Imaginary Landscapes: Recent works by DAN BROWNE
Factory Media Centre is proud to present the work of Toronto-based filmmaker, photographer and media artist DAN BROWNE.
Browne has been producing films and videos for over 10 years that examine our contemporary relationships to technological and natural environments through densely kinetic audio-visual patterned forms. His most recent video works traverse the fertile territories and intersections between cinema, video installation, music, photography, painting and poetry and have been presented in a range of venues, including festivals, concerts, galleries, and public spaces.
For his first-ever solo show, Browne will present a selection of his recent works in person, followed by a unique two-hour live performance of “memento mori”, featuring musician collaborators Dan Driscoll and Steve Richman, that will rework material from the film to create an astonishing and singular live cinematic event.
Dan Browne (b. 1982) is a Toronto-based filmmaker, videographer, photographer and multimedia artist whose films have screened at over fifty festivals and venues internationally, including the National Film Board, TIFF Cinematheque, Rotterdam International Film Festival, Centre Pompidou and Diagonal Film Archives (Seoul). His 2012 film “memento mori” received the Jury Prize for Best Canadian Work at WNDX Festival of Moving Image, First Prize (Experimental Category) at Athens International Film + Video Festival, and the Deluxe Cinematic Vision Award at Images Festival. Dan has also collaborated with many other filmmakers, including Carl Brown, Peter Mettler, Michael Snow, and members of the Loop Collective. He holds an Honours BFA in film from Ryerson’s School of Image Arts and an MA in the York/Ryerson Communication and Culture program, where he is currently pursing his doctoral studies. Dan is also a curator and organizer with the Loop Collective, which promotes an interdisciplinary approach to cinema through examining its connections with other artistic forms.
Program:
7pm interspace | 2015, 50 minutes, HD video, colour, sound; Music by Dan Driscoll. Followed by a Q&A and intermission.
Inner and outer realms collide in this audio-visual meditation on the surfaces of perception, as a wide range of archival materials from early Edison films to contemporary satellite images are deployed through a process of improvisation with live image-mixing software, conjuring an extended hallucinatory space-time journey. World premiere.
8pm numbers | 2011, 1 minute 42 sec, SD video, colour, silent
numbers was created during a trip to Manhattan, where I caught my selfreflection in a glass door that read ‘41’ after having photographed the number 42 earlier that day, and had to keep hunting until I found everything else between 1 and 100.
Nude descending (After Duchamp) | 2013, 2 minutes, HD video, colour, silent
A video reconstruction of Marcel Duchamp’s 1912 painting, Nu descendant un escalier n° 2, that updates the work’s inter-media and temporal concerns from painting to cinema into a contemporary frame.
tapestry | 2013, 2 minutes, HD video, colour, silent
A gift from a malfunctioning drive that generated an array of patterns out of the depths of the machine subconscious, incorporating portions of unrelated footage to form a fractured dance of pixels, squares and grids.
Grid07 | 2013, 4 min 39 sec, HD video, colour, silent
part of a larger series of video painting works that remix other materials through mapping patterns of Cartesian grid coordinates. Dots and lines are subverted into clouds and twisted forms, particles and waves blur in cycling movements that oscillate between surface and depth.
pastoral | 2014, 10 minutes, HD video, colour, sound
perceptions of an earth-bound garden; a finite paradise of colour and sensation. Originally shot in Bellevue park, toronto in 2007, pastoral utilizes a wide range of digital processes that transform organic forms into a hybrid synthesis of tactile superimpositions.
Alberta | 2014, 2 minutes 50 sec, HD video, colour, silent
travels made in Banff and Jasper national parks, Alberta.
poem (version) | 2015, 3 minutes 45 sec, HD video, colour, sound; Music by steve richman.
An ode to my daily environment, and the presences of two beings – one newly arrived, the other recently departed.
9pm LIVE PERFORMANCE: memento mori | 2012, 28 minutes, HD video, colour, sound
Featuring Dan Browne (live video mix), Dan Driscoll & Steve Richman (music)
A meditation on (im)mortality, mediated by a lifetime’s compendium of images, memento mori is a layered time-lapse exploration of the total photographs captured over the course of a lifetime – over 120,000 in total. this all-seeing archive is blended into permutations and combinations of subjects, objects, percepts, dreams, and experiences, to form an encyclopaedic index of the possibilities of sight.
An intuitive, improvised response to the original work, translating it into rhizomatic form as materials are reworked, re-sampled and remixed in real time. Distorted sine waves, shortwave radio transmissions, field recordings, voice, granular synthesis, and dub FX compositions interact alongside a deconstruction of the film’s images that will transform the piece from a static recording into a live transmission.
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