| The Films Within April Showers 2004 | |||
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Water Seeking its Level
directed by Leighton Pierce USA, Experimental, 2002, DV, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:05:30 Dad and daughter at the water race of an abandoned monastery. The scene pivots on her words:“Look dad,” she says. He IS looking while he waits for the resolution of the moment-- water through her fingers.... more info | ||
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Esther Levine's Chicken Washing Technique
directed by Potter-Belmar Labs USA, Experimental, 2003, 16mm, Color, 00:03:00 Grandma Levine demonstrates the cleaning of the bird prior to cooking. From optically-printed film source of the artist's Grandmother.... more info | ||
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River by David Moroski
directed by David Moroski USA, Animation, 2003, 16mm, 00:03:30 A contemplative and ethereal look at life, time and our place in history. "We are a river flowing".... more info | ||
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Salt by Debra Grossman
directed by Debra Bellon USA, Experimental, 2003, 16mm, other, Optical Monaural, 00:10:00 The secret life of Lot's Wife... more info | ||
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directed by Tim Szetela USA, Experimental, 2002, 16mm, B&W, Optical Monaural, 00:01:00 A typewriter's thoughts... more info | ||
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March of the Chicken-Man
directed by Hyemee Choi USA, Animation, 2003, 2D Animation, Color, 00:02:30 “Tak-Dae-Ga-Ri?is Korean for “Chicken-man? He is a simple-minded person who has no common sense and a silly person who doesn't have personality. He can’t adopt to change and just follows the flock. Tons of eggs are cloned in production line of the factory and then chicken men are born in the world. In the world of war, pollution, drug, violence, sexualism, and different ideologies, the story shows how people lose sight of the fact and follow the stream of majority for survival. People at current society are satirized as ‘Chicken men?... more info | ||
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Would for Trees
directed by Liane Lang , Animation, 2002, Color, 00:02:29 Using Super8 time-lapse photography to record and accentuate the subtle progression in the light and sound of landscape, Would for Trees is a rhythmic and beautiful meditation on the passing of time. Liane Lang has shown her work extensively internationally including, Saatchi Gallery, London, PS1, New York and Kunst-Werke, Berlin.... more info | ||
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Peeling
directed by Heidi Bollock USA, Narrative, 2003, 16mm, Color, Optical Stereo, 00:12:30 Beautifully fusing animation with live-action, this film peels away the layers of a complicated mother-daughter relationship revealing conflicting wants and desires.... more info | ||
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Ming & Ping's A.I.
directed by Brian H Williams USA, Music, 2003, DV, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:06:05 The first music video from Hong Kong new wave sensation Ming & Ping. Based loosely on the legend of North Beach, San Francisco local 'NTQP', the video takes us on a strange musical journey through the dark side of fame. Shot over the course of several weeks in San Francisco, the video visually brings to life the equally stunning music of these talented brothers.... more info | ||
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Dreamlife of Androids, The
directed by David Witzling USA, Experimental, 2002, Computer/DV, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:05:35 Using a variety of imagery derived from Pixelvision, DV, scanned pictures, and wholly computer-generated sources, The Dreamlife of Androids suggests a signifying system based on the discourse between the sensory apparatus of a cognizant entity and the engendered modalities of a phenomenologically generative regress, representing computation and cognition alike as siblings of a single nonreductive process that governs the combinations of perceptual fragments processed variously and recombined to create the appearance of continuity; it is impressionism for intelligent machinery: as Monet sought to recreate the raw impressions of light upon the rods and cones in the human retina, this video see... more info | ||
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Pavlov's Bell
directed by Evan Mather USA, Music, 2003, DV, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:04:27 Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it a pop-up book? This turbulent little music video about faith, paranoia and fear of air travel is guaranteed to induce motion sickness. "Pavlov's Bell" is on Aimee Mann's 2002 album, Lost In Space. ... more info | ||