 |
| |
| |
|
|
| |
 |
Flora's Film |
|
|
 |
Animale |
|
|
| |
|
Historical reenactments, personal explorations and cultural icons
are reinterpreted, reimagined or reappropriated in these works to
allow for reflection on the process and the significance of images,
at once familiar, but now uniquely estranged. |
|
| |
 |
paradise
falls, new mexico
Christina Battle | Canada | 4 min. | double 16mm b&w | 2004
| World Premiere
The desert wind from America’s Southwestern ghost towns blows
through the film’s emulsion, stripping away the myth behind
the imagery of shoot-outs, outlaws and the lone gunmen from Hollywood
Westerns. |
|
|
collage d’hollywood
Richard Kerr | Canada | 8 min. | 35mm | 2003 | Toronto Premiere
A dense, ferocious collage of Hollywood movie trailers, “manipulated
with household cleaning products, boiled, bleached, melted and painted
on” (Richard Kerr). collage d’hollywood creates an implicit
commentary on Hollywood’s stranglehold on the imagination
using reified sci-fi and horror images. |
|
|
Marvelous
Creatures
Wago Kreider | USA | 4 min. | video | 2003 | Canadian Premiere
A scratch video to the extreme, Marvelous Creatures mixes natural
history dioramas, waxed celebrities and Hollywood classics into
a tight cavalcade. Our cultural history is sent to the taxidermist
and comes back smelling a little bit like formaldehyde. |
|
|
I Began to Wish…
Julie Murray | USA | 5 min. | 16mm | 2003 | Toronto Premiere
“The sea sucks the seed back into the ocean, the flowers
fold like umbrellas, shoots recoil into hiding, in seeds that shrink.
The plants accelerate their tremble and wobble and glass unbreaks
all around them” (Julie Murray). |
|
|
Petit
théâtre du chaud et du vent
Christiane Patenaude | Canada | 6 min. | video | 2003 | Toronto
Premiere
A spinning ballerina from a music box stirs up a blowing wind outside,
matching the fire and wind deep inside that cause a woman to change
her direction. |
|
|
Across the Rappahannock
Brian Frye | USA | 10 min. | 16mm silent | 2003 | Canadian Premiere
American Civil War recreationists restage Burnside’s failed
campaign at Fredericksburg. Frye’s silent, slow-motion photography
provides a melancholic distance that magnifies the odd romance of
a bloodless enactment of a bloody war. |
|
|
Equestrian
Michiel van Bakel | NL | 4 min. | video | 2003 | Canadian Premiere
Muybridge meets The Matrix... |
|
|
Flora’s Film
Michael Wilson | USA | 15 min. | 16mm | 2003 | Toronto Premiere
A year after completing his famous photographic motion studies,
Eadward Muybridge shot and killed his wife’s lover. Using
a richly lyrical collection of found footage, Wilson imagines Flora’s
response to her husband’s act and subsequent acquittal at
trial. |
|
|
Eclipse
Chel White | USA | 3 min. | video | 2003 | Canadian Premiere
A quiet invocation for a lost child. Reconciliation and introspection
for the life that continues on. |
|
|
SARS
Liu Wei | China | 6 min. | video | 2003 | Toronto Premiere
This video pulls back the SARS face-masks and allows breathing
to become a menacing vision where the lungs inhale more than just
air. |
|
|
Animale
Jonathan Inksetter | Canada | 5 min. | video | 2002 | Toronto Premiere
This video intimately explores the natural evolutions within a
body through the use of X-ray imagery. |
|
|
Papillon d’amour
Nicolas Provost | Belgium | 3 min. | video b&w | 2003 | Canadian
Premiere
“Nicolas Provost turns the shards of Rashomon’s broken
mirror to reflect one another and stares deep into their infinite
regress, hallucinating the night-terrors of a butterfly still slumbering
in its chrysalis” (cinematexas). |
|
 |
| |
