Art Preview: Film Projection Artist to Capture Joys of Urban Life

Last New Year’s Eve, experimental film artist Luke Savisky gave us the eye. This Halloween season, he'll create a surreal urban oasis on film at one of Austin’s historic parks.

It may be hard to top images of a giant eyeball projected on to a downtown water tower, but Savisky’s latest large-scale film installation promises to be just as imaginative—and maybe just a little less creepy.

On Friday night, Savisky will present Film Actions VI: Chores and Joys of the Urban Life, using 12 projectors to cast images onto trees and translucent scrims placed around the gazebo at Wooldridge Square. Savisky also will create a non-traditional projection screen made of fog and intermittent sprays of water. The projected imagery will feature scenes from Barton Springs and other natural areas in Austin. The experience will be accompanied by pre-recorded ambient music by Stars of the Lid, and live music by composer Graham Reynolds and the Tosca String Quartet.

Film Actions VI is the latest in Savisky’s Film Actions series, which has appeared at Sundance Film Festival and the Dallas Museum of Art.

Film Actions VI: Chores and Joys of the Urban Life
8 p.m., Friday, Oct. 26
Wooldridge Square, 900 Guadalupe St. (10th and Guadalupe)
Free, bring your own blankets and chairs

Image by the very-talented Danielle Devereux