Saturday October 28, 2023 at 8 PM
Doors at 7:30 pm

AUTOMATA presents: Title (un)titled;  the films of Julie Murray

Threshold to Threshold is pleased to present the work of artist-filmmaker Julie Murray.

Starting as a fine art painter, over the years Murray has expanded her art-making to mixed media assemblages, sound art, and fine art films.  Since the 1990s when Murray began making films, her painterly  sensibility has permeated her approach and lies behind an extraordinarily unique style: poetic, philosophical, visceral. In her films, one can sense the intimate relationship between the medium and the artist through her tactile and articulated body/camera movements.  Murray is also an artist who continuously develops and expands her vocabulary, including in-camera editing, collage, rephotographing  images, scanning film strips and more. These techniques serve to reveal the artist’s thinking and creative process. 

Among the many films Murray has made we can only select a small number to show for this event. On this program we will see seven works, including a  35mm video hybrid END REEL, two 16mm films, If You Stand With Your Back to the Slowing of the Speed of Light in Water and LINE OF APSIDES, a super 8mm film presented on video, ROOT PULL, and some digital works, including, Our eyes are armed, but we are strangers to the stars, DETROIT PARK, and 1162017 Kalona Barn Sales, IA. Note: we will watch the two 16mm films on film. 

It is going to be a very special evening. We are excited to invite you to stay with us after the screening to have a conversation with Julie. Hope to see you there.

Advance tickets are encouraged.

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About the artist:

Drawing upon her background in Fine Arts, filmmaker Julie Murray makes short experimental works in digital and film media which are poetical in nature, engaging the textural imprints and limits of the form as an essential element of pictorial content.

Her film and digital works have been exhibited at numerous national and international venues including the New York Film Festival, the Hong Kong International Film Festival and the International Film Festival Rotterdam. She teaches at Calarts in the School of Film Video.

Artist’s Website:

https://julifilm.org/

This program is curated by Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu as part of the Threshold to Threshold film series.

This program is supported, in part, by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs , Los Angeles County Arts and Culture, and the California Arts Council.