Peter Dudar's Starlings (at Nightfall)

BPC member, Peter Dudar's Starlings (at Nightfall)

PREMIERE:
Peter Dudar's Starlings (at Nightfall)
Images Festival
Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario
Monday April 4 at 6:30pm

Starlings (at Nightfall)Director: Peter Dudar2010, 8 min, Video

In Peter Dudar’s hypnotic and vaguely menacing Starlings (At Nightfall), we are witness to a strange intersection between the forces of nature and a man made structure. A single, static, eight minute long shot documents the spiraling flight of thousands of starlings around a power transmission tower at dusk.

Peter Dudar is a Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist. Early on, he co-directed the multimedia partnership Missing Associates with dancer/choreographer Lily Eng. Missing Associates participated in the first performance art tour of Eastern and Western Europe by Canadian artists—and subsequently toured extensively in both Europe and North America. Next, Dudar screened internationally as a filmmaker. He was also a creative director for print, multimedia and online media. Currently, Peter Dudar primarily makes photo-based and video artwork.