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Friends with Johnny Kline

Dean Kavanagh


Artist's biography

Dean Kavanagh

Synopsis

Friends with Johnny Kline is made up entirely of archive material in which innocuous, familiar images of public or communal life are set in opposition to illicit sequences that delve into the realm of the private, the sexual, the calamitous, and the criminal. In every instance there appears to be a degree of heightened performance for the camera and the film's emotional register sits close to the surface. Kavanagh frequently obscures his images or has objects pass in front of them so it comes to feel like we are looking through a keyhole, or peering from inside Dorothy Vallens’ closet. Cinema appears here as a fully heterogeneous space, a space which “can contain all galaxies and forms of life, even ones we can sense but can’t fully comprehend”'. (Text by Alice Butler and Daniel Fitzpatrick. Sourced from http://aemi.ie/the-films-of-experimental-film-society/ on September 12th 2016)

Details
Title

Friends with Johnny Kline

Year

2015

Form

Short

Key phrases

experimental, human behaviour

Language

None

Duration

00:17:00

Original formats

Digital: MPEG-4 AVC, Quicktime container

Aspect ratio

16:9

Colour

Black & White

Sound

Yes

Supported by Kildare County Council Arts Service, the Arts Council of Ireland and Visual Artists Ireland.
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