PREVIEW SCREENING
July 14th - 17th, 2022

A Preview Screening of our Upcoming Exhibition
Presented in the Media Room of the Minnesota Street Project as part of
THE 2022 SAN FRANCISCO ART BOOK FAIR
Minnesota Street Project, 1275 Minnesota Street, San Francisco

Thursday, July 14th, 6pm – 10pm
Friday, July 15th, 11am – 6pm
Saturday, July 16th, 11am – 6pm
Sunday, July 17th, 11am – 5pm

In contribution to the 2022 San Francisco Art Book Fair, Telematic is pleased to present Works on Paper, a preview screening of our upcoming exhibition, featuring animated films by artists working with paint, paper, drawing, cut-out collage, and sculpture to produce time-based, moving image works.

Attending to tangible materials, the films in this screening simultaneously foreground the artistic process and the labor required for their own creation.  They mark the passage of time, giving it form and meaning, as chronicles of physical change.  And they show how – with the right degree of creative imagination, thoughtful attention, and sustained physical effort – the world is open to re-invention.

As a feature of their formal experimentation, in diverse ways, the films in this screening are richly playful.  They are frequently humorous, full of wit and physical comedy.  They are surreal, oscillating between fantasy and reality, objectivity and illusion. They are musical, punctuated by syncopated rhythms.  They offer close, poetic observations, attending to the details of everyday life: city scenes, nature, shifts in light and the weather, facial expressions and relationships between people.  They are also, at times, political, deconstructing ideological illusions through fantastical, even nightmarish, explorations of history and social conflict.

Presented in the context of the book fair, these “works on paper” furthermore draw attention to the close affinities and subtle differences between the book and the film – specifically, the book and the analog animated film.  At times, the films in this screening read like presentations of artist books or zines — in fact, one might venture to say, they are — raising the question of the intersection between the two and exploring the creative potential in the liminal space between them.