Reconsidering The New Industrial Parks Near Irvine, California by Lewis Baltz, 1974/ 2009

16 mm film installation, 1 photograph, 1 book

"Reconsidering The New Industrial Parks Near Irvine, California by Lewis Baltz, 1974“ revisits one of the industrial structures Lewis Baltz documented in his historic “New Topographics“ from the outside and depicts the interior setting of a metal workshop with an eleven minute tracking shot. During this time, the 1974 book version has been reconsidered from back to front, each turning page a montage within the continuous 16 mm black and white footage. An interview with J.R. Billington, a company owner in this building for nineteen years, discusses the socio-economical situation in military manufacturing in Orange County in the 1980‘s and today.

Reconsidering The New Industrial Parks Near Irvine, California by Lewis Baltz, 1974“ revisits one of the industrial structures Lewis Baltz documented in his historic “New Topographics“ from the outside and depicts the interior setting of a metal workshop with an eleven minute tracking shot. During this time, the 1974 book version has been reconsidered from back to front, each turning page a montage within the continuous 16 mm black and white footage. An interview with J.R. Billington, a company owner in this building for nineteen years, discusses the socio-economical situation in military manufacturing in Orange County in the 1980‘s and today.

Synchronized dual 16 mm film installation with sound, B/W, 13 min
English

Voice Over: Leigh Ledare
In Conversation: Jim R. Billington
Cinematographer: Norbert Shieh
Sound: Wilson C. Busfield
Grip: Patrick Perez
Title Design: Devin Dailey
Shot on location in Irvine, California and The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles
Produced by [blackboardfilms]
Conceived by Mario Pfeifer

© 2009 USA / Germany

Mario Pfeifer, Reconsidering The New Industrial Parks Near Irvine, California by Lewis Baltz, 1974, 2009, Synchronized dual 16 mm film installation with sound, b/w (production still)

Mario Pfeifer, Reconsidering The New Industrial Parks Near Irvine, California by Lewis Baltz, 1974 [mirrored], 2011, Archival Inkjet Print on Monoprint Rochester Plus, 60 x 80 cm

Exhibition History

NASSAUISCHER KUNSTVEREIN, WIESBADEN, 2011
STOREY GALLERY LEICESTER, (Group), 2011
KOW (Group), 2009

Film Festival Participations / Screenings (Selection)

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, DETROIT, 2011
IMAGES FESTIVAL, TORONTO, 2011
VIDEOART AT MIDNIGHT #16, KINO BABYLON, BERLIN, 2010

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Biography

Mario Pfeifer was born in 1981 in Dresden, Germany. His work explores representational structures and conventions in the medium of film, in locations ranging from Mumbai to California to the Western Sahara. Conceiving each project out of a specific cultural situation, he researches social-political backgrounds and weaves further cross-cultural art historical, filmic and political references into a richly layered practice, ranging from film and video installations to photographs and text installations. Often, Pfeifer collaborates on publications that reconsider these projects, offering research materials and critical investigations by writers and thinkers of related fields, concerning issues suggested in his projects for a wider social-political discussion. After his studies in Leipzig (HGB) and Berlin (UDK), Pfeifer graduates from Willem de Rooij's class at Städelschule Frankfurt in 2008. He is a Fulbright fellow in Los Angeles (California Institute of the Arts) in 2008/09. Further grants and projects lead him to Bangkok, Mumbai, Marrakesh, Beirut, Tierra del Fuego, Santiago de Chile, and New York. Mario participated in the 10th Berlin Biennale (2018), the 11th Bienal do Mercosul (2017), the 3° Montevideo Bienal (2016) as well as the 4th Marrakesh Biennal (2012). Survey exhibitions took place in 2016 at the GfZK Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig and in 2019 at The Power Plant Toronto. In 2019 IDFA commissioned the first performance work AGAIN – Live which premiered at Amsterdam's Pakhuis de Zwijger. Pfeifer lives in Berlin and Dresden. In 2023 Pfeifer was awarded the Hessian Film- and Cinema award in the categorie "Best Short Film" for "Zelle 5 - Eine Rekonstruktion".

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