[Oct 23-25] Andrew Demirjian: I Tremble with Anticipation

I Tremble With Anticipation is a poetic experimental film made from a database of over 500 subtitled still images of foreign language movies.. The work features meticulously selected frames that are orchestrated into a narrative, juxtaposing gesture, light and setting, creating a new dialog across films.. Instead of “moving images” the piece is moving sounds across the three-dimensional listening field with an immersive 5.1 soundtrack written by the filmmaker.

[Oct 23-25] Andrew Demirjian: I Tremble with Anticipation (Advanced Screening)

Andrew Demirjian
Thursday, Oct.. 23rd 2014 7 – 9 pm
Friday, Oct.. 24th 2014 7 – 9 pm
Saturday, Oct.. 25th 2014 1 – 5 pm

Location:
Harvestworks
596 Broadway, #602 | New York, NY 10012 | Phone: 212-431-1130
Subway: F/M/D/B Broadway/Lafayette, R Prince, 6 Bleecker

demirjian4I Tremble With Anticipation is a poetic experimental film made from a database of over 500 subtitled still images of foreign language movies.. The work features frames from luminary directors like Chantal Ackerman, Tsai Ming-liang, Sergei Parajanov, Margarethe Von Trotta and over 25 others meticulously selected by the artist.

These visual fragments are orchestrated into a narrative, juxtaposing gesture, light, setting, and costume, creating a new dialog across films.. Instead of “moving images” the piece is moving sounds across the three-dimensional listening field with an immersive 5.1 soundtrack written by the filmmaker.. I Tremble with Anticipation is at once homage to the history of film and a radical realignment of sonic and visual cinematic conventions.

The screening will be taking place in the state of the art Harvestworks surround sound audio studio and will be accompanied by an installation in the Harvestworks lobby of related works created during the artist residency.

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Andrew Demirjian

Andrew Demirjian is an artist who uses databases, computer programming and audiovisual production to explore relationships between consciousness and environment.. The pieces use juxtaposition and categorization in place of traditional narrative arcs and experiment with reconfiguring conventions between the aural and visual in popular media.. The work takes the form of single-channel videos, installation and live performance.

demirjian2Andrew’s work has been featured at Rush Arts, White Box gallery, LMAK Projects, Eyebeam, The Roger Smith Hotel and The Center for Book Arts in Manhattan.. Andrew Demirjian received a 2013 Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a Fellowship from the MacDowell Colony, a Puffin Foundation Grant, an Artslink grant and has been awarded artist residencies at Eyebeam Art and Technology Center, LMCC Swing Space, The Clocktower Gallery, Djerassi, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, and Diapason Gallery.. Andrew received his MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College and he is a professor at Monmouth University teaching courses in media production and theory.

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