| The Films Within Autumnal Edition 2004 | |||
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Screenwindow
directed by Amy Youngs USA, Documentary, 2003, DV, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:03:24 Constructed entirely from computer screenshots, SCREENWINDOW chronicles a personal, three-year obsession with a web cam of the Empire State Building.... more info | ||
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Bukowski
directed by Virginia Valdes USA, Experimental, 2003, DV, Color, Magnetic Monaural, 00:00:45 “My friends commented continuously on humanity; he didn’t think they were much. I didn’t argue”. -Charles Bukowski The voice of Charles Bukowski pensively and slowly recollecting, is heard as a backdrop to the passing beams of the Queensboro Bridge. The blue sky, seen through the massive steel structure, impassively reminds us of the real world that exists outside of our technological society. Progress is seen as nothing more than that what it appears to be: the bars of a prison, “the inescapable technology that mediates between individuals and nature, ultimately abolishing both” -John Zerzan. ... more info | ||
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O.W.L. Off World Laboratory
directed by Sheridan Shindruk Canada, Experimental, 2000, DV, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:04:00 Technological telepathy looms as a mobile-laboratory forages through a series of locations that allude to premonitions of failure, loss, and isolation.... more info | ||
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Unbelievable Act of Totally Disappearing, The
directed by Shannon Silva USA, Documentary, 2003, Super-8mm, 16mm optically printed, Color, 00:05:00 The Unbelievable Act of Totally Disappearing reflects on how technology and time can further distance us from, and obscure our memory of, our collective family histories and personal interactions/experiences.... more info | ||
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Pink Socks
directed by Leighton Pierce USA, Documentary, 2002, DV, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:03:40 Another brief documentary on the Piazza San Marco in Venice.... more info | ||
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11/28/02
directed by Mark O'Connell USA, Experimental, 2003, DV, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:01:54 November 28th was a foggy night. Light and fog interact. Fluctuations form soft rhythms. ... more info | ||
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Bodybags
directed by Kirk Hostetter and Evan Mather USA, Comedy / Satire, 2003, DV, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:10:54 Merle McNally loves his pet fishes, and for most of his twenty-four-hours-a-day, this simple fact provides a serene sustenance. But when waves of rhetoric and some half-a-world-away ugliness seeps through his subconscious, the comfort of his structured routine is threatened, and the very foundation of his everyday life lies in the balance.... more info | ||
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Excitement is Exciting
directed by Justin White USA, Animation, 2002, mini-DV, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:01:44 Excitement is Exciting and so are you.... more info | ||
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(h)ombre
directed by Laurent Barthelemy USA, Animation, 2003, 3D Animation, B&W, Magnetic Stereo, 00:02:40 Everybody seems to be running away from something. One being takes the decision to face it.... more info | ||
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Taken
directed by Kirsten Carthew USA, Animation, 2002, DVCAM, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:11:00 In a visually explosive stream of consciousness, Taken tackles the universal doubts of a young man in the modern world. ... more info | ||
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Rosabelle Believe
directed by Tim Shore United Kingdom, Animation, 2002, 16mm, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:05:23 A dream film about seeing and believing. ... more info | ||
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Balikbayan (Homebound)
directed by Larilyn Sanchez USA, Experimental, 2003, DV, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:05:00 A tale of family, love, and imported goods.... more info | ||
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Museums of Forests
directed by Leif Peterson USA, Animation, 2002, DV, B&W, Magnetic Stereo, 00:03:00 Eerie sounds of jungle ghosts play beneath a stark black and white world. This surreal noir journey takes us from small town America to Asia and back via the subconscious.... more info | ||