Dawn of an Evil Millennium

Damon Packard

28.Apr.07 - 30.Jul.07
Monday - Friday 10am-6pm, Saturday 12pm-5pm

Union
94 Teesdale Street
London E2 6PU
020 7928 3388
info@union-gallery.com
www.union-gallery.com
Tube Bethnal Green, Hackney / Bethnal Green

UNION is pleased to present a London solo exhibition of cult LA based-filmmaker Damon Packard, featuring a retrospective of Packard?s distinctive fictional trailers which appropriate and revel in the vocabulary of 1970s Hollywood slasher flicks and classic sci-fi pictures. In a nod to mainstream cinema, the ?main feature? of the exhibition will be Packard's first movie-length film ?Reflections Of Evil? (2002). Best known for his use of guerrilla marketing tactics to promote 'Reflections of Evil', for which he left over twenty two thousand copies of the DVD around Los Angeles financed by an inheritance from his grandmother, Damon Packard has written, directed, produced and starred in a prolific body of work over the past two decades. Highly influenced by a 1970s b-movie aesthetic, his pessimistic critique of the lack of creativity within the contemporary Hollywood system is seen in all his films: from the attack on George Lucas in his 'Untitled Star Wars Mockumentary' to his playful representation of a young Spielberg in 'Reflections Of Evil'. His films simultaneously pay tribute to influential peers such as Lars Von Trier and Alexander Sukurov. Born in 1967, Damon Packard lives and works in Los Angeles. Recent exhibitions and screenings include ?The Thinking?, Sketch Gallery, London (Currently also showing); ?Best of 2005?, Lincoln Film Center, New York (2005); Redcat Disney Auditorium, Los Angeles; CineSpace Hollywood, Fantasia Fest, ?Christian Jankowski, Damon Packard, Antoine Prum,? Art Sheffield 05: Spectator T, Site Gallery, Sheffield (2005); ?Biennale!? BizArt, Shanghai & Temporary Contemporary, London (2005); Filler Gallery, Northampton (2005) and ?Romantic Detachment?, PS1, New York & Grizedale Arts, London (2004).