Nitehawk's Art Seen Series Presents the Work of Aldo Tambellini

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This Thursday Nitehawk Cinema's ​ART SEEN will introduce a new generation of audiences to the work of pioneer filmmaker Aldo Tambellini. During this year's annual Nitehawk Shorts Festival we will feature a program of his iconic Black Films from the 1960s, as well as his 2005 film Listen. The event will also include a live performative score to an unedited work by EULA and Parlour Walls's Alyse Lamb.

Black is the beginning. It is birth, the oneness of all, the expansion of consciousness in all directions. – Aldo Tambellini

Pulsating, immersive, disorienting, and seethingly black are all good ways of describing the work of Aldo Tambellini. Brilliant is another. There is much to process in his films and it's certainly not an easy contemplation: origins and future of the universe, the infinity of time. It's a promising, albeit somewhat terrifying, proposition.

The idea of blackness in contemporary philosophy, music, artistic practice, and filmmaking has become a fashionable way to understand the world around us. Embodying horror, the post-apocalyptic, origins/endings, blackness, and the void have become an important way to process a new way of existing. But while black metal/cultural theorists dominate contemporary provocations for darkness, artist Aldo Tambellini has been exploring the idea of "Black" for over 50 years with his videos, paintings, and installations. At the forefront of new media and video in the 1960s, he is more relevant than ever as our current environment of ever-changing advancements in technology increasingly dictates how we live our lives. His work is universally relevant, set amongst the perpetual evolvement of technology and the ongoing debate as to how the "blackness" of this technology shapes both our socio-political and spiritual lives. Through his films, Tambellini makes the void and all of its possibilities visible to us in an overwhelming and timeless sensory experience that you won't soon forget.

Aldo Tambellini
Thursday, November 20 at 7:30pm
As part of Nitehawk's Shorts Festival, taking place 11/19 - 11/23

Buy Tickets ​h​ere.