Reality's Invisible

Showings

Screening Room - Michigan Theater Wed, Mar 21, 2018 7:15 PM
Film Info
Event Type:Special Program
Release Year:1971
Production Country:USA
Cast/Crew Info
Director:Robert Fulton

Description

Robert Fulton’s Reality’s Invisible (1971) is a poetic portrait of an iconic Le Corbusier building. “Through candid interviews with Visual and Environmental Studies students, impromptu recordings of faculty lectures, and lingering shots on concrete surfaces and spaces around Le Corbusier’s architecture, Reality’s Invisible is a frenetic, visually lush, almost visceral portrayal of campus life. The intimate footage captures the pedagogical activities, intellectual ideas, and political concerns occupying students and faculty involved in the nascent days of a new visual arts program and building at Harvard. Pushing the limits of filmmaking, Fulton’s images and sounds, edited and layered, collide into a ‘tone,’ as he later described it, revealing the chaos, fluidity, and motion at the Carpenter Center.” – Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts SPECIAL NOTE: This is a color-reversal sound film from a personal film collection. Through extensive research it has been found that this 16mm print is a fine cut of the film and several shots have been replaced with interstitial instances of black leader.

Additional Information

Sponsor: James and Anne Duderstadt Center at the University of Michigan Community Partner: Chelsea River Gallery