Friday, April 27, 2007 @ 5:30 PM
Shorts Program #2: Eye See Different
Orbit
Kerry Laitala
9 min, 16mm, San Francisco
Candy apple light emissions create a series of photic stimulating events that tickle the retinas.
Where You Are Is Not Where You Are Going
Jennifer Hardacker
3 min, 16mm, Ann Arbor
Should I stay or should I go? Is the grass always greener on the other side or is there no place like home?
Mannequins Harlequin
Jodie Mack
3 min, video, Chicago
A mannequin hoedown.
Mundane Expositions
Manuel Abady
4 min, video, Brighton, MA
An homage to Ernie Gusella’s Exquisite Corpse (1978). A barrage of oscillating images, which create a new perspective of a seemingly "mundane" world.
Bloodlines
Vanara Taing
11 min, video, Brooklyn
Bloodlines intertwines the use of interview, archival footage and images of a traditional healing practice called gha kchal to explore the relationship between the video maker and her mother, a survivor of the Khmer Rouge genocide.
Hwang Sa Shield Us From the Sun
olivia ciummo
2 min, video, Pittsburgh
Inspired by the Hwang su – Korean name for the thick yellow dust that is a seasonal phenomenon effecting many parts of Northern Asia.
Welcome to Normal: A Seven Minute Exercise
Marianna Ellenberg
7 min, video, Brooklyn
You CAN get better! An Exquisite Corpse compendium of hypnotic sounds, symptoms, and neurological disorders – treatment is just around the corner! (Warning: may induce side effects.)
The Mountain Where Everything is Upside Down
Shana Moulton
5 min, video, Oakhurst, CA
Household rituals meant to reduce stress trigger a disruption in the space-time continuum, causing objects in the room to have supernatural properties.
For A Blonde… For a Brunette… For Someone… For Her… For You…
Mike Olenick
6 min, video, Columbus, OH
An interactive (karaoke-style) reenactment of a key scene from Vertigo as performed by the filmmaker and the audience.
Untitled (Silver)
Takeshi Murata
10 min, video, Saugerties, NY
Ghostly images appear to slip in and out of real time, creating a haunting and ethereal experience, set to a soundtrack composed by musicians Robert Beatty and Ellen Mollé.
Filthy Food
T. Arthur Cottam
5 min, Video, Burbank
Eat it. Lick it. Suck it. Swallow it. Relax, its just food.
Throws
David Dunn
2min, video, Philadelphia
The joys of the CVS disposable DV camera.
Whirr
Timo Katz
2 min, video, Bielefeld, Germany
With mechanical precision this ‘landscape animation’ captures the tension between differences and repetitions of form sampled in a suburban housing estate.
It will Die Out In the Mind
Deborah Stratman
4 min, video, Chicago
A short meditation on the possibility of spiritual existence and the paranormal in our information age.