Films by Cyprien Gaillard

MAR 23 WED: March 23 2011, 07:00pm; Hammer Screenings

: Cyprien Gaillard Cities of Gold and Mirrors 2009 16mm film transferred to video. Courtesy of the artist and Laura Bartlett Gallery, London.

Films by Cyprien Gaillard

Through his mesmerizing films, videos, and photographs, Cyprien Gaillard explores the landscape of the built environment with subjects that include modernist tower block housing complexes, Mayan ruins and brutalist resorts, and skateboarding and graffiti in neglected urban spaces such as corporate plazas and train tunnels. The program will feature the following selection of recent film and video works:

Desniansky Raion, 2007, 30 min. DVD

Cities of Gold and Mirrors, 2009, 9min. 16MM

The Lake Arches, 2008, 1min 43 secs. DVD

The Butcher of Dalmarnock, 2009, 2min 18 secs. DVD

Real Remnants of Fictive Wars Part 5, 2005, 7min. 35MM

Dune Park, 2010, 7min 38 secs. DVD

Gaillard is currently an artist-in-residence at the Hammer.

ALL HAMMER PUBLIC PROGRAMS ARE FREE. Tickets are required, and are available at the Billy Wilder Theater Box Office one hour prior to start time. Limit one ticket per person on a first come, first served basis. Hammer members receive priority seating, subject to availability. Reservations not accepted, RSVPs not required.

Parking is available under the museum for $3 after 6:00pm.

Cyprien Gaillard’s residency received major support from the French Cultural Services and the Flax Foundation.