Jan 16 - May 23: Bruce Conner's digital three-screen version of Cosmic Ray exhibited at the museum; here it's titled "Three Screen Ray." A few other Conner films are screened digitally in a program called "The Singles," over the next few months.
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In Bruce Conner's electric THREE
SCREEN RAY(2006), a new acquisition premiering in this exhibition, Ray
Charles's 1959 hit song "What'd I Say" is set to an ecstatic,
frenzied collage -- nude women, bomb explosions, fireworks -- of original and
preexisting imagery. A tour de force of experimental film techniques, the piece
features Conner's manipulations of the film surface and his signature use of
countdown leader. The work's central image is Conner's 1961 film COSMIC
RAY, which he adapted to three screens in 1965 and later reedited to create
this gallery installation of three video projections. A rotating series of
"singles," or single-channel video works from the SFMOMA
collection, is presented in an adjoining gallery.
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