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Shot on 16mm celluloid across parts of New Zealand and Samoa, interdisciplinary artist Sam Hamilton’s ten-part experimental magnum opus makes thought-provoking connections between life on Earth and the cosmos, and, ultimately, art and science. Structured around the ten most significant celestial bodies of the Milky Way, Apple Pie’s inquiry begins with the furthest point in our solar system, Pluto, as a lens back towards our home planet and the ‘mechanisms by which certain aspects of scientific knowledge are digested, appropriated and subsequently manifest within the general human complex’. Christopher Francis Schiel’s dry, functional narration brings a network of ideas about our existence into focus, while Hamilton’s visual tableaux, as an extension of his multifaceted practice, veer imaginatively between psychedelic imagery and performance art.
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Oregon Public Radio/ NPR. Sam Hamilton Brings His Films And More To PAM’s APEX Gallery The fresh face at Portland Art Museum is Grace Kook-Anderson, the new curator of Northwest art. It’s her job to make sure the museum reflects regional work, but she also has a strong feel for contemporary art. And that is reflected in her first choice for the Museum’s APEX Gallery: fellow recent Northwest transplant Sam Hamilton, whose playful interdisciplinary work interweaves films, music and installation. Who else would mix Carl Sagan, David Attenborough and Kenny G in one show? https://www.opb.org/radio/programs/stateofwonder/segment/solange-sould-out-chuck-close-pendleton/
https://www.60inchcenter.com/home/2017/8/18/sam-hamilton-standard-candles Manufacturing Connections between All Living Things with Sam Hamilton’s Standard Candles Standard Candles, a multimedia exhibition by Sam Hamilton, explores the nature of time, sound, composition and relativity, transporting viewers into a visual and auditory space not quite of this era or dimension. Hamilton’s pieces exhibited in Standard Candles are a fusion of many contemporary art forms, combining film and video, sculpture, visual storytelling, sound, montage, and performance art, engendering an exhibit that requires multi-sensory and multi-dimensional involvement. Through continuous loops and montage style video pieces created using manual film (super 8 and 16mm), and sculptures made to look like vinyl albums, Hamilton’s exhibition seems at first glance to be a collection of adjoining rooms filled with random, unrelated pieces. When reviewed more closely, Hamilton’s exhibit seems to be asking us all to be critical of our “objective assumptions of order and time”, as well as our notions of measuring humanity and likeness (Dykstra, 2017). The pieces in this exhibition work together in a way that transcends the limitations of exhibition design and connects to viewers in a variety of ways, be it sound, memories, dreams, or notions of physically connecting with the natural world. Hamilton asks us to fin…
Title
Apple Pie
Released
Jul 16, 2016
Rated
PG
Region of Origin
New Zealand, Samoa
Original Audio
English
Runtime
1h 20m
Status
Released
