Cory Arcangel: Untitled Translation Exercise

, English, 2006

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Sun 9 December 2007 // 19:30 / Cinema

New York-based artist Cory Arcangel will give a special performance / lecture at Star and Shadow Cinema on Sunday 9 December 4:00pm followed by a UK film premiere of a new work at 7:30pm.7.30pm FILM: FREE Cory Arcangel presents 'Untitled Translation Exercise'. Cory often hacks popular culture moving images, and this project is no different: the script for the film Dazed and Confused was sent to an executive assistant outsourcing firm in India where the assistants were instructed to read the different parts and record their performances. The results were then painstakingly dubbed with the original motion picture. As a viewer watches the feature length film, they are struck by the inconsistencies and manipulations that underline the split between sound and image in the cinema. A film in English has been dubbed into English, an act which makes the familiar strange. UTE is by Cory Arcangel, Ben Jones, with additional production by Miriam Katzeff. Presented in collaboration with Cory's exhibition at the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, "a couple thousand short films about Glenn Gould" (commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella in collaboration with Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Spacex Gallery, Exeter and Castlefield Gallery, Manchester). This event is organised and sponsored by CRUMB, University of Sunderland.