Guest Artist, Alfred Guzzetti.
Osgood Hooker Professor of Visual Arts at Harvard University, Alfred Guzzetti, will give a workshop on his experiments in combining sound with the moving image. He will screen and discuss three short films, the first made in 1971 and the third completed this year. The focus will be on the composition of image and sound in relation to one another.
Following a series of films for theatrical productions, Guzzetti’s experimental short film, Air, won first prize in its category at the 1972 Chicago Film Festival. Afterwards Guzzetti embarked on an autobiographical cycle that included the feature-length Family Portrait Sittings (1975) and Scenes from Childhood (1980), both premiered at the Whitney Museum of American Art. His recent projects include The Gifts of Time (2018), a feature-length documentary on friends he has known for a very long time, and Among Rivers (2019), a piece created in collaboration with Kurt Stallmann for 28 loudspeakers, 7 video projectors, and 4 performers. Guzzetti is the author of the book Two or Three Things I Know about Her: Analysis of a Film by Godard (1981).