"Ojos en llamas," 2008
Length: 7:04
Hand-treated 8mm film
By Magdalena Jitrik
Music by Sterling Roswell

Magdalena Jitrik is an Argentinian artist who works with over and under-exposed 8mm film, treating it by hand with bleach, paint and marker pens. Her work has echoes of 1960s psychedelia: the multi-media environments of USCO, the non-narrative "Expanded Cinema" of Stan Brakhage and Jordan Belson, the in-motion paintings of Tony Martin and Bill Ham, but these blobs and colors have a completely different meaning in the 21st Century. Choosing to work with film emulsion during the dog days of digitalia is an oddly oblique but original move and we are happy to be featuring Magdalena's "Ojos en llamas" here on Spaced Out, the on-line commune. - AG