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Program 1 0f 10, Total running time 46 minutes.
Thursday April 17, 8-9pm “Cut Up Or Shut Up” at 516 Arts, 516 Cental Ave. SW
In conjunction with the exhibit “Alchemy:Collage & Assemblage,” 516 Arts presents an evening of collage films as part of Experiments in Cinema V3.0. Collage films represent a profound sense of the cinematic in that they foreground ways in which disperate sounds/images are sutured together to create moving image stories. The films in this program focus on the cut and paste aesthetic of collage.
Fast Film by Virgil Widrich (Austria), 14 min, 2003
Science Friction by Stan Vanderbeek (Baltimore),10 min, 1959
Chaos Hags by Courtney Egan (New Orleans), 3 min, 2003
Nook and Cranny by Francien van Everdingen (The Netherlands),3 min, 2008
Mothlight by Stan Brakhage (Colorado, USA), 3 min, 1963
Visions by Garine Torossian (Canada), 4 min, 1992
Lulu by Lewis Klahr (Los Angeles, USA), 3 min, 1996
Suche Nach Dem Almsana-Massiv by Nik Kern (Germany), 5 min, 2005
Olive by Lindsey Testolin (New Mexico, USA), .5 min, 2006
The End of Reason by David Byrne (New York, USA), 3 min, 2003
Truth in Advertising by Negativeland (California, USA), 3 min, 2004
Works to be looped on monitors Friday, April 18 at the Southwest Film Center, UNM
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Outrage by Rasmus Gerhlach (Germany), DV, TRT1.5 min, 2005-2008.
“Ever want to liberate that pent up rage you’ve been having toward your PC? In eerie black and white, Rasmus Hamburg releases his rage against the machine in this violent short performance dedicated to the victims of the computer age.” – Dallas Video Festival 2005
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Hojas de Maiz by Eric Theise (California, USA),16mm (silent), TRT10 min, 2002.
Hojas de Maiz is an abstract, cameraless film. Made at the request of Cincinnati sculptor Anthony Luensman, the film was originally intended to be projected amidst arrays of vibrating piano strings. To provide an organic counterpoint to the lines of machine-spun steel, the film was built up from impressions taken of the corn husks used to form and steam tamales. An old media (etchings, celluloid) journey through progressions of color, temperature, and screen energy.
Program 2 of 10, total running time 55 minutes
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Friday April 18, 6-7pm Southwest Film Center, UNM
Dubus by Alexei Dmitiev (Russia), DV, TRT 4 min, 2005.
The work deals with well-known films such as 'Sun Valley Serenade', 'Casablanca', 'Some Like It Hot', 'In the Waterfront', 'Citizen Kane'. The footage of these films is transformed in order to coincide with the new music made by Zelany Rashoho which is a mixture of jazz, electronics and dub.
Color Control 1: Caught & Escaping by Carolyn Kane (New York, USA), DV, TRT 4.5 min, 2008, world premiere.
This piece is inspired by recent video art that blends luminous and opaque color with photographic imagery. Color, like water and electricity is difficult to harness and control. While there are ceaseless attempts to escape, these attempts are only ever conceivable within the conditions of possibility of that system, rendering each attempt futile and frustrating.
A Shift in Perception by Dan Monceaux (Australia), DV, TRT16 min, 2006.
An experimental, humanistic and informal examination of living with blindness. Conversations with three South Australian women illustrated on film. Animation, time lapse photography and many other methods of abstraction invite the viewer to celebrate the beauty of the women's unique perspectives.
SOS by Reed O’Beirne (Washington, USA), DV, TRT 3 min, 2000.
Though a debt of $206 million remained on the structure, the Kingdome in Seattle was demolished by "implosion" on a cheery Sunday morning in March 2000. The decision to destroy the Kingdome and replace it with a $465 million football stadium was the result of a ballot initiative backed by $5 million in advertising (the most expensive ballot initiative campaign in WA state history.) The theme for this advertising campaign was "Save Our Seahawks" – from whence came the name for this film.
Market Sentiments by Barbara Musil (Austria/Estonia), DV, TRT 4 min, 2007.
The mostly untouched nature conveys a sense of tranquility that is disrupted by garish red and yellow lines that cross the planes, dividing them with little consideration of the existing formations. In Estonia, formerly a part of the Soviet Union, the current market sentiment is “euphoric” thanks to economically liberal laws. The lines are taken from actual real-estate registers of Estonian land which has been sold or is currently for sale.
Siempre by Michael Lisnet & Sophie Sindahl-Inverness (California, USA), DV, TRT 5 min, 2006.
This work questions the way media informs gender roles in our society. Drawing from sources as varied as iconic old world paintings, the Internet, and advertising, the video explores charged and provocative stereotypes and finds meaning in the connection between the past and present.
Testing the Undertow by Jennifer Proctor (Michigan, USA), DV, TRT13 min, 2007.
'Testing the Undertow' is a personal examination of class, pride, and identity as it has played out on the landscape of Marin County, California from the 1980s to the present. Shot on 16mm and completed on digital video, the film presents a personal family history of financial struggles and triumphs during the '80s and '90s in juxtaposition with the county's current economic and cultural topography.
She Dreams the World by Lili White (New York, USA),DV, TRT 6 min, 2006.
An allegorical journey of death and re-birth shot and edited in the eighties. Hand drawing on the
Super 8 “dis-embodied” the body parts. Later overlays were computer edited, and the added music
fit magically. She who “dreams the world” ushers in an “animus” of Dionysian proportions. (Dionysus
was re-born after being torn to shreds by the Titans who ate everything but his heart.) The new
world creation features horseshoe crabs, which actually regrow their lost limbs.
Program 3 of 10, total running time 45 minutes.
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Friday April 18, 7:15-8pm Southwest Film Center, UNM
Itchy-O is in the house! Itchy-O is a Colorado based performance group composed of experimental musicians and filmmakers. Their sound/image work might be described in terms of post-punk psychedelia. A show not to be missed!
Program 4 of 10, total running time 60 minutes.
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Friday April 18, 8:15-9:30 pm Southwest Film Center
Sandwich The Musical by Eric Arsnow (Wisconsin, USA),DV, TRT 7 min, 2007, US premiere.
Ertrok was shooting some random footage of a squid kite near Lake Michigan on a summer’s eve when inspiration struck and a random plot revealed itself, easing his undying desire to create another one of his abstract thoughts into a work of art, Sandwich!: The Musical! With the purchase of several varieties of meat, bread products and a love for writing obscure pieces of music, Ertrok created this great ‘n tasty delicacy!
Mosaik Mechanique by Norbert Phaffenbichier (Austria/Estonia),35mm, TRT12 min, 2007, US premiere.
All shots of the slapstick comedy A Film Johnnie (USA, 1914) are shown simultaneously in a symmetrical grid, one after the other. Each scene, from one cut to the next, from the first to the last frame, is looped. A pulsing visual polyrhythm is produced as a result, because of the shots’ varying lengths. The total length of the mosaic film corresponds precisely to that of the original.
Death of Astro by Doug Katelus (California, USA), 16mm, TRT 5.5min, 2007.
The second part of a trilogy about transition. This is a road trip movie, documenting the life and death of a great steel beast.
Sunshine State (Extended Forecast) by Christopher Harris (Florida, USA), 16mm, TRT 8 min, 2007.
Using Florida sunshine and a pinhole camera, Harris relates the tragicomic story of our universe.
Sebastian by Ann Steuernagel (Masachusetts, USA), DV, TRT 6 min, 2007.
Sebastian is a reference to Saint Sebastian who was sentenced to death by arrows. This piece, derived from found footage, is a reverie about beauty, destruction and the unconscious.
Prelude by Annja Krautgasser (Austria), DV, TRT 3.5 min, 2007.
Prelude is the name of a self-teaching conversation program that works with pattern recognition, or random generators. Perhaps the title of the video is not just an indication of how the dialogue was created, but also stands for the design of an interactive system, for example here, of spaces, patterns of movement, and communication, illustrating the blending of real and virtual components at one of our era’s many non-sites.
From Saturday to Sunday by Christian Bruno & Natalija Vekic (California, USA),16mm, TRT 5 min, 2007.
Presented as a dual projected film, From Saturday To Sunday is a travelogue that concerns itself less with geography than the singular vision of disparate locations. Super 8 images echo one another, contrasting, reverberating and duplicating within its two screens. The soundtrack, like the original Super 8 footage, was gathered and collaged form travels to Mexico City, Paris, New York and Budapest. The work is bolstered by original musical sketches and a snippet of Erik Satie’s minimalist epic, “Vexations.”
Aria by Brooke Alfaro (Panama), DV, TRT 3.5 min, 2005.
In this work, the camera focuses on a deteriorated section of an old
house, suggesting a stage. The audio reflects the dilapidation
through jagged and repetitive sounds, but is softened by a voice that sings
an aria. The ending of the video makes us reflect on the
immense social gaps that separate and exclude.
Graphite on Canvas by Hanni Welter & Alex Weimer (Germany),DV, TRT 10 min, 2007.
An experimental portrait of a young woman who suffers from her self-image. Her mental strains create a prison of thoughts, of which there seems to be no way out. A film about depression and self-loss, about creativity and delusion.
Works to be looped on monitors Saturday April 19 at the Southwest Film Center, UNM
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Telemetry by Michael Betancourt (Iowa, USA), DV, TRT 32 min, 2005.
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Idle Hours by Dan Anderson (Minnesota, USA), DV (silent), TRT 13.5 min, 2008.
“Idle Hours” portrays the common struggle of existence combined with the novelty and excitement of new surroundings and constructed leisure. We divert ourselves from self in whatever ways possible, to a point where what is real and what is not becomes blurred and almost inconsequential. Whatever means we have to dull our human being in turn becomes a relief of our humanity.
Program 5 of 10, total running time 55 minutes.
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Saturday April 19, 6-6:50pm Southwest Film Center, UNM
From Alicia by Hanna Smitmans (Germany), DV, TRT 3 min, 2003, US premiere.
This is a letter from a friend to the filmmaker. She is writing about her experiences living under and fleeing from the military dictatorship in Agentina.
Anaconda Targets by Dominic Angesame (California, USA), DV, TRT 10 min, 2004.
About 2,000 troops from the US led military coalition were engaged in close combat on March 4, 2002 with small pockets of suspected al Queda and Taliban fighters in the rugged terrain of northeastern Afghanistan as part of an operation called Operation Anaconda… the footage contained in this piece was from part of this mission.
Orbit by Paul Caster (Wisconsin), DV, TRT 7 min, 2006.
I have difficulty relating to space exploration. What do they do up there? The astronauts in their metal cocoon seem so vulnerable as they perform repetitious tasks in this vast and fragile vacuum. Endless rotation precedes the inevitable return to mother earth.
It Will Die Out In The Mind by Deborah Stratman (Illinois, USA), DV, TRT 3.5 min, 2006.
A short inquisition of science by the paranormal. On-screen texts are lifted from Tarkovsky’s film “Stalker” in which something more expansive and less explicable than logic or technology is offered as the conceptual pilar of the human spirit. The title is taken from a passage in Dostoyevsky’s “The Posessed” about time after the Apocalypse: “Kirilov: When the whole of man has achieved happiness, there won’t be any time, because it won’t be needed. It’s perfectly true. Stavrogin: Where will they put it then? Kirilov: They won’t put it anywhere. Time isn’t a thing, it’s an idea. It will die out in the mind.”
In The Sunroom by Edward Rankus (North Carolina, USA), DV, TRT 13.5 min, 2007, world premiere.
A chamber drama set in the confines of an apartment’s sunroom, this is a work that explores dualities: conductor/performer, desire/revulsion, constriction/release, among others. I play a vaguely Walter Mitty-ish figure, who imagines himself as a conductor, as Orpheus, and as conflicted characters in a Garbo movie. A picture book of famous paintings is used as a matrix in which to create ironical juxtapositions, which aggravate my character.
Action Film by Jennifer Hardacker (Oregon, USA), DV, TRT 5 min, 2007.
'Action Film' is a manipulation of a well-known Hollywood action film. This video makes abstract the image, while maintaining a sense of the original film's action and suspense. This particular piece of footage was chosen to make into an abstract film, concentrating on the rhythms and colors, but not made so abstract that one cannot recognize the original film. The music for Action Film by Brian Lamere heightens the “action” in a way that gives new meaning and expectations to the images.
Act Your Age by Roger Deutch (California, USA),DV, TRT 11.5 min, 2008, US premiere.
A memoir of early adolescence constructed from an instructional film originally produced in 1959.
Little Clips by Julie Perini (Oregon, USA),DV, TRT 1 min, 2007.
Is there beauty in the mundane, tedious, boring, routine things that we do? In reviewing footage I had shot one evening in preparation for a date, I found a close-up shot of my foot while I was clipping my toenails. I liked the image, and asked a friend to re-enact the footage; to record himself the next time he clipped his toenails and to frame his shot similar to mine. I then edited the two shots together in a rhythmic, succinct manner.
Program 6 of 10, total running time 80 minutes.
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Saturday April 19, 7pm-8:30pm Southwest Film Center, UNM
Bart Weiss , director of the Dallas Video Festival will be showing an assortment of short videos form it's 20 year history, from animation, documentary video art and drama. Including works by Minanda July, Jem Cohen, Jay Rosenblatt, and many others from all over the world.
Program 7 of 10, total running time 45 minutes.
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Saturday April 19, 8:45 – 9:30pm Southwest Film Center, UNM
Andrew Stone has been programming software at the fringes of Reality since 1987 and his Indy software house, stone.com, has over fifteen design, graphics and video programs for Mac OS X. Formally trained in Architecture and Planning at UNM in the '70's, he transmogrified as a cyperpunk Computer Scientist during the Mac and NeXT revolution. Current titles include StoneWorks starring Create®- a complete indy graphics design and publish to print or web solution and Videator - a new approach to mixing video, audio and effects where Art and Science collide. http://www.stone.com. Tonight Andrew will demonstrate Videator and perform the software with members of Itchy-O and Basement Films.
Works to be looped on monitors Sunday April 20 at the Guild Cinema, 3405 Central Ave. NE.
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State of Things by Amelia Winger-Bearskin (Texas, USA), DV, TRT 13 min, 2007.
This work uses the tropes of Vaudville to transform “vulgarity” into a comedy act. The use of repetition sheds suggestions of meaning and provocation, resulting in a work that is more about rhythm and ritual.
Program 8 of 10, total running time 59 minutes.
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Sunday April 20, noon – 1pm Guild Cinema, 3405 Central Ave. NE.
Frigid Escapades by George Kuchar (California, USA), DV, TRT 10 min, 2008, world premiere.
This is actually a rather warm, Xmas greeting which features some thawed items in full action as the Yuletide logs flicker and forks plunge earthward toward smoking piles of nourishment. Skyscrapers rimmed in brilliance loom over icy pools of skating revelers as young and old slice their way to total fulfillment on granny’s turkey carcass.
Olinda: World Cultural Heritage Site by Lucia Duncan (Brazil/USA),DV, TRT 12 min, 2004.
Tour guides show us the historic and scenic city of Olinda, Brazil, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Little by little, the daily life of the tour guides themselves is revealed, showing a side of the city that many prefer to ignore.
Athlete by Toh Hun Ping & Jeremy Sharma (Singapore),DV, TRT 13 min, 2007, US premiere.
Partly inspired by the paintings of Francis Bacon, the work almost always feature a solitary figure in a state of convulsion, amidst a montage of (stop-motion) animated sequences of the human figure that are manipulated into Toh’s unnerving landscape and integrated into the mechanical rhythms of Sharma’s sound work.
Night Flight by Brent Coughenour (Wisconsin, USA),DV, TRT 9 min, 2006.
Female voices communicate with an unknown listener. Messages sent in code. The spies whom I loved.
5 Cents A Peek by Vanessa Woods (California,USA),DV, TRT 6.5 min, 2007.
5 Cents a Peek is a filmic interpretation of a poem by Sharon Olds wherein the circus becomes a metaphor for a woman’s performance in, and for, the world. The film incorporates animation, archival circus footage and distortions of the female form to explore ideas of performance, spectatorship and the male gaze.
Fall by Kathryn Ramey (Massachusetts, USA), 35mm, TRT 5 min,2006.
From the tale of Icarus to Plato's cave analogy and through the fragile materiality of hand processed 35mm film, 'Fall' relates the pain of knowledge acquisition as a girl becomes a woman and one turns into two.
No Silvery Song by Karen Hipscher (New York, USA), DV, TRT 3.5 min, 2007, world premiere.
No Silvery Song is a discordant fall ballad of digitized 16mm and Super8mm film shot at various times and locations. The puppet is made of materials found in my late grandparent’s garage, the girl in the photo is unknown. Sound is original accordian with other found sounds and stolen voices.
Program 9 of 10, total running time 90 minutes.
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Sunday April 20, 1-2:30pm Guild Cinema, 3405 Central Ave. NE.
Guest artist and legendary experimentalist, Scott Stark will present a program of his film/video work.
Scott Stark (sstark@hi-beam.net) has produced more than 65 films and videos since 1980. Additionally, he has created a number of gallery and non-gallery installations using film and video, and elaborate photographic collages using large grids of images. Both a passionate purist and a cynical skeptic, he likes to emphasize the physicality of film while cross-referencing it to the world outside the theater, attempting to lay bare the paradoxes of modern culture and the magical nature of the perceptual experience. Scott's films and videos have shown locally, nationally and internationally, including recent one person shows at New York's Museum of Modern Art and the Pacific Film Archive. His films have won several awards including four Black Maria awards, and a San Francisco Bay Guardian Goldie Award. His film Angel Beach was invited to the 2002 Whitney Biennial. In 2007 Scott received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a MacDowell Colony Fellowship.
Program 10 of 10, total running time 44 minutes.
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Sunday April 20, 2:45- 3:30pm Guild Cinema, 3405 Central Ave. NE.
Icon by Chi Jang Yin (China/USA), DV, TRT 4 min, 2006.
The three Chinese construction workers symbolize the cheap labor systems in the third world and developed countries. The dry skin and torn shoes of the workers contrast to the slick bright color of the Internet brand names. The brand names do not change or improve the living reality for these workers. As part of the labor system, we recognize the workers in the video in every corner of the world.
The Why of the System by Nomi Talisman (California, USA),DV, TRT 4.5 min, 2005.
Created from found materials (home movies, sound recordings, photos, maps, and letters), this collage film is an interpretation of everyday anecdotes. All was collected and found while being the resident artists at the San Francisco Recycling and Disposal facilities.
Not Only Just Coffee by Patricia McInroy (New Mexico, USA), DV, TRT 28 min, 2007.
"Not Only Just Coffee" is an experimental and personal documentary exploring themes of immigration, death and media along the U.S./Mexico border and beyond. Coffee serves as a centerpiece to understand and connect cultures, histories and people throughout the work. In this work, a first person critique of experiences as a photojournalist serve as an entrance to large issues and small connections. By sharing this privileged proximity to the "news" and traumatic death the viewer is invited on the journey. Along the way, ideas of "language" and "truth" are challenged as are small and large actions in daily life and major world events.
Energie by Thorsten Fleisch (Germany),DV, TRT 6 min, 2007.
From a mere technical point of view the tv/video screen comes alive by a controlled beam of electrons in the cathode ray tube. for 'energie!' an uncontrolled high voltage discharge of approx. 30.000 volts exposes photographic paper which is then arranged in time to create new visual systems of electron organization.
A Short, Incomplete History of Experimental Film by Brandon Bauer (Wisconsin, USA), DV, TRT 1 min, 2007, US premiere.
A short and Incomplete History of Experimental Film and Video is a short primer on the wealth of creativity to be found in the experimental use of film and video.
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