Brunch with Anthony Bannon

Tickets now available online.

Hallwalls is hosting a brunch to honor Anthony Bannon preceding the 1 p.m. screening of films he made in 1975 at Artpark. Tickets include the screening, and are $32 for members and $40 for non-members. We are limited to 82 seats for the screening so you will want to get your tickets early! We will be serving mimosas, coffee, juice and tea along with quiches, muffins, fruit, bagels and spreads.

In partnership with the University at Buffalo's exhibit Artpark 1974-84, Hallwalls is pleased to co-present Anthony Bannon's Artpark Movie Process and Paul Sharits' 16mm film, Shutter Interface. Bannon, the former Director of the Burchfield Penney Art Center and current Executive Director of the George Eastman House in Rochester, will present the works and discuss the experience of media artists at Artpark. A close friend to Sharits (1943-1993), Bannon will also discuss the perceptual investigations of the avant-garde luminary, and the influence of the Artpark experience on his filmmaking process. Sharits' Shutter Interface was recently meticulously restored and re-installed at Greene Naftali Gallery in NYC, where it received tremendous critical acclaim.

In 1975 Buffalo-based media artists, Anthony Bannon and Paul Sharits, held residencies at Artpark where they produced new works that could only occur within that experimental, laboratory-like environment. Bannon, an arts critic for the Buffalo Evening News who had produced more than 15 films and videos at the time of his residency, was interested in exploring the limits of the documentary form. Sharits, a well-regarded experimental filmmaker and instructor in the Department of Media Study, took the opportunity to explore the ways cinema might function within a given multiple-screen space (an early example of what is so ubiquitous in media art installations today).

Some publications related to this event:
December, 2010 and January, 2011 - 2010