Julia Meltzer and David Thorne
Still from We will live to see these things, or, five pictures of what may come to pass, 2007.
Single-channel video, running time 47 minutes.
Still from not a matter of if but when: brief records of a time in which expectations were repeatedly raised and lowered and people grew exhausted from never knowing if the moment was at hand or was still to come, 2006. Single-channel video, running time 32 minutes.
BIOGRAPHY
Julia Meltzer
Born: Los Angeles, California, 1968
Resides: Los Angeles, California
Education: Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute (M.F.A., 1998);
Brown University (B.A., 1991)
David Thorne
Born: Boston, Massachusetts, 1960
Resides: Los Angeles, California
Education: University of California, Los Angeles (M.F.A., 2004);
City University of New York (B.A., 2001);
Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program (1992)
Website: www.meltzerthorne.com
Selected Group Exhibitions
2008
“Whitney Biennial,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Catalogue.
2007
“System Error: War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning,” Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy. Catalogue.
2006
“Undercurrents,” Kunstmuseum Göteborg, Sweden. Catalogue.
“2006 California Biennial,” Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California. Catalogue.
“Rumor as Media,” Akbank Sanat Gallery, Istanbul. Catalogue.
2005
Blackwood Gallery, Toronto.
“Disinformation,” Apex Art, New York..
Selected Screenings
2008
Transmediale Festival, Berlin.
2007
Redcat (The Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater),
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles.
ArteEast Film Festival, IFC Center, New York.
Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Oberhausen.
Images Festival, Toronto.
2005
Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California.
Toronto International Film Festival.
2004
Rio de Janiero International Short Film Festival.
Shadow Festival, Amsterdam.
Toronto International Film Festival.
San Francisco International Film Festival.
Rotterdam International Film Festival.
2003
Margaret Mead Film Festival, American Museum of Natural History, New York.
New York Video Festival, Walter Reade Theater, New York.
Selected Bibliography
2008
MacFarquhar, Neil. “Video Sampling Syria: Global Politics from a Ground’s-Eye View,” The New York Times (March 6).
Gilbert, Alan. “Julia Meltzer and David Thorne,” Artforum (January).
2007
Mohaimen, Naeem. “But will we live at all,”Bidoun (Summer).
2006
Knight, Christopher, “The Faces of this Place,” Los Angeles Times (October 7).
2005
“The Art of Forgetting: The Speculative Archive’s It’s not my memory of it,” Parachute, (Fall 2005).
2004
“The Art of Questioning,” Holly Willis, Res (July/August).
Berwick, Carly. “What Will Rise,” Film Comment (March/April).