11 thru 12

Andrea Callard measures her stack of National Geographic magazines.

11 thru 12 11 thru 12 (1977, super 8mm film, 12 minutes, preserved as a 16mm film) In 11 thru 12, Callard uses the structure of the I Ching and an ironing board as a broadcasting desk to consider how to search, what it will cost, the absurdity of explanation, and the limits of the measuring mind.

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Flora Funera (for Battery Park City)

Rocks tossed into the river cause a musical sound when they hit the rebar.

West of the World Trade Center was an open field edged by a retaining wall. On Memorial Day, 1976, I made this by throwing rocks at the rebar with Bernice Rubin and Richard Friedman. This is a Super 8mm film that has been preserved on 16mm film and also digitized.

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Fluorescent Azalea

Office lights reflected in a window, downtown Manhattan.

Fluorescent/Azalea (originally super8mm film, 4 minutes) Imagining myself into an idea of garden, I filmed sources of light in places where other people worked and at swimming pool at the YMCA. I also photographed plants that compounded the sun’s radiation, producing flowers that were almost fluorescent in color. I associate the diving board with ecstasy.

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Talking Landscape

Talking Landscape: Early Media 1974-1984 is a compendium made in 2012 with short media works made between 1974 and 1984.  In 2010, 11 thru 12 and Fluorescent/Azalea, both Super 8mm films, were preserved as 16mm films with funds from the National Film Preservation Foundation by Bill Brand in cooperation with Brent Phillips and The Fales…

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Drawers

The uncut Drawers is 11 minutes long. There are additional versions that are seven and four minute in duration. Andrea Callard and Cara Perlman made Drawers in Callard’s studio on Chambers Street in NYC in 1974 using a Sony portapak. A medium shot frames a set of white drawers. Callard pulls strings to repeatedly open…

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