Program A: Thursday, December 8, 7:30 PM - 8:45 PM
Note: Some of the video artists and festival curators will be available to talk about the selections after the program.
Tesla Project BTS 900 Mhz/ Davide Sebastian / 2:22
An exploration of the tension between nature and technological progress focusing on some of its more peculiar modern emblems: cell phone antennas camouflaged as trees.
Cotton Candy / Daphna Mero / 4:23
Combining elements of video art, dance, and cinema, Cotton Candy looks at what happens to a woman when a memory of a violent encounter resurfaces. The action of eating in the present merges with her past memory, as interior and exterior space merge and fill with a substance that is first sweet, then bitter.
Nothing / Nancy Wyllie / 1:48
An old mattress dumped on a busy highway serves as the starting point for a subversive exploration of the nature of syntax that is both humorous and filled with 21st century resignation.
Little One/ Alicia Matthews / 11:35
Collapsing under an insufferable weight of fear and incomprehension, a woman attempts to understand and come to terms with her life within a sterile interior, where her urge to nurture overwhelms and destroys.
Six Moments of Clarity/ Mikey Peterson / 2:10
Tension and disorientation build as six symmetrically arranged lit candle flames stand in silence, gradually coming to life just before they’re extinguished. Using the same repeated shot, the time of their demise is extended by rhythmically altering image and sound while layering the clip’s audio. Not only is a concert of light created, but also an original sound composition is revealed built entirely from a lone sample of breath that blows out the flame.
What We Call Ourselves/ Sarah Scaduto / 3:06
“Sometimes life develops so strangely, and before I let it get a hold of me, I wish to get a hold of myself. I reminisce to remind myself that I will always be me. No matter how the present looks, the past will always and forever be dear. This short film includes found footage of myself when I was a five-year old in a Russian orphanage.” - Sarah Scaduto
Bucket Work/ Erik Nelson / 3:13
Emptying the subconscious ocean by the bucket in 3 minutes.
Chador/Strappa (Tear)/ Sepideh Salehi / 5:21
Chador is an silent investigation into the relationship between the chador, or cloak, and the female body. The black and white images tell of a woman’s life under the chador - her thoughts, her emotions and feelings. In Strappa (Tear) a man and woman express a complex mix of both tenderness and anger. Frustrated with the limits created by the man, the woman holds her chador and tears it in anger, while the man’s look caresses, and the game continues.
Bailioni/ Bailey Scieszka / 12:51
A view inside the mind of Old Put as he laments a broken life after being the world's most famous child hand model.
Chicken/ Mark Starling / 4:35
The artist documents a performance that includes a raw chicken, rope, concrete and a body of water.
Dogmatique/ Nara Denning / 15:09
A man questions the fabric of modern life. Like Pinocchio’s “Fun Land” in which little boys are transformed into mules, he finds himself trapped within a system that transforms men into dogs. He desperately desires a "real" life while at the same time his aversion to reality causes him to live like a shut-in, a post-modern American refugee. He is graced by the moon, which taunts and follows him and then assumes the form of the "Blue Fairy" and shows him that the freedom he seeks is neither here nor there, but in the realm of spirit.
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Program B: Thursday, December 8, 9:15 PM- 10:30 PM
Note: Some of the video artists and festival curators will be available to talk about the selections after the program.
Hotel/ Jordan Crandall / 6:02
Produced in advanced 4K high definition technology, Hotel depicts an encounter in order to probe the realms of extreme intimacy, where techniques of control combine with techniques of the self.
Pastis/8 La Finale / Pastis (Marco and Saverio Lanza) / 2:16
In this short by the team of brothers Marco and Saverio Lanza, an old Italian couple watches the 2006 World Cup Final between Italy and France on TV. The event becomes surprisingly musical.
Life, I’m Not In / Sara Rahimzadeh / 11:30
Life, I’m Not In is a short movie that seeks the definition of life in the pursuits, struggles and habits of the modern human being. It is also cognizant of the fact that this meaning is left behind in the ephemeral chapter of childhood.
I Wrote, You Read/ Farideh Shahsavarani / 3:30
Modern man is being bombarded by the media. Daily, the news impacts us. We do not think; we are not exposed to the truth; we only know what they want us to know. There is no way to run away from it. Modern man is buried under media’s weight.
Treatment Plan / Martin Lucas / 8:45
A psychiatric patient in a waterside hospital suffers from severe depression. The art therapist suggests a video camera, and the treatment plan develops. The film was shot over a five month period near the Verrazano Narrows, and inspired by the difficulties of encountering the possibilities and potentials of the high-definition image.
The Waiting Flesh / Drake Avila / 9:52
An experimental short film made to accompany the sculpture found within the piece. A woman encounters an “Inertia Prick” with whom the woman may have had a previous encounter in some other time. The hidden observer waits, waits, and waits.
Byroads and Confluences / Teddy Peix / 7:35
Using two video screens, images from walks through nature converge and diverge, revealing imaginary confluences between the two sets of images. They can be detached by their point of view but they remain dependent. The landscapes frame the moments of a walk in an open space where only the steps put rhythm into time and the field of vision is unlimited.
The Cycle of Life / Gerald Guthrie / 7:00
The Cycle of Life is a digital animation which employs a metaphor of botanical growth to represent our own developmental stages of life. A solitary figure walks forward through a line of inexplicable machines, approaching, absorbing, and moving on. Through a clever twist, the final stage of life precedes the beginning.
Un Plan, Un Volume, Un Espace-temps / Gabriel Belanger Oyarzun / 13:31
Un Plan, Un Volume, Un Espace-temps is a kind of story told in three vignettes about frame, perspective, and perception in cinema. The frame has evolved over the last century from a static picture frame to a more active point of view. The frame is always the point of view, but the way in which it is constructed and understood has changed: first it was a painting (flat, large, a tableau), then it became an eye to a new reality through virtual and cinematic space.
Dollhouse / Shabnam Piryaei / 5:54
We witness the devastating aftermath of war in a visually stunning film that integrates original music and poetry.
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Program C: Friday, December 9, 7:30 PM - 8:40 PM
Note: Immediately after the screening, there will be a panel discussion from 8:40 to 9:30, followed by a gala reception.
Tesla Project BTS 900 Mhz / Davide Sebastian / 2:22
An exploration of the tension between nature and technological progress focusing on some of its more peculiar modern emblems: cell phone antennas camouflaged as trees.
Cotton Candy / Daphna Mero / 4:23
Combining elements of video art, dance, and cinema, Cotton Candy looks at what happens to a woman when a memory of a violent encounter resurfaces. The action of eating in the present merges with her past memory, as interior and exterior space merge and fill with a substance that is first sweet, then bitter.
Dollhouse / Shabnam Piryaei / 5:54
We witness the devastating aftermath of war in a visually stunning film that integrates original music and poetry.
Bailioni / Bailey Scieszka / 12:51
A view inside the mind of Old Put as he laments a broken life after being the world's most famous child hand model.
Pastis/8 La Finale / Pastis (Marco and Saverio Lanza) / 2:16
In this short by the team of brothers Marco and Saverio Lanza, an old Italian couple watches the 2006 World Cup Final between Italy and France on TV. The event becomes surprisingly musical.
Chinese Portraiture / Zhou Hongxiang / 12:50
This conceptual piece is composed of a series of portraits of various Chinese people, each playing the part of a typical Chinese character type - a worker, an old man, a young girl, an intellectual, a monk, a judge, a beggar, and the Emperor of China. The images are quasi-photographic. Each subject looks into the camera, staring back at the viewer, like a photograph that looks back at you. In its form it also refers to an encyclopedia, and to the tradition of Chinese scrolls, thereby connecting the new medium of video to traditional art forms.
16 Reasons Why I Hate Myself / Matthew Lancit / 6:00
Matthew Lancit says: “This is a film about me and 16 reasons why I hate myself. The list varies from the physical to the psychological, the superficial to the introspective. Some of it is true and some of it is not.”
5 Days in July / Esther Podemski & Chuck Schultz / 10:00
Using film footage from television, government, and private archives, 5 Days in July conveys the essential facts of Newark’s 1967 riots. In ten short minutes, we see black residents living in substandard housing; we hear from activists, politicians, and ordinary people; we witness the looting, the fires, and the tanks; and, in the end, we see a city in ruins.
Chador/Strappa (Tear) / Sepideh Salehi / 5:21
Chador is an silent investigation into the relationship between the chador, or cloak, and the female body. The black and white images tell of a woman’s life under the chador - her thoughts, her emotions and feelings. In Strappa (Tear) a man and woman express a complicated mix of both tenderness and anger. Frustrated with the limits created by the man, the woman holds her chador and tears it in anger, while the man’s look caresses, and the game continues.
Conversation Portrait: George Carlin / Flash Rosenberg / 6:54
Prominent comedians honor George Carlin, who is remembered for his coruscating mastery of the English language, his irreverence about censored words, and his devastatingly funny insights about timeless human follies such as war, moral hypocrisy, stuff, God, and dogs. It’s all set to the drawings artist Flash Rosenberg produced on-site in real-time.
What We Call Ourselves / Sarah Scaduto / 3:06
“Sometimes life develops so strangely, and before I let it get a hold of me, I wish to get a hold of myself. I reminisce to remind myself that I will always be me. No matter how the present looks, the past will always and forever be dear. This short film includes found footage of myself when I was a five-year old in a Russian orphanage.” - Sarah Scaduto
Bucket Work / Erik Nelson / 3:13
Emptying the subconscious ocean by the bucket in 3 minutes.
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