Fine Arts prof donates works

Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema Professor Richard Kerr made a significant donation to The Film Reference Library of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) Bell Lightbox earlier in 2010 when he gave the six works of art that form his Industrie/Industry  series of motion picture weaving light boxes.

The donation marks the start of a long-term partnership between Kerr and TIFF to develop The Richard Kerr Collection.

Industrie/Industry is a multidisciplinary exhibition consisting of a remixed digital projection of Kerr's film collage d'hollywood, a dual projector slide show of "stilled cinema", a new suite of "motion picture weavings" and a set of human-scaled "frozen film frames" embossed in beeswax. Assembled from an assortment of 35mm "Coming Attractions" that were boiled, bleached, melted, painted on, and manipulated with household cleaning products, the work in Industrie/Industry attempts to reverse the flow of the film trailer advertising form.

The Richard Kerr Collection represents Kerr's experimental vision and work within the film medium. The works will become part of the permanent Special Collections at The Film Reference Library of TIFF Bell Lightbox. Other filmmakers with work on display at the library include David Cronenberg, Isabelle Rossellini, Tim Burton and Atom Egoyan.