Saturday, April 25, \u00a0<\/b>6 to 10pm<\/big><\/big><\/p>\n
1.\u00a0 Jim Tuite & Michael Durek:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>Times Pieces (NJ, USA) 9:18<\/i>
\nThe 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.
\nThe 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.<\/p>\n
2.\u00a0 Rebecca Major:\u00a0\u00a0<\/i><\/b>Split Screen Opera (NYC, USA) 6:30<\/i><\/p>\n
3.\u00a0 Alexander Isaenko:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Exclusion Zone (Ukraine) 8:43<\/i> 4.\u00a0 Dav\u00eddd d\u2019Addario:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>Thought (Italy) 2:41<\/i> 6.\u00a0 Alessandra Armenise & Emanuele Correani:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>Fair Morning (Italy) 3:25<\/i> 7.\u00a0 Mikey Peterson:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>Light Cycle (Chicago, IL) 3:47<\/i> 8.\u00a0 Thomas Kuijpers:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>Waves\/ Hijacking the News (Netherlands) 4:35<\/i> 9.\u00a0 Duygu Nazli Akova:\u00a0<\/b>Hive (Turkey) 4:00<\/i> 10.\u00a0 Christian B\u00f8en:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>Apidae (Norway) 2:41<\/i> 11.\u00a0 Siro:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>The True King (Spain) 4:47<\/i> 13. Brian Ratigan \u2013 Non Films:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>The Absent Dreamer (Brooklyn, NY) 3:00<\/i> 14.\u00a0 Steve Snell & Elizabeth Stehling:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>A Goldfish Documentary (Nebraska, USA) 7:36<\/i> :INTERMISSION:<\/big><\/big><\/big><\/b><\/p>\n 1.\u00a0 Steve Snell:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>The Epic Spartanburg (Nebraska, USA) 6:05<\/i> 2.\u00a0 Monteith McCollum:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>Soundpoint (Vestal, NY)<\/i> 3.\u00a0 Ela W Walters:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>Milk (Poland)<\/i> 4. Christopher Carullo:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>Niteboy, Daygirl (Los Angeles, California)<\/i><\/p>\n 5.\u00a0 Adriene Little & Lisa Williams:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>Spilled Milk on Banjo (Kalamazoo, MI)<\/i><\/p>\n 6.\u00a0 Sandra Fruebing:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>The Individual\u2019s Pursuit (Germany)<\/i> 7.\u00a0 Matthew Clark Mulligan:\u00a0\u00a0<\/i><\/b>3 \u2013 2 \u2013 1 Separation Perfected! (Colorado, USA)<\/i> 8.\u00a0 Mauricio Sanhueza:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>My Old Man\u2019s Pistol (Peru)<\/i> 9.\u00a0 Melvin James:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>While the Cats Away (NJ, USA)<\/i> 10. Katina Bitsicas:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>Hypnagogic Regression (Florida, USA)<\/i> 11.\u00a0 Matthew Clark Mulligan:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>Abstraction n.7 (Colorado, USA)<\/i> 12.\u00a0 Marte Gunnufsen:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>Ave Maria II (Norway)\u00a0<\/i> Saturday, April 25, \u00a06 to 10pm 1.\u00a0 Jim Tuite & Michael Durek:\u00a0\u00a0Times 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. … Continue reading DAY TWO 6 – 10 PM<\/span>
\nFew 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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
\nThis work is the result of (data) bending of\u00a0 the hexadecimal code of videos, which produces a series of errors known as \u201cglitches\u201d, which reconfigure them according to a different aesthetic and conceptual value.
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\n<\/b>5.\u00a0 Violet Overn:\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0Facial Projections (New York, USA) 2:39<\/i>
\nI tried to hide my face behind celebrities, but unfortunately never fully fit.<\/p>\n
\nWhat if even our simple morning routine ceased to appear so normal and reassuring?\u00a0 What if our daily gestures stopped to belong to us and we discovered instead to belong to them?\u00a0 What if one day we could finally hear how our life really sounds like?<\/p>\n
\nWhite light streaks back and forth across black space at different rates, absorbed by the woman\u2019s 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 \u201creturn\u201d to our world makes us question what is more uncanny; the science fiction or the reality.<\/p>\n
\nOn 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\u2019clock edition of the news. The word spread fast, and the absence of the news became the new news.<\/p>\n
\nHive takes a look at the unplanned urbanization, which has been paraded under the guise of \u201curban renewal\u201d, 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\u2019s 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.\u00a0 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\u2019 working conditions, contract labor, human rights, and urban renewal.<\/p>\n
\nApidae 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.<\/p>\n
\nWhat 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?
\nThis video reflects on the Platonic idea of how it should be a true statesman. Based on dialogue \u201cStatesman\u201d by Plato.
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\n<\/b>12.\u00a0 Simon Welch:\u00a0\u00a0<\/i><\/b>Domain and Range (UK \/ France) 6:00<\/i>
\nAn anecdote about a dead lizard in a French vineyard accidentally run over by the winegrower\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
\nAfter a cataclysmic incident, the last man on earth is trapped alone and tries to free himself by falling in love with his own mind.<\/p>\n
\nHow does one transport goldfish across the country in a safe way\u2013that won\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n
\nThe 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.
\nIn 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.<\/p>\n
\nThe second film in a trilogy on sound.
\n“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.<\/p>\n
\nIt 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.<\/p>\n
\nThe Individual\u2019s 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\u2019s pursuit challenges common sense and discusses the idea of the in-between space and borders.
\nThis 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.<\/p>\n
\nA dirty joke.<\/p>\n
\nThroughout 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.<\/p>\n
\nA 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.<\/p>\n
\nHypnagogic Regression simulates the multiple flashbacks that occur of specific traumas in my past.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 This footage is mixed in with found footage of my grandmother\u2019s basement where my older cousin explored in areas he shouldn\u2019t have on an 8 year old girl.\u00a0 This footage is then also mixed in with shots of my mother\u2019s face; the person preventing me from sharing all of this.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n
\nAn exploration of involuntary memories.<\/p>\n
\nAve Maria II is a cinematic staging of a pole dancer who moves to Franz Schubert\u2019s Ave Maria. I used Jessye Norman\u2019s version for mezzo-soprano and organ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"