Independent Exposure

Bridge Short Film and Video Collection Volume 1

CATALOG NO. 268

TYPE Shorts Compilation, Modern Culture

YEAR 2003

RUNNING TIME 95 minutes

DVD, REGION

TV SYSTEM NTSC

UPC 827912007206

LABEL Bridge Video

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FILMS IN PROGRAM

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The Bridge Short Film & Video Collection DVD Volume 1, a collection of independent and short art fil

All films in a printable format

	DVD Intro directed by Ralph Syverson USA, 2003, 00:02:00 Bridge publisher tells the tale, then goes into his dance routine.... more info
	440 Hz. directed by Jorge Calvo and Michele Beck USA, Experimental, 2001, 00:03:00 440 Hz. was shot with a spy camera that was placed inside the artist's mouth. The artist then walked down busy streets in New York City and recorded what s/he encountered. The video images were then digitally... more info
	The Forbidden Zone directed by Harrell Fletcher and Elizabeth Meyer USA, 2002, 00:14:00 A film shot at three different times over an eight year period about David Jarvey, a man with Downs Syndrome who has created a constructed personal history involving a Star Trek episode.... more info
	I Spill My Guts Every Day for Nothing directed by Kirsten Stoltman USA, 2002, 00:01:30 I spill my guts everyday, I do I really do.... more info
	Bats, The directed by Jim Trainor USA, 1998, 00:08:00 A vermivorous neotropical phyllostomatid narrates the story of a life devoted to carnal pleasures and the avoidance of predators, under the guidance of a prescient but ineffectual God.... more info
	G.I. Joe PSAs directed by Eric Fensler USA, 0, 00:00:00
	I Asked My Mother To Destroy My Electric Guitar directed by Gabriel Fowler USA, 1998, 00:04:00 My mother performs in her garage, frantically recreating traditionally masculine rock heroics. She alternatively appears surprised, excited, worried, and exhilarated.... more info
	Love It Or Leave It directed by Tom Palazzolo USA, 1972, 00:14:20
	Chubba Chubba (excerpt) directed by Chuck Jones USA, 1998, 00:02:00 It's a video of a 18-month old "Baby Eating Spaghetti in an Airport." The baby is the artist's niece. She is now 8 and very sophisticated.... more info
	My Favorite Character is a Wizard directed by Scott Roberts USA, 1998, 00:04:26 In the summer of 2000 I visited GenCon, the largest gaming convention in the world, with a video crew. We interviewed thirty "gamers" about role-playing, and their favorite characters. This animation brings t... more info
	Coney Island directed by Wendy Jo Carlton USA, 0, 00:00:45 A memory flash of a lover's argument on a summer trip.... more info
	Hiker directed by Sterling Ruby USA, 2002, 00:02:20 It shows a woman walking towards a peak in the Swiss Alps. Manipulating the horror film cliches of soundtrack and first person camera work, this piece creates a distinct sense of anxiety.... more info
	Camera directed by David Cronenberg Canada, 2001, 00:08:00 "I had a dream a long time ago, before I had achieved anything professionally. I dreamt I was in a cinema watching a movie with an audience. And suddenly I realized I was aging rapidly, growing horribly old ... more info
	I Started Out With Nothing And Still Have Most of it Left directed by Miranda July USA, 2003, 00:01:00 On one very sad day in my life I was walking down a street in Houston, TX, walking towards a big old truck. I told myself that whatever the bumper sticker on the truck said would be my reason to live or die. ... more info
	Waveform Modulation directed by Van McElwee USA, 1998, 00:07:35 In this piece, a radical work of Dutch architecture becomes the raw material for a series of experiments with time. Born in a computer, the building jumps again into video where it can mutate freely. Here, pa... more info
	Hideous Secrets of Hock Streedlefork, The directed by Patrick Van Slee and Matt Gossage USA, 2002, 00:04:00 A 4-track, quadrangled, a capella rendition of Bon Jovi's Livin' on a Prayer.... more info
	Fine Arts, The directed by Cooper Battersby and Emily Vey Duke Canada, 2002, 00:03:38 "I hate the fine arts. I hate and am disgusted by the fine arts, because, um, the fine arts are always made with artifice." The Fine Arts is a short, funny, well-conceived video work about the perils of ma... more info
	Fog In A Can (Kinen-no Joki) directed by Masahiro Sugano Japan, 1999, 00:09:00 Although this film has not received its deserving recognition (except for inclusion on this DVD and a comment from Mr. Inigo Manglane-Ovalle, "Man, finally I saw something good." At a short cigarette break ou... more info
	Revolutions Per Minute directed by Alex Roper USA, 2001, 00:03:00 July 4th 2001: A record player is filled with 1600 firecrackers and rigged to go off as it plays The Star Spangled Banner.... more info
	Rude Film (exit sequence) directed by Ralph Syverson USA, 2003, 00:02:07 Bridge seeks to answer the question, "What function does rudeness serve?" Visitors at the release party for Bridge 5 were invited to demonstrate (or provoke others into demonstrating) their rudest behaviour. ... more info