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Gary Adlestein's work is experimental. His work tends to focus on the physical aspects of film including color, light and texture. His films seem to capture the whole visual makeup of an event, scene, occurrence or object. Although not a name well known outside of the Berks Filmmakers Inc., Gary Adlestein has had an impact on many filmmakers with his experimental art expressed through his Avant-Garde Films.
Adlestein's films often seem to capture a moment in his life, but not necessarily a significant one. He is able to capture a moment in time in great detail on film. Adlestein, a professor of English, began experiencing new films.
"I began making films in 1970. In 1975, along with Jerry Orr and Jerry Tartaglia, I co-founded Berks Filmmakers, Inc. which is still functioning today in Reading, Pennsylvania as a showcase for experimental film and video. My films tend to be either spontaneously shot, in-camera-edited, sync-sound (or silent) Super 8's often "about" places, nature, travel, friends and the everyday miracles of life ("The films ... reveal a wonderful sense of the qualities of the medium and an appreciation for capturing small, resonant moments." - Kathy Geritz), or they become 16mm, carefully scored and manipulated, optical printer works, always lyrical, sometimes ecstatically so.
In 1990, I discovered the affordable image manipulation potential of consumer video, especially its mixing, wiping and colorizing technology (like optical printing in real time). Since then I have been making tapes (using Hi-8 and recently, digital tape) specifically designed for projection, thereby carrying over something of the scale and attention to surface detail and texture that characterized my films. "The most important aspect to Adlestein's approach to video is that it is irrefutably and defiantly filmic. ... It is sublimely tactile where most videos tend to be impersonally cool and hard. ..." - Albert Kilchesty
Finally, my experimental films/tapes are attempts to see something of Beauty and Truth not only with but - as Blake admonished - THROUGH the eye (film stock, tape, camera, printer, mixer, etc.) and to share this experience with the viewer".
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