DATE & TIME:
Saturday, July 23; 8:00 pm
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LOCATION:
Nave Gallery Annex, 53 Chester St, Somerville, MA
WHAT’S HAPPENING:
Join curator Arlinda Shtuni and the artists of Survey Without Surveillance for a closing party featuring a screening of Krzysztof Kieślowski’s “Red”. FREE.
While researching for the show, I found myself returning to a film I first saw in 1994, the last in a series of three, which reconsidered the significance of “liberté, égalité, fraternité” post-Berlin Wall. On the surface, it is a film about a retired judge who surveills his neighbors, and what transpires when an unexpected visitor uncovers his secret. In its depths, it is a mystery.
Kieślowski enlaces puzzling, overlapping patterns that bind these two, and other people together. Their intersecting stories develop like photographs in a darkroom. They are sharply developed only in retrospect, when the process is complete. Then, a higher order can be glimpsed beyond such bonds.
“…[i]f film aspires to be part of culture, it should do the things great literature, music and art do: elevate the spirit, help us understand ourselves and the world around us and give people the feeling they are not alone.” –Kieslowski
