In this experimental travelogue, efforts to sound human and
look natural become artificial. The scenery is provided through photochrome
vintage postcards, displaying not only scenic North American landscapes but
also the rise of infrastructure and industry. Aspiring to look more realistic
by adding colour to a black and white image, the postcards instead become
documents of the fantastic.
MIRAGE
Atoosa Pour Hosseini
Mirage
evokes a desert landscape but it is the cinematic image itself that is the
mirage. Working with the material textures of Super-8 film, Mirage presents two
visual planes: the captured image and the surface of the film strip itself.
NORMAL
EVENTS Vadim Gershmen & Frank Heatley
This project began as a collection of everyday beauty,
documenting and collecting clusters of hazard lights around Minneapolis. The
resulting video took the form of an absurd orchestra resulting in something we
hope is at once familiar and very unfamiliar.
NON
PLACES;BEYOND THE INFINITE Peter Lichter
Marc
Augé's essay (Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity)
meets with Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey in some Hungarian highway
rest areas.
The
purpose of this or that, or its role in enabling a sense of security or status
is
ephemeral, depending on factors that may or may not be readily apparent. As
systems shift from one emphasis to another, or as one system supplants another,
the meaning of something can be altered to such a degree that a new description
may be required to understand its context.
EXILE
EXOTIC Sasha Litvintseva
Steeped in elliptical history and
historical simulacra, Exile Exotic is set at a hotel that is a replica of the
Kremlin. Narrating the exotic beginnings of my mother's and my exile from
Russia, the film serves as a platform for us to visit the Kremlin again, albeit
by the side of a pool. Soundtracked by an operatic score reminiscent of the
song of the sirens making Odysseus stray on his long journey home, our story
reverberates throughout the scope of Russian history's limiting of free
movement of individuals. This film is a pilgrimage. This film comes in waves.
KELLY
SEARS Once It Started It Could Not End
Otherwise
Candid photos
from 1970s high school yearbooks resurface in an eerie minimalist horror story.
CONFIDENTE Karen
Akerman & Miguel Seabra Lopes
If I didn’t
blossom, if I remained ‘unbloomed’, it’s because my roots were poisoned. I know
it's false, an induced error, but... this is me. From the editing of archive
footage, “Confidente” traces its narrative using methods of deconstruction from
experimental cinema and associations of ideas close to surrealism. An obsessive
repetition of sounds and images is used to sketch out a psychological portrait
of a man, in brief notes uncannily associated with past events.
LUNGI DAL CARO BENE Stuart Pound
An image of the
young Ezio Pinza and an old vinyl recording of this great Italian singer are
brought together in an uncanny portrait.
THE
DOUBLE Roy Villevoye & Jan Dietvorst
A painstakingly realistic
sculpture of a middle-aged man is made in a workshop. While his exterior is
fabricated, a voice-over spoken by people who knew him breathes life into him.
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Programmed
by Jayne Wilson
Special thanks to Daniela
Norton for Short Circuit, Grand Central, & Argos distribution for The Double.
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