Barron Sherer

Jean-Luc Godard's Visual Work: 28 Fragments - Notes - e-flux Ethan Spigland on Jean-Luc Godard's visual art

Jean-Luc Godard's Visual Work: 28 Fragments - Ethan Spigland

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64-year-old San Francisco film institution in financial jeopardy As federal funding dries up, the nonprofit may lay off its two-person staff.

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at long last I found my Halloween fit.

Eternalisms of the Nervous System: Ken Jacobs (1933–2025) - Notes - e-flux Lukas Brasiskis remembers influential avant-garde filmmaker Ken Jacobs, who died this month.

Eternalisms of the Nervous System: Ken Jacobs (1933–2025) - Lukas Brasiskis

www.e-flux.com/notes/678340...

Random Notes On The Conventional Narrative Film | Chute Film Coop

Blog post that critiques the invisible rules of narrative cinema as they generally erase visual complexity to make stories feel “real.”

www.chutecoop.com/writings/ran...

Heretical Heuristics: J. Hoberman and Ken Jacobs Explain the Movi-verse Film Comment Selects Interview: J. Hoberman and Ken Jacobs on multiple projections.

Going through my Ken Jacobs file I found this 2012 conversation. It was organized by Violet Lucca who was also responsible for the pedagogical projection alluded to in our talk. (The picture below is so far as I know the only record of the event.)

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Spectacular Jasper (2025), at CATS! The Exhibition at Bridge Red Studios/Project Space 9/28.

South Florida artists works exploring the cultural and aesthetic presence of felines across diverse media.

Benefits Humane Society/Greater Miami Opens Sun, 9/28, 4–6 pm Bridge Red Studios, North Miami

Kodak Enhances Vision3 Kodak's redesign of its Vision3 film stock removes the disposable, carbon-based remjet backing and replaces it with an advanced anti-halation technology.

Remjet meet dustbin

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The Close-Up - Notes - e-flux Béla Balázs on close-up in early cinema

“Béla Balázs’s “The Close‑Up,” a text first written in 1924 and later revisited in 1930. In it, Balázs advances a foundational idea: the close‑up is cinema’s distinctive device...” www.e-flux.com/notes/678338...

Three 16mm film prints in cans and stacked on a table.

New prints for Canyon Cinema

new film prints from CineLab Boston for the two-channel short

Barron Sherer, Sketch No. 2, Fire Station No. 9, 2024, Two-Channel 16mm, Color, Sound, 2:00

Barron Sherer, Deering Estate Micro Study, 2025, 16mm transferred to digital, Color, Silent, 00:25

The Stillness That Burns: Inside the World of Bill Viola A journey through Bill Viola’s work, where time slows down and video becomes a sacred space for emotion, ritual, and transformation.

The Stillness That Burns: Inside the World of Bill Viola - Fakewhale LOG

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yep! unpaywalled:

Colectivo Los Ingrávidos - e-flux

"Teocalli" and "Coyote", a diptych of films by the Mexican film collective, Colectivo Los Ingrávidos

June 1-30 at e-flux Film STREAMING
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The Books that Influence Hito Steyerl As her new book Medium Hot hits the shelves, the artist shares her essential reads – a toolkit for resisting today’s wave of authoritarian tech

"These recommendations form a solid base with which to face the current wave of authoritarian tech bullshit, including the idea that there is or was ever anything inherently democratic in it." - Hito Steyerl

Jasper Johns with flag-related works

Photo of artist Jasper Johns with target-related artworks

On Jasper Johns's 95th birthday - he was born on this day in 1930 - a thread with some of my favorite images & ephemera related to the artist. To start, two pictures of him with some of his most iconic works, both taken by photographer Dan Budnik in 1958

The editing is spectacular in this video.

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The further classic Hollywood recedes, the more mythic its avatars appear. Alex Horwath’s erudite, entertaining 3-hour meta-biopic more than makes the case for Fonda’s centrality in the American imaginary—what Norman Mailer called the nation’s dream life.

I always wanted the first American Pope to be Father Guido Sarducci.

Dara Birnbaum on video art and media critique - Notes - e-flux …

Dara Birnbaum’s 1985 essay, “Talking Back to the Media” republished at e-flux Notes

There’s awesome WTVJ footage of him racing a Corvette convertible circa 1957 from downtown Miami across the MacArthur Causeway, Alton Road flyover in route to Mt Sinai Hospital to help with a blood transfusion of a snake bite victim.

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Bill Haast was bit by deadly snakes about 172 times from the 40s through the Mid 80s en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ha...

In Loving Memory of Dara Birnbaum (1946–2025) We are deeply saddened to announce the passing of Dara Birnbaum (1946–2025), a trailblazing figure in video and media art....

Media Artist Dara Birnbaum has passed away.

The Art of Staying Sad: Chris Isaak’s Singular Path A Primer on Chris Isaak, American Original and Genuine Eccentric.

NEW: A primer on Chris Isaak & what makes him a great artist. Filled with links to rare CD+G videos, unreleased demos & the writing is solid too! If you want a way "in to" Isaak or want someone to just convincingly sell his underrated brilliance...I tried!

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installation shot of a Barron share artwork, Doh!Ville. it’s a 16 mm, two channel looping projection of the implosion of the Deauville Hotel at Miami Beach, Florida

this is a digital recording of a 16 mm projection. The image is a sign at an abandoned building in the Little Haiti neighborhood in Miami, Florida.

this is two old style analog monitors on a floor in an art gallery as part of an installation by Barron Sherer each monitor features images from the local area, Miami, Florida shot on 16mm from 2021-2024

Hope you take a moment and check out the new essay by Alexandra Martinez about recent Rosemarie Chiarlone and Barron Sherer solo exhibitions at Under The Bridge and Bridge Red. Let me know what you think. The essay is posted at the @dimensionsvariable JOURNAL site

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