INDUSTRY: Recent Works by Richard Kerr – Limited Edition

INDUSTRIE / INDUSTRY Oeuvres récentes / Recent Works by Richard Kerr Edited by Brett Kashmere Part high-tech, part handmade, this unique DVD-format exhibition catalog contains two hours of audio-visual material, including three new collage films and a spellbinding slide show by the Montreal filmmaker and visual artist Richard Kerr, as well as a bonus 60-minute audio collage/radio drama by Gerstyn Hayward. Packaged in original handcrafted and painted covers, the disc is accompanied by 70 pages of critical writing, notebook drawings, production notes, photographs, exhibition documentation and related artworks, plus a pullout gallery floor plan. With essays, conversations, program notes and other texts by Gerda Johanna Cammaer, Randolph Jordan, Brett Kashmere, Michael Rollo, Astria Suparak, Bart Testa, and William C. Wees. Edition of 500, signed and numbered. Essays in English and French. Handcrafted and painted covers by rdp. DVD CONTENTS collage d’hollywood (Richard Kerr, 35mm film, 2003, 8 min) hollywood decollage (Richard Kerr, digital video, 2004, 9 min) le bombardement le port des perles (Richard Kerr, 35mm to digital video, 2004, 8 min) Demi-monde (Richard Kerr, 35mm slide show, 2004, 25 min) A Family Thing (Gerstyn Hayward, audio collage, 2004, 60 min) DVD-ROM CONTENTS: Taking Inventory / Le Grand inventaire Introduction by Brett Kashmere Notes, Drawings and Ideas for Industrie / Industry Richard Kerr Richard Kerr’s Recuperation: After Motion Pictures and Les Collages de Hollywood Essay by Bart Testa Richard Kerr’s Stilled Cinema: Instilled Visions, Distilled Revisions Essay by Gerda Johanna Cammaer Melodrama for a Dying Medium: Richard Kerr’s Adventures on the Periphery Essay by Randolph Jordan Re-making collage d’hollywood A dialogue between Brett Kashmere and Michael Rollo Stealing from the Dream Factory: Collage, Montage, Hollywood and the Avant-Garde Essay by William C. Wees TROUBLE Program notes by Astria Suparak and Brett Kashmere 2005 Telecine Editions and Concordia University ISBN: 0-9736523-0-6