Saturday, April 25, 6 to 10pm
1. Jim Tuite & Michael Durek: Times Pieces (NJ, USA) 9:18
The inspiration for Time Pieces comes from various sources. The creation process included envisioning a dream or hallucinatory state based upon a crossing over between consciousness and unconsciousness, the real and the imagined. Elements suggest transition, projection, progressive concatenation. The video culminates with the breaking of the ego and hinting at disintegration. While the first 4 minutes seem plodding, contemplative yet distracted, the finale is loose and energetic as the ego undergoes its transformation.
The music was composed by theUse AKA Michael Durek (theusemusic.bandcamp.com) and video created by Tumei Tejas (Jim Tuite). It was originally performed for an opening of the artist Laura Mylott Manning (mylottmanning.com) in NYC.
2. Rebecca Major: Split Screen Opera (NYC, USA) 6:30
3. Alexander Isaenko: Exclusion Zone (Ukraine) 8:43
Few years ago Sergey from Krasnodar created a YouTube channel. He documents his different moods with the small camera, shares his online notes, mainly when he is visiting his country cottage area. He likes to work on the land, that’s why he speaks about the country house as of his pleasure. Sergey considers himself a developed personality, both physically, spiritually and intellectually. His constantly naked body convinces us of first. He also finds the acting skills in himself, plays unfunny and vulgar sketches. He knows the tissue of the universe, he is fond of the string theories, and reflects on madness and genius subjects. Sometimes after mowing the grass he clearly sees that he belongs to the scientific community.
4. Davídd d’Addario: Thought (Italy) 2:41
This work is the result of (data) bending of the hexadecimal code of videos, which produces a series of errors known as “glitches”, which reconfigure them according to a different aesthetic and conceptual value.
5. Violet Overn: Facial Projections (New York, USA) 2:39
I tried to hide my face behind celebrities, but unfortunately never fully fit.
6. Alessandra Armenise & Emanuele Correani: Fair Morning (Italy) 3:25
What if even our simple morning routine ceased to appear so normal and reassuring? What if our daily gestures stopped to belong to us and we discovered instead to belong to them? What if one day we could finally hear how our life really sounds like?
7. Mikey Peterson: Light Cycle (Chicago, IL) 3:47
White light streaks back and forth across black space at different rates, absorbed by the woman’s face and then cycling outward again. Each flash and spark declares its unique presence through assigned sounds, sampled and manipulated from the original source footage. It is as if the light were the only living element in this fluctuating environment that appears blank and stationary. The initial illusion of motion reminds us of fantastical travel through space and time as we try to connect the visual and aural data into meaningful patterns of cause and effect. The “return” to our world makes us question what is more uncanny; the science fiction or the reality.
8. Thomas Kuijpers: Waves/ Hijacking the News (Netherlands) 4:35
On January 29th of this year, a 19 year old man hijacked the Dutch news broadcast of the NOS, the biggest news broadcaster of the Netherlands. He got into the studio with a fake gun, demanding airtime to broadcast a message that, according to him, would concern everyone- but it never got to that. The security guard he took hostage on the way in lead him to an empty studio, where cameras were rolling and the microphone was on. Meanwhile, the NOS building was evacuated, and screens went black. For the first time in 60 years the channel did not run the 8 o’clock edition of the news. The word spread fast, and the absence of the news became the new news.
9. Duygu Nazli Akova: Hive (Turkey) 4:00
Hive takes a look at the unplanned urbanization, which has been paraded under the guise of “urban renewal”, Istanbul has been undergoing for many years. This unplanned urbanization creates mega cities made out of concrete, by destroying the existing historical and cultural legacy. This situation is conveyed through the visualization of Marx’s bee and machine metaphor. This metaphor exemplifies how, due to the heavy workload, the workers become mechanical; how they are not only exposed to the adverse effects of this workload but even pay for it with their lives. They are forced to work at such a speed and yet this speed leads to the creation of both abundance, but also nothingness. At the same time, the metaphor represents the impossibility for the workers to own the very building they help produce. In this sense, Hive, focuses on the workers’ working conditions, contract labor, human rights, and urban renewal.
10. Christian Bøen: Apidae (Norway) 2:41
Apidae and Trombidiformes are experimental short videos consisting of destroyed files of self-composed video art and sound. Different computer software were used in order to destroy the files. The files were exported after several rounds of scrambling, almost resulting in software and computer crash. The videos are edited from a selection of damaged and original video files. The soundtracks are composed by Termodress.
11. Siro: The True King (Spain) 4:47
What is a statesman? What is a politician? What should be the characteristics of a true leader? Should be an administrator who runs certain commands, or something else?
This video reflects on the Platonic idea of how it should be a true statesman. Based on dialogue “Statesman” by Plato.
12. Simon Welch: Domain and Range (UK / France) 6:00
An anecdote about a dead lizard in a French vineyard accidentally run over by the winegrower’s tractor serves as a pretext to explore family history which in turn raises questions concerning the relationship between art and deterministic belief systems and between man and nature, etc. The notion of transformation is explored both in terms of the content of the film and the effect of filming itself.
13. Brian Ratigan – Non Films: The Absent Dreamer (Brooklyn, NY) 3:00
After a cataclysmic incident, the last man on earth is trapped alone and tries to free himself by falling in love with his own mind.
14. Steve Snell & Elizabeth Stehling: A Goldfish Documentary (Nebraska, USA) 7:36
How does one transport goldfish across the country in a safe way–that won’t spill water all over the car and be safe for the well being of the fish? A Goldfish Documentary tells the story of Noodles and Tony P, two small goldfish from the Great Plains of Nebraska and their transformative journey to the small hamlet of Wassaic, New York. Bowl-bound meets highway-bound in this autobiographical true story.
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1. Steve Snell: The Epic Spartanburg (Nebraska, USA) 6:05
The Epic Spartanburg is a series of videos built upon the collective, collaborative creativity and adventures of people from Spartanburg, South Carolina. This project invited the public to bring their ideas of adventure to me. I, in turn, accompanied participants on their journeys into the unknown, making them appear epic and amazing in video in the process.
In this episode Doris rides her bike to exercise class four days a week. In order to get there, she must cross the busy Pine Street, which is full of trucks and all kinds of danger.
2. Monteith McCollum: Soundpoint (Vestal, NY)
The second film in a trilogy on sound.
“SoundPrint” explores the marks left by sonic frequencies. Imagery from optical soundtracks and micro photography of records play against similar signals received by sand, water, and people. Sounds of the ocean and the Midshipman are the backdrop for a rich exploration of the subtleties of transcribed sound.
3. Ela W Walters: Milk (Poland)
It took me 11 years to deal with the material I recorded in Devon, England. The material was sitting in a drawer waiting for the right moment. When I think about this work, I always start thinking about The Milky Way. We tend to consider it as something other, different, detached from us. Whereas, in actual fact, we are a part of it.
4. Christopher Carullo: Niteboy, Daygirl (Los Angeles, California)
5. Adriene Little & Lisa Williams: Spilled Milk on Banjo (Kalamazoo, MI)
6. Sandra Fruebing: The Individual’s Pursuit (Germany)
The Individual’s Pursuit is the creation of a narrative based on a character whose quest is to inhabit an in-between space as an exploration of what is beyond the obvious. To walk along the edge of water and earth, where both elements meet, is becoming a strong desire. Specially designed apparatus and physical training exercises will be employed in an attempt to fulfill the dream. The story of the Individual’s pursuit challenges common sense and discusses the idea of the in-between space and borders.
This rather odd quest looks at the relationship between the individual belief and society as well as the longing for a creation of a personal space where one is almost attempting to disconnect oneself from reality and therefore add another layer to normality/ reality.
7. Matthew Clark Mulligan: 3 – 2 – 1 Separation Perfected! (Colorado, USA)
A dirty joke.
8. Mauricio Sanhueza: My Old Man’s Pistol (Peru)
Throughout the centuries dreams have been to many cultures around the world the images that speak of the future. This particular one is based on the myth of the Doppelganger in which the hero is pursued by his doubles and at the same time they try to take possession of his mind and body.
9. Melvin James: While the Cats Away (NJ, USA)
A woman with plenty to hide has a rendezvous with her secret lover, but is interrupted by a handful of uninvited guests. An official selection of The 2013 Cannes Film Festival Court Metrage.
10. Katina Bitsicas: Hypnagogic Regression (Florida, USA)
Hypnagogic Regression simulates the multiple flashbacks that occur of specific traumas in my past. I recreate specific memories of nights with my assaulter, down to every detail, including the shorts and underwear, and also include footage of us together. I then recreate the night I attempted to flee this earth in a graveyard, and how I laid practically lifeless on the school stairs, with no passer-by stopping to help. This footage is mixed in with found footage of my grandmother’s basement where my older cousin explored in areas he shouldn’t have on an 8 year old girl. This footage is then also mixed in with shots of my mother’s face; the person preventing me from sharing all of this. I refuse to hurt her, and must protect her, because I am that perfect little untarnished girl with a glass case full of Wizard of Oz Madame Alexander dolls.
11. Matthew Clark Mulligan: Abstraction n.7 (Colorado, USA)
An exploration of involuntary memories.
12. Marte Gunnufsen: Ave Maria II (Norway)
Ave Maria II is a cinematic staging of a pole dancer who moves to Franz Schubert’s Ave Maria. I used Jessye Norman’s version for mezzo-soprano and organ.