Julia Feyrer: Broken Clocks
This programme contains 7 films.
Steffanie Ling (Artistic Director, Images Festival) presents Broken Clocks, a selectrospective of Vancouver-based artist Julia Feyrer’s 16mm films originally shown as installations. By filming their sculptures as props, and the gallery installation as set, each exhibition seeps into the next, creating the causes and conditions for the next film to germinate. Feyrer’s use of ‘practical film effects’—such as physical objects and non-digital special effects made for the verisimilitude of the camera—fashion a world of techniques and materials designed to mirror our own without the pretext of permanence.
Q&A with filmmaker Julia Feyrer
Co-presented with Images Festival
The Composition Kids
The Composition Kids was originally exhibited on a loop and projected onto a suspended hand sewn tent sculpture. Shot on 16mm in Sicily, this cycle of kinetic assemblages are accompanied by a soundtrack comprised of improvised sounds recorded on location and later in Vancouver.
Co-directed with Pietro Sammarco
Director
Julia Feyrer
Production Countries
Canada ItalyProduction Year
2008Duration
9 mins
Producer
Irregular Time Signatures
How will music measure time if time is stretched like a rubber band? Irregular Time Signatures are ways of describing an uneven beat. The arrhythmic pulse of this film is both music lesson, math puzzle and spot the difference game.
Director
Julia Feyrer
Production Country
CanadaProduction Year
2011Duration
3 mins
Dialogue Language
EnglishDallies
Every clock has a partially obscured view, and is stuck at a particular hour, with the second hand stalled yet still ticking. ‘Alive’ yet paralyzed in their moment, performing a durational yet non-progressive trick precariously and nervously. —Jesse Birch
Director
Julia Feyrer
Production Country
CanadaProduction Year
2012Duration
20 mins
Sculpture Garden
Comprised of footage taken from a guerrilla rooftop sculpture garden over one season in Vancouver. Plants swarm with aphids, tomatoes rot on the vine, sculptures come alive and vegetation turns apathetic.
Co-directed with Derya Akay
Director
Julia Feyrer
Production Country
CanadaProduction Year
2014Duration
12 mins
Producer
Escape Scenes
A miniature wrecking ball and accompanying mini brick wall to be destroyed; an incomplete puzzle of the Parthenon; homemade fake latex vomit containing plastic novelties, pieces of candy, knick knacks and detritus from the artist’s studio; pennants made from packets and designer ziplock bags; and a mesh veil adorned with chewing gums. —Western Front
Director
Julia Feyrer
Production Country
CanadaProduction Year
2014Duration
4 mins
New Pedestrians
‘Background actors’ silently inhabit the roles of pedestrians or passersby. Like an exercise in walking meditation, the pedestrians trace a path that is unstable, full of distractions, thoughts and emotions, crises of identity, anxiety and restlessness. —Julia Feyrer
Director
Julia Feyrer
Production Countries
Canada United StatesProduction Year
2018Duration
4 mins
Background Actors
Footage shot within Feyrer’s 2018 exhibition ‘Background Actors’.
Director
Julia Feyrer
Production Country
CanadaProduction Year
2019Duration
4 mins
Print Contact
Julia Feyrer