MARVELOUS MOVIE MONDAYS!!
guest curator: Scott Fitzpatrick

Good evening friends of Echo Park Film Center and welcome back for another installment of Marvelous Movie Mondays. The theme for July has been “POST-FILM” – material films made entirely without the use of photochemical processes. Tonight we have a special treat, as this movie isn’t usually available online, but I have permission to share it with you for the rest of the month (i think!) .. “The Return to The Return to Reason,” by super-rad filmmaker Sabine Gruffat, is “a scratch film for the 21st century”. For this piece a digital laser engraver was used to meticulously etch every frame of Man Ray’s seminal 1923 film “Le Retour à la Raison (A Return to Reason)” – the first instance of the Rayogram – onto 35mm black leader, and the result is mesmerizing. I like this movie next to Libi Striegl’s piece I shared last week, because they both explore really cool, unexpected technological collisions. Hope you enjoy too !

https://vimeo.com/134036298

It is July, cinefriends! Each month, we bring in a new film/video artist to take us on a month-long cinematic journey on a theme of their choice in our online-only screening series, MARVELOUS MOVIE MONDAYS!! We are excited to welcome to the curatorial helm for the month of July……

SCOTT FITZPATRICK!!

Scott is a visual artist (Libra) from YWG, whose film and video work has screened at underground festivals and marginalized venues worldwide. He studied film theory and production at the University of Manitoba and began conducting lo-fi moving image experiments in 2010. Primarily a filmmaker, he is also invested in photography, re-photography, kaleidoscope, and collage.

Places with Meaning from Scott Fitzpatrick on Vimeo.