About

'In this moving tribute to her friend and colleague Shirley Clarke, Donna Cameron brilliantly uses collage to fashion a focused but dizzying trip through...'Our Time'...while creating a personal, affectionate portrait of Clarke. The home movies of Clarke's childhood are the idyllic centre of the piece, but Cameron constructs a disruptive world through found footage that envelops the core images. The result is stunning and startling.' Museum of Modern Art

Screens with the following shorts by Shirley Clarke:

A Scary Time 1960

'Clarke started her narrative career with this little-seen short produced by UNICEF to promote their Halloween charity drive. Clarke deviates from the expected by comparing the close-ups of the "scary" children in Halloween costumes to troubling images of sick and emaciated children in third-world countries. It was so effective, that the film was banned for many years.' Film Studies Centre, The University of Chicago

24 Frames per Second 1977

'24 Frames per Second was created for the series "The Poetic Eye: 1929 to 1977" which was curated by Bill Moritz at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in 1977. The film was the first film Shirley had made in ten years, her twenty-fourth film overall and she dedicated it to her good friend Fereydoon Hoveyda. She considered it one of her "gift" films—films she made for special friends on special occasions—and was the first "gift" film she made sure she had a print of herself; the film was a gift to both Bill Moritz and Ron Haver. This short film is comprised of twenty-four different Persian miniatures from the LACMA collection set to Middle Eastern music. In a note to Hoveyda, Shirley said to "enjoy the beauty of the image—the rhyming of the music—the result a gay and giddy song." The film is a blur of colourful Persian images matched to equally lively music that breeze past the viewer only occasionally pausing on one of the images to give the viewer a chance to catch their breath.' Wisconsin Centre for Film and Theatre Research

Ages 18+