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Industrie/Industry Recent Works by Richard Kerr - DVD/DVD Rom - $35 (montreal, quebec)
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While Richard Kerr's deconstructionist collage of high-octane movie trailers is a fairly predictable indictment of Hollywood's excesses, his tactile tampering with the footage suggests something personal as well as political. Kerr isn't the first to take on the Hollywood blockbuster machine; yet, as a former Professor at Concordia University's School of Cinema, Kerr did so with a share of cinema's creative integrity in his hands. He has fostered a deeply personal relationship with experimental filmmaking throughout his 30-year career, beginning with his association with Ontario's fabled "Escarpment School." His commitment to independent film exhibition, dating back to his tenure at the Canadian Filmmakers' Distribution Centre in the early 1980s, has buoyed numerous avant-garde projects. As Bart Testa pointed out in his catalogue essay, Kerr has a bone to pick with film's factory model: his attempt at feature filmmaking (willing voyeur, 1996) was plagued by conceptual wrangling, bitter struggles with government funding agencies, and a disappointing release. This DVD comprises Kerr's multimedia exhibition, Industrie / Industry, which can be seen as part of his ongoing, deliberate response to this stumble, a reclamation of an autonomous and resourceful relationship with his chosen medium.