The video apparitions in Brook Hinton's Amorphous States hail from a parallel universe where time is unmoored.

Old home movies reassert their deceased subjects as ghosts, familiar landscapes breathe and shift as if they are mortal beings, and human figures try unsuccessfully to complete simple tasks in the face of colliding pasts and futures. Through dislocation of expected cinematic markers of time and space, Amorphous States places the viewer in a parallel video universe where time is amplified, expanded, and comprehended as an object.

Hinton will present work in person at the show’s opening on Friday, December 2 and on Saturday December 10. Additional installations will be exhibited both in and through the gallery’s windows every evening during the show’s December 2 – December 17 run.

About Brook Hinton

“Moving Image and Sound Maker” Brook Hinton has been ducking in and out of various bay area and international arts subcultures for almost two decades. His performances were a fixture in the bay area's noise music scene during the 1980s; since the mid-90s he has primarily used film and video as tools to explore aspects of human experience that are hidden or obscured by perception and time. He has also worked extensively as a composer, editor, sound designer and teacher, and currently serves as Associate Professor and Assistant Chair of Film at California College of the Arts.

SCHEDULE

Friday December 2, 8PM (Gallery opens at 7, closes at 10)
Trace Transversal (live installation, 2011)
The “found footage ghosts” of the Trace Garden series meet the ghosts of viewers’ immediate past in a bi-directional live-mix séance. Trace Garden was a series of short films reconstituting home movies taken by a wealthy bay area resident in the early 20th century as transmitted memories from beyond the grave. Material from this same source will be used here in combination with live and recently captured footage to generate a ghostly collaboration between the past and the present. This is a live, non-linear presentation – drop in anytime during the evening.
Saturday December 3 – Friday December 9

WINDOW FILMS
A rotating series of new and revised work visible in the gallery window every evening after dark.
Tentative schedule of featured pieces:
Saturday: Attempt (2011)
Sunday: Sheepish (2011)
Monday: The Hopelessness of Resolve (1996)
Tuesday: Reception (2009, revised 2011)
Wednesday: Transit (2007, revised 2011)
Thursday: Signal Disturbance (2011)
Friday: Seadream (2011)

Saturday December 10, 8PM (Gallery opens at 7)
Live presentation and screening.
Brook will present and screen a program old, new and revised work, including alternate versions of the Window Films.
Monday December 12 – Thursday December 15

WINDOW INSTALLATION -
Temescalia (2011)
Your neighborhood, unstuck in time. Constructed from material filmed, collected and generated during the show’s run.
Friday December 16 and Saturday December 17

WINDOW INSTALLATION
Mass for the Attentive Shopper (2011)
The series ends with a meditation on birth, death, commerce and emptiness. Constructed from material filmed, collected and generated during the show’s run.