Wednesday,
February 21 at 7pm
Opening
reception and screening
MULTIPLE
EYE: Ted Knighton’s Moving Images
February
21 – March 9
An
Exhibition of Art and Film
Six
Insects
dir.
Ted Knighton, 1999, USA, 23 mins, 16mm, b/w
Six
Insects was shown
in the 2000 Philadelphia Fringe Festival and at the Institute
of Contemporary Art in 2001 as part of their open video call
project.
Testing
dir.
Ted Knighton, 2005, USA, 19 mins, 16mm, color
Testing was shown in the 2006 Philadelphia
Film Festival, where it received an award for Best Experimental
Short Film , and was also shown at the Ann Arbor Film Festival.
 This
exhibit includes paintings, drawings and a monitor playing two
short films, Six Insects and Testing, running
together in a loop, with a sculptural moving image project as
the centerpiece. The central installation, EYE-POD, is a sculptural
“living geode” containing a non-narrative motion art piece comprised
of sequential images, each hand-drawn like an animation cell.
Knighton
has worked as a commissioned muralist, visual artist, illustrator
and unique independent filmmaker for 20 years. He sees beauty
and wonder in insects, alien forms, and curious creatures –
those strange oddities that others might dismiss as negligible
– and places their sometimes-awkward features on prominent display
in an apparent act of glorification. He explores human behavior,
making reference to our animal nature in what might be called
a parallel insect universe. In his words, “It is surprising
that the animals who most resemble us, at least when it comes
to social structure, are not apes or any sort of warm blooded
mammal, which we tend to think of as our closer relatives, but
these tiny, steely, six legged little beings. Their societies
are highly organized like nations or corporations, with workers,
soldiers, farmers, and queens.” Knighton’s films are non-narrative
and visually compelling, recording moving light, capturing fleeting
images and preserving events in time that make for a truly cinematic
experience.
Please
visit www.multipleeye.com
for more information.
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