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More often than not, architecture is seen as a backdrop for action rather than a participant in it. "Independent Exposure - Up in Smoke" was programmed from an open call. The program asked for original short moving image works of 15 minutes or less that explore architecture as a central character through its powerful affect on its surroundings. By looking at all means of reinforcing, subverting, documenting, building and destroying architecture of any form, scale, and social level, this series hopes to expose architecture in a state of change. All genres of work were considered.
This screening will be free, open to the public, and act as the finale to the Up In Smoke Spring ’04 Film Series screened on the campus of Rice University. This show is curated by B. Wesley Heiss, Visiting Lecturer at Rice University School of Architecture and Patrick Kwiatkowski, Founder of Microcinema International.
All films in a printable format
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Current
directed by Brian Doyle
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 no... more info
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Golden Mean
directed by Mark Keane
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 audit... more info
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A Closer Look at Parking Lots
directed by Rob Tyler
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
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Whizeewhig
directed by Chihcheng Peng
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
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Feeling My Way
directed by Jonathan Hodgson
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 th... more info
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Homeland
directed by Jacob Bricca
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.
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The mythology of present-day Corporate America can be ex... more info
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God Mode
directed by Karolina Kowalska
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 plac... more info
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Premonition
directed by Dominic Angerame
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 fre... more info
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Going Back Home
directed by Louise Bourque
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,... more info
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Stereolove
directed by Daniel KLEIN
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
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Still Moving
directed by Aaron Valdez
USA,
Experimental,
2002,
16mm,
B&W,
Silent,
00:02:30
Zooming in on the mundane.... more info
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House of the Century
directed by Laura Harrison
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 ... more info
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Strip Mall Trilogy - Part 1
directed by Roger Beebe
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
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Century's End
directed by Martin Pickles
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 i... more info
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Up In Smoke Architecture In Transformation
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