Naked Eye Cinema Archival Project

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Gartenberg Media Enterprises has advised and consulted on the construction of a data base that lists all the films shown under the Naked Eye Cinema Banner. The  list was culled from printed matter and other documentation from Allied/Naked Eye Cinema’s archived records including publications, programs, fliers, and working files .

The database will be the basis for determining a  Naked Eye Cinema imprimatur by virtue of recurrence and frequency of screening, premiere status, screening and production variants, availability of program notes, and critical references; the curatorial perspectives from time to time, and other details as they are made available.

The implementation process involved meetings with Jack Waters, the organizational co-director and a central film maker and co- curator/director of the Naked Eye Cinema. The meetings  outlined the esthetics for defining the perimeters of the body of work and surrounding activities whose very nature is critical of restrictive formulations that traditionally define artistic movements. It was determined that tracking and listing the surrounding details of presentation for all work presented under the logo and title “Naked Eye Cinema” should be the primary basis to determine what should be properly construed in the definition of the body of work under scrutiny. The database in its capacity to reorder and reconstruct variably will be made available to curators, archivists, programmers and other professionals in the field, and as an illustration in public forums and conferences as a means to demonstrate how this, and similarly hitherto difficult to define practices can be formulated as a stable, yet fluid art historical construct.

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