| The Films Within Mind Over Matter 2007 | |||
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What the Water Saw
directed by Vanessa Woods USA, Experimental, 2006, 16mm, Dolby Digital, 00:02:34 What the Water Saw explores a mystery at the depths of the sea. The film is structured to mimic the ocean’s moods, creating a varied psychological space for the viewer. Equally important, the visual construction of the film moves between form and formlessness. This play between form (appearance) and formlessness (withdrawal) echoes both the ocean’s tides, and the idea of light and dark, or creation and destruction (death). Formally, What the Water Saw combines negative and positive black and white footage with densely painted 35mm film. The ocean’s depths are simulated through the build up of layers created through extensive re-photography and post-production techniques. Embedded within thes... more info | ||
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Keith Cafferty - Pharmacist
directed by Aimee Gillette USA, Narrative, 2006, 16mm, Color, 00:12:09 Keith Cafferty spends his monotonous days working at a pharmacy, creatively dispensing medication to his ill patients. After work, he comes home to his girlfriend, Sheila, who is becoming strangely and inexplicably sick. Keith tries to help her through rational analysis and medicine, only to end up mimicking her symptoms. The more dogmatic his regimen becomes to make them better, the worse things get. The two become more and more similar in their physical appearances and behaviors, until they are forced to embark on a journey together that will either lead to their destruction or salvation.... more info | ||
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Le Saut dans le Vide
directed by Pierre-Yves Clouin France, Experimental, 2004, HD video, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:02:00 C'est maintenant ou jamais - it's now or never.... more info | ||
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Expressions
directed by Evan Mather USA, Documentary, 2005, digital video, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:07:45 Expressions is a portrait of Calvin Abe, a landscape architect and founder of ah'bé landscape architects in Culver City, California.... more info | ||
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Quio: So Dazed
directed by Christine Lang and Maria Schoepe Germany, Music, 2006, 35mm, Color, Dolby SR, 00:04:20 In this experimental music video the singer is put to a test: A day like everyday. But suddenly something happens - the reflection of Quio herself appears on the TV-screen, the water doesn’t fall downwards anymore, the cutlery falls to the ceiling... gravitation is suspended. Quio has to orientate herself in a new way and then she discovers the advantages of the new room structure.- This almost „Gondry-esque“ video cites a kind of futuristic fifties aesthetics and is a play with space, camera and film technologies.... more info | ||
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The Autobiography of Tom Stern, Chapter Six: The New Science
directed by Tom Stern USA, Narrative, 2003, 16mm, B&W/Color, 00:10:00 "The New Science" is a single chapter from the ongoing autobiography of Tom Stern. In this chapter, we observe a fractured portion of Tom's personality, named Him, fall in love with a woman named You. But this love seems to arise out of many fragmented elements of the lovers' pasts, presents, and futures: out of You's most recent and awful relationship, out of Him's very specific likes and dislikes, out of the ghost of Him's ex-girlfriends. All of this begs the question, is this love a happenstance, cosmetic kind? Or is this what real love is actually like?... more info | ||
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DREAMLAKE
directed by Paul Fletcher and Graham Mathews Australia, Animation, 2006, digital video, Magnetic Stereo, 00:05:04 DREAMLAKE. Sounds sink slowly in to the ground, Thoughts float away as clouds, Dreams flow like water, Dreamlake a reservoir of dreams and memories. Concept. Dreamlake is an experimental, digitally animated film which attempts to work within a consistent pattern of discontinuity or dreamlike logic. Dreamlake contains an abstraction of narrative and the foregrounding of audio visual and kinetic spectacle and as such has a form with many parallels to the forms that can be found in classical ballet, modern action adventure films and music video. An e-scape into an electronic sound and video scape , a surrealistic ballet of sound and images. A reflection on the human constructed ... more info | ||
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Simple Piece of Cloth, A
directed by Roisin Loughrey Ireland, Documentary, 2007, Beta SP, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:07:00 Two woman, two different cultures... A very personal film about beauty, beliefs and veils.... more info | ||
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promenade d'après-midi
directed by Claire Walka Germany, Experimental, 2005, 16mm, B&W, 00:02:45 An umbrella, a young woman and her shoes get whirled around on a windy afternoon... more info | ||
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La vie d'un chien (The Life of a Dog)
directed by John Harden USA, Comedy / Satire, 2004, digital video, B&W, Magnetic Stereo, 00:13:15 A French scientist invents a serum which changes him into a dog. Transformed and running through the streets of Paris, he experiences the most exciting and satisfying night of his life. By morning, he is human again. But government agents seek control of the serum, and the scientist's future looks bleak. Will he ever again run with the pack?... more info | ||