Films of Joost Rekveld

Presented by Mount Analogue • Art + Cinema with the On Site Moving Image Series at Mini Mart City Park and the Interbay Cinema Society

Six films by visionary Dutch artist Joost Rekveld, who has been exploring the inner depths and outer reaches of optical expression at the nexus of technology and natural phenomena, producing a body of astonishing works of mesmerizing abstraction.

"Since the early 1990s, visionary artist Joost Rekveld has been exploring the inner depths and outer reaches of optical expression at the nexus of technology and natural phenomena, producing a body of astonishing works of mesmerizing abstraction. Rekveld's films combine a remarkable ingenuity and facility with the image-making capabilities of various machines (many of his own design) with his radically inventive theories and approaches to form, motion, and perception. The result has been a startlingly diverse, ever-expanding body of work marked by formal rigor, breathtaking imagery, and a rich, expressive audiovisual poetry." — LA Film Forum

This program presents six of Rekveld’s films, made from 1991 through 2013, with five of these works projected from 35mm and 16mm prints. 

Inspired by the explorations of color and form in the works of filmmakers like Paul Sharits, Jordan Belson, and James Whitney, Joost Rekveld creates “ultra-chromatic experiences based on mathematical principles” (Austrian Film Museum) and has created works of film art where "science meets visual poetry and music reaches a sublime realization"  (Silvia Scaravaggi, Digimag Journal # 50).

The program includes: 

#37 (35mm, 31 min, 2009)  |  #43.6 (DCP, 13 min, 2013)  |  #23.2, Book of Mirrors (35mm, 12 min, 2002)  |  #11, Marey <-> Moiré (35mm, 21 min, 1999)  |  #3 (16mm, 4 min, 1994)  |  IFSfilm (16mm, 4 min, 1991-94)

A second program of Joost Rekveld’s work takes place 7pm, Thursday, April 16th at the Mini Mart City Park gallery in Seattle and includes Mechanisms Common to Disparate Phenomena, #59 (2023, 79 min), preceded by #5 (1994, 6 min), an expanded cinema work for three 16mm projectors.