expansive body of Super 8 work from the filmmaker of that name. The screening will present this portion of Bahto’s films alongside the work of the artists to whom they are dedicated, with films and slide documentation of works by Karen Johannesen, Pablo Valencia, and Paul Clipson. He will also present films, slides, and audio documents of performances of the work of Mark So, including documentary footage of his performance of So’s work parallel to the earth (in the angles where the grass writing goes on), which was begun in mid-September and will continue on indefinitely.
Program includes: For Paul Clipson, For Karen Johannesen, For Pablo Valencia, For Bill Jenkins, Performing marmarth, and Monument Valley by Rick Bahto; Chorus by Paul Clipson; 76 Station and Pink Opaque by Karen Johannesen; Films I & II by Pablo Valencia; slides documenting work by Bill Jenkins, Pablo Valencia, and Mark So.
October 21–23, 2011. Chicago 8: A Small Gauge Film Festival.
October 21–23, 2011.
Chicago 8: A Small Gauge Film Festival.
I have films in the 9:30 pm program on Saturday and the 6:30 pm program on Sunday. Full program listings below the cut. Read the rest of this entry »
October 12, 2011: Ear Meal.
Wednesday, October 12
9:30–10 pm
http://laartstream.com/ear-meal/
$–your monthly internet bill
EAR MEAL, a sound art webcast, hosts my performance of Between Here & There.
October 2, 2011. Mark So & Rick Bahto: slides & sides
2 october 2011 (sun)
the wulf. (1026 s santa fe #203, la, ca 90021/$0
8pm – midnight
rick bahto & mark so | still lifes, donuts, twice around, palms.
(slides & sides)
September 18, 2011. Los Angeles Road Concerts. Sunset Blvd.
Sunday, September 18, 2011, Los Angeles Road Concerts presents:
Road Concert on Sunset Boulevard: site-specific works along the entire length of Sunset Blvd
11 am – 7 pm
A portion of my ongoing performance of Mark So’s parallel to the earth (In the angles where the grass writing goes on) intersects the route of this event, where Sunset Blvd. passes over Myra Ave. At some point during the road concert, I will add to my film Monument Valley, which documents the performance.
More info on the event… Read the rest of this entry »
