Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016

In Destruct Film, viewers walk over reams of unspooled film strewn across the floor, shifting the experience of film into a tactile encounter. A disorientating kaleidoscope of slide images, projected and spun around the room, intensifies the immersive experience. Jud Yalkut made Destruct Film in 1967 as part of the "Art and Destruction" events of the late 1960s, a nihilistic response to the perceived complacency of the affluent postwar era. A film projected on the back of the wall of the space, Some Manipulations, features performances and other destruction- based works made by fellow artists and filmed by Yalkut in Judson Memorial Church in Greenwich Village, a legendary site for 1960s experimental art, and the same space where Destruct Film was installed soon after.

Film Stock provided by Oddball Films.