AD HOC #72: Lines of Force: Films and Videos by Dan Browne

Lines of Force encompasses a selection of Dan Browne’s moving image work, spanning 2015 to 2020. This program reflects the work that Browne undertook following his memento mori (2012), a condensed epic of personal images that marked Browne’s arrival as a digital artist after a decade of working between media but primarily with 16mm film. That work held an impulse to densify the image in layers, and that impulse remains. So too remain the diurnal rhythms and hyperbolic lines that thread the spaces of his life, from the ceaseless progression of time as it plays on a dining table, to the slowed shutter that forms bands of energy and cursive streaks out of light. The most substantive markers of Browne’s activity in this period—Palmerston Blvd., Vienna, Reciprocity—keep company with unique miniatures, each of them exploring and elaborating on Browne’s experiences of landscape, light, and parenthood.

Dan Browne is a filmmaker and multimedia artist whose works explore patterns and nature through dense and kinetic forms. His films and videos have been presented at over 100 festivals and venues internationally, including TIFF Wavelengths, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Diagonal Film Archive, Centre Georges Pompidou, Festival du nouveau cinéma, Early Monthly Segments, and Anthology Film Archives. His film memento mori (2012) received the Jury Prize for Best Canadian Work at WNDX Festival of Moving Image, First Prize at Athens International Film + Video Festival, and the Deluxe Cinematic Award at Images Festival. 

All works screening digitally.

Program:

Poem (2015, 4 mins.)

Palmerston Blvd. (2017, 15 mins.)

Concrescence (2017, 2 mins.)

ROYGBIV (2017, 2 mins.)

Generation (2017, 2 mins.)

Taylor Creek (2017, 3 mins.)

Lines of Force (2018, 3 mins.)

Vienna (2018, 7 mins.)

Glimmer (2020, 5 mins.)

Reciprocity (2020, 17 mins.)

TRT: 60 minutes

AD HOC aims to rethink what an experience of cinema can be. We seek to reposition historical landmarks and buried treasures within the on-going tradition of experimental and other non- commercial modes of filmmaking, drawing on work from Toronto, throughout Canada, and internationally. Within these parameters, we aspire to diversity in programming, as well as to multimedia and interdisciplinary screening events that bring together varied communities.

AD HOC = Stephen Broomer, Madi Piller, Jim Shedden, Bart Testa.

AD HOC would like to thank Alberto Zambenedetti, Denise Ing, Charlie Keil, Eyan Logan, Rob Trevisan, Thom Chan, Jarret Sorger, and the staff of Innis College and the Cinema Studies Institute.