COMPETITION SHOW

Avant-garde Explorations

SHOWTIME
Tuesday, April 27, 5:45 pm, Athena Cinema

Films shown in this competition show:

Hydromorphone 8mg

Director: Francois Miron 3 min. Canada
A film about the sadness of a love lost and taking morphine to quell the pain

The Chambered Nautilus

Director: Vanessa Woods 4 min. U.S.A.
The Chambered Nautilus is animated underwater film in which objects continually transform, dissolve and evolve. Made from over 100 original photograms, and hundreds of nineteenth century collage elements, this 16mm film is entirely hand made.

The Bellows March

Director: Eric Dyer 5 min. U.S.A.
In The Bellows March, concertina-soldiers march, dance, and burrow; rain showers on the fallen ones, who are reborn as colorful plants blooming in mock-timelapse. They dance in grassy fields, intertwining with each other in a colorful kaleidoscope of motion, until joining in ordered rows and devolving into their militaristic marching form.

Breathing Room

Director: Deanna Morse 4 min. Spain, U.S.A.
Examining nature through the lens of time. Light sweeps languidly across the tiles in a room. Outside the flowers erupt in a riot of color. Music by Edie Herrold.

Surface Film

Director: Varathit Uthaisri 3 min. U.S.A.
Glances of everyday urban life from an unconventional point of view, an underground perspective.

Staring Back

Director: Kathleen Rugh 5 min. U.S.A.
With feelings of isolation there is a fascination with observing the objects and sounds outside these old windows.

Lazarus Revisited

Director: Vanessa B. Cruz 4 min. U.S.A.
Images of a desperate running man convey the confused and painful sensations of life’s transitions.

Balance

Director: Debra Sea 4 min. U.S.A.
The product of a 30-day video diary project captured with a simple flip camera. Gorgeous images are from the front wheel of a bike. The wheel transitions landscapes and seasons from rain to gravel, desert to snow, and into the lovely green of springtime--woven together in a lovely tension.

Inside Out/Side One

Director: Matt Meindl 5 min. U.S.A.
A grainy amalgam packed with hearty nostalgia chunks. Part of a complete remembrance.

On the Line

Director: Cathy Lee Crane 4 min. U.S.A.
disturbance. in space. an alien landing as monument at the topic of cancer? baja. solstice. 2005.

LoopLoop

Director: Patrick Bergeron 5 min. Canada
Using animation, sounds warping and time shifts this video runs forwards and backwards looking for forgotten details, mimicking the way memories are replayed in the mind.

The Darkness of Day

Director: Jay Rosenblatt 26 min. U.S.A.
A lyrical documentary that explores suicide and the inherent aspects of depression, mortality, isolation, and connection. A series of anecdotes suggest the various ways suicide can be perceived, contemplated, and enacted. Woven throughout the film are the journal writings of a friend’s brother who killed himself in 1990.