Jennifer West has some interesting editing techniques. The filmmaker/multimedia artistยs movies are stepped on, skated over and sprayed with everything from whiskey to hardboiled eggs before seeing screen time. But these beatings random — West carefully chooses her torturous methods to match her subject matter. For Shred the Gnar Full Moon Film Noir, which will be included in ยPerspectives 171: Jennifer West,ย Westยs footage of a full moon was scratched up thanks to snowboarders on a half pipe. ยA lot of them got really into it and were shredding up the film,ย says West. Then she took it to a party, where it was sprayed with various libations, put it in a hot tub, and rubbed it with Advil, butter and KY Jelly. West used ยAdvil for [the pain] after a day of snowboarding, and then the butter and KY Jelly for being able to glide on the snow,ย she says. See how things developed in this film and others from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Thursdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, noon to 5 p.m. Sundays. Through September 26. Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, 5216 Montrose. For information, call 713-284-8250 or visitwww.camh.org. Free.
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This article appears in Jul 22-28, 2010.