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Opening Titles is a seasonal screening series exhibiting film and video works in unconventional loca film or theatrical vs. private.

From its birth the motion picture experience has been more or less tailored with the traditional cinema in mind. The cinema that we all grew up knowing, sharing collective dreams with a room full of strangers. That certain cinema with rows of seats, padded walls and the aroma of popcorn. The rapid changes and threat to both that theatrical venue and the medium of celluloid itself often yields only

to the industrial topics of digital vs. Yet if we look to other mediums of artistic expression, it’s apparent and natural that we haven’t confined music to the gramophone, dance to the stage, or painting to the canvas. So rather than progress the moving image experience solely through viewership trends and technological advancements, one must wonder if we can reconsider how we define and treat the very medium in the first place. Have we imprisoned the moving image as we know it from its own evolution? What do we lose or displace when we watch a classic 70MM spectacle on a laptop? Can screening a film be as creative as making one? With a playful and open mind, we’d like to discover experiences between moving image and spectator yet to be had. What we are is a seasonal screening series, but one that thrives on conceptual thinking and lack of consistent location. With each new exhibition, the key shifting element will be the venue itself; each venue a place you'd least expect a film to be shown. Inspired by traditions of site-specificity, both newly commissioned and existing film and video works from artists of all backgrounds will be curated based on prompts that interrogate the themes of the screening location. The places may be something as intimate as the garage of a family yard sale to the vastness of open nature. Our hope is to encourage a restless cinema, immersing audiences in a multilayered experience of social exploration, geographical learning and a new sense of wonder in the “moviegoing” experience. To blur the lines between private and public, theatrical and gallery. To challenge whether the medium and its content is transformed and defined by the context its placed in. What better place to bring people on this journey, than in New York City? Opening Titles is created and curated by Matt Jay and John Zhao.

12/12/2014

Documentation of our Summer 2014 show with Rose Dickson and Uri Shapira is up on our website:

09/25/2014

a huge thanks to the artists, friends, and strangers who came to visit the films. see you later for our fall and winter edition!

09/17/2014

Randy Walker's newest short film "Open Mouth" made its way from Seattle International Film Fest to its premiere on NoBudge - check it out.
http://nobudge.com/

Watch and Discover True Indie Films. Curated indie films online.

08/26/2014

The latest from Hannah Ford- "The more she feels dead inside... the more YouTube hits."

Making Memes in 16mm (i.e. no longer being culturally relevant) In December 2013 I made a film about Terry Richardson’s Wrecking Ball music video whilst on exchange…

05/16/2014

If you missed out on Spring 2014, artists Hannah Ford and Emelie Westerlund have made their film "him" available to watch online!

A film for Opening Titles' Spring 2014 show in NYC - A collaboration with Emelie Westerlund.

05/06/2014

Final month to visit the first solo museum exhibition in New York of the San Francisco-based artist Jim Campbell , who is best known for his evocative low resolution works. This career-spanning exhibition features over 20 works, ranging from early experimental film, interactive works, and low-resolution videos to large-scale installations. An innovator in the use of technology, Campbell integrates and manipulates computers and custom electronics into visually arresting artworks.

http://www.movingimage.us/exhibitions/2014/03/21/detail/jim-campbell-rhythms-of-perception/

04/28/2014

spring is over- much thanks. see you this summer...

04/24/2014

On view this weekend at Spring 2014 is "You Ripped It It's Broke Now We Can't Sell It", a new film by Randy Walker commissioned for Opening Titles.

Ray Carney described Walker's 2006 film "Apart From That" as "a work that, both in its form and content, is organized entirely differently from a conventional film. The universe is a fragmented, cubistic one where characters' identities won't be reduced to cinematic sound bites and their relationships with each other keep shifting and changing."

Trailer for the 2006 feature film APART FROM THAT written and directed by ForeignAmerican Pictures.

04/23/2014

Filmmaker/Artist Sam Kuhn debuts a new video this weekend at Spring 2014, "Real Statues".

In 2011, Kuhn directed "In Search of The Miraculous", a 16mm short film inspired by Dutch conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader's notorious disappearance at sea.

ERIC JENSEN DAIVA ZALNIERIUNAS MICHAEL HARMON and MARTA KING directed by SAMUEL KUHN producer AUSTIN WILL executive producer ADAM SALTZMAN photographed by…

04/22/2014

Barry Jenkins' early short film "My Josephine" (2003) is on view this weekend at Spring 2014.

Check out Jenkins' "Remigration" (2011), another lyrical work centered on a family in near future San Francisco, fusing the exploration of social issues and speculative science fiction.

Upon returning to their countryside cabin one day, Kaya, his wife Helen, and their daughter Naomi are confronted by two suited men: representatives of the San Francisco Remigration Program. The men explain that San Francisco is now occupied entirely by the wealthy class.

04/21/2014

Artists Hannah Ford and Emelie Westerlund premiere "Him", a newly commissioned film for Opening Titles this weekend at Spring 2014.

Check out Hannah's "Close" (2013) - a film exploring dual realities and identities with references to Vertigo, Funny Face and A Streetcar Named Desire using a combination of live action, green screen and found footage.

Close as an adjective suggests intimacy, whilst as a verb seeks to shut out.

Screened in the group show, 50 in a Room at DNA Hub in Glasgow, May 2013

01/28/2014

Legendary experimental filmmaker Michael Snow has an exhibition of lesser seen unmoving images opening at the Philadelphia Museum of Art - we're planning on making the drive down, and suspect you will want to too!

Conceived in close collaboration with Michael Snow—one of the most important experimental filmmakers of his generation—this exhibition is a focused survey of the Canadian artist’s photography-based work, which has not been the subject of a solo museum exhibition in the United States since the 1970s....

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