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Main Gallery March 18 to March 29, 2006 Emmanuelle Antille Angels Camp |
Opening Reception Saturday March 18, 2006 Special Screening 2:30pm Followed by Artist Talk 4:00pm |
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Angels Camp is a feature-length film by Swiss artist Emmanuelle Antille. The story, divided into four episodes and shot over the course of four seasons, interweaves the experiences of several characters who inhabit the fictional land of Angels Camp. Antille expertly blurs dreams and reality in scenes that alternate between magic, violence, and the banal, drawing the spectator into an emotional and unsettling experience. This work was made after the artist traveled extensively in the American West. Angels Camp was influenced by a wide range of sources, including the novels of William Faulkner, Genet's plays, films by Fellini, Cassavetes and John Huston's The Misfits. Antille says of this work: "the protagonists are a bit like angels because they put themselves at the service of spectators, ready to embody all of their fantasies." Angels Camp was the official Swiss entry to the Venice Biennale of 2003. This is its first screening in Canada. The artist will be in attendance at the opening reception on Saturday March 18. She will give a talk at 4pm after a screening starting at 2:30. Emmanuelle Antille was born in Lausanne, Switzerland. She has a BFA from the ecole superieure d'art visuel, Geneva and an MFA from Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam. After the opening, Angels Camp will be screened as a loop and will be started from the beginning for viewers when there are no other spectators present. Running time is 79 minutes. 
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Emmanuelle Antille "Julie and Arantxa I", from Angels Camp, 2003 
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