converSalón_40: John Price
October 26, 2024
The Arcadia Room, 680 Queen’s Quay West, Toronto
Life is eternal for five minutes by John Price
3 projector performance with live guitar
doors: 6:30pm
dinner: 7pm
performance: 8pm
Hand-processed materials fill a pair of screens in a trio of visual adventures. Portraits of a seaside, the city of Detroit, and an abandoned lighthouse offer frames for vanishing technologies and the subjects they made possible. Personal ethnographies. Limits were always the starting point. The custom amps are also home-made and hand wired, just like the silver frames running through the projectors.
“There are no secrets, just chemistry.”
John Price makes small, analog films deeply rooted in his everyday life, especially when they are filmed far away. He’s a journal keeper, both as a scribbler and collector of pictures. He used to work for years with small moments of footage to reconnect with the past’s distant shoreline. Today he prefers improvisation and temporary forms. The live moment. Screens multiplies and offers possible vantages, question marks, alternative views. The work of the hand is important, every frame has been brushed by chemicals, turned and touched. A cinema that touches back.