USA, Experimental, 2001, DV, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:03:00
In the vacated downtown of a metropolis a storm approaches and envelops – except this is no ordinary meteorological phenomenon. A digital wind blows the debris from an overflow of information – the city is now occupied by a rushing whirlwind carrying a tangled mass of communication. currentdocuments the path of this storm blowing through an abandoned city like tumbleweed through a ghost town. As devices of technology hovering in enclaves between the skyscrapers seem to monitor or perhaps even cause the storm, the city is consumed, erased by a blanket of information.... more info
USA, Animation, 1994, Color, Optical Monaural, 00:03:28
The Golden Mean is a timeless proportional system governed by the natural rules of mathematical progressions. It can be found in countless aspects of the natural world and the built environment. Our auditory senses can perceive harmonies at birth in music and our mother's voice. But our visual senses are clouded by overload of sensory information. The Golden Mean holds a key to the visually harmonious, so we can see in tune.... more info
USA, Experimental, 2002, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:02:54
Rolling through a quiet parking structure in that moment of transition from late night to early morning, familiar hieroglyphics guide a car through layers of empty parking spaces.... more info
USA, Experimental, 2002, digital video, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:03:00
A brisk jaunt around downtown San Francisco reveals a few new sights. What you see is what you get.... more info
United Kingdom, Experimental, 1997, Hi-8, Painted Animation, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:05:32
A journey from home to work as seen through the filter of the conscious and subconscious mind. Through the use of moving collages and painterly animation laid over Hi-8 footage, we area able to share in the sum total of the traveller's journey through London. ... more info
USA, Documentary, 2003, DVCAM, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:05:27
Documentary footage and clips from prime-time TV are mixed ingeniously in this moody short film about the empty architecture of modern life. *** The mythology of present-day Corporate America can be experienced in its most concentrated form on television. As commercials promise diversion through consumption and news anchors blandly reinforce Administration position, the good life would seem as close as the nearest mall. But where does myth end and reality begin? Homeland is a provocative mix of images drawn from documentary and 'found footage' sources that raises more questions in five minutes than the average film attempts in 90. Set to a hypnotic, moody score by the band Seawort... more info
Poland, Experimental, 2004, DV, Color, 00:02:37
9 short animations played looped. The remote-control, a wonderfull magic tool has teleportation power. By using it I delate or change places in the city. Buildings falling apart, and dirty ugly places, by pushing one of remote-control buttons, becoming nice green spaces, helpfull for psychical condition of a man living in a city.... more info
USA, Experimental, 1995, B&W, 00:09:00
The San Francisco Embarcadero Freeway comes to life in this elegy for modernity. The Freeway was deemed a triumph of engineering, a monument for human inventiveness. With the 1989 earthquake, however, the freeway was severely damaged and with it all the industrial-technological promises it held. Premonition shows the situation before the crisis, a deceptive moment of industrial harmony. "And when the illusion disappears, that is to say when we see the being or fact as it really exists outside ourselves, we experience a strange feeling, complicated half with regret for the vanquished phantom, half with agreeable surprise for the novelty, for the actual fact."—Charles Baudelaire "Th... more info
Canada, Experimental, 2000, 35mm, Color, Optical Stereo, 00:01:00
Turmoil of unsheltered childhood: the dwelling as self. “The disasters of life can make it hard to go home. Bourque’s brief, beautiful, and affecting film goes by so quickly it’s printed twice on the reel, so you can get a second look.” —Program notes, Images Film Festival Catalogue, Toronto, 2001 “Louise Bourque’s Going Back Home conveys a sense of loss and upheaval with just a few images” —Steve Anker and Kathy Geritz, Program notes, San Francisco International Film Festival, 2002... more info
France, Animation, 2003, Color, 00:03:20
Lunch at the Agora goes terribly wrong. Mega autoroute overpasses crumble and smash over too much escargot in this music video.... more info
USA, Experimental, 2002, 16mm, B&W, Silent, 00:02:30
Zooming in on the mundane.... more info
USA, Experimental, 2001, super 8, Color, 00:02:22
A film by Laura Harrison, Elizabeth Federici and Doug Michels. Hildegard of Bingen meets Mojo Lake in this conscious "feminization" of Ant Farm's phallic, automobile-inspired House of the Century, built in 1972 for Marilyn and Alvin Lubetkin in Angleton, Texas. ... more info
USA, Experimental, 2001, 16 mm, Color, 00:03:00
Part 1 in a series of city symphonies that attempt to liberate form and color from the sprawling consumerist landscape of postmodern America.... more info
United Kingdom, Experimental, 2004, 16mm, B&W, Optical Monaural, 00:06:00
A film-poem about London in the last hours of the 20th century. It was shot between midday and midnight on 31st December 1999 and includes the exact moment of the beginning of the year 2000. I shot it in black and white at 16 fps and teleciné-ed it at 25 fps in order to give it the jerky look of an old Edwardian film. This creates a deliberate tension between the antique look of the film and the recognisably modern setting. The film starts with Trafalgar Square and The Mall - views which have scarcely changed in a hundred and twenty years - before moving on to the ultra-modern Docklands redevelopment around Canary Wharf, which resembles the set from Fritz Lang's Metropolis. From the... more info