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El Hombre Apocaliptico (Apocalyptic
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July’s Wet Dreams |
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It all evens out in the end. Looking for scars across the textured
landscape, remembering moments that propel you forward, chasing
the elements to measure your position in time. |
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Lily in the
Glass
Shiho Kano | Japan | 6 min. | 16mm | 2003 | Toronto Premiere
Long an Images favourite, Shiho Kano creates unique meditations
on light through concentrated and sublime cinematography. This time,
her spacious photography examines the fall of light on a lily –
light bent through water and through glass. |
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July’s Wet Dreams
Kara Blake | Canada | 3 min. | video | 2003 | Toronto Premiere
“A hand-processed recipe for a fountain of youth” (Kara
Blake). |
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The Geosophist’s
Tears
Peter Rose | USA | 8 min. | video | 2002 | Canadian Premiere
The American landscape as metaphor for emotional states, “drawing
on the stratagems of the early geosophists, who believed that through
the operation of a mysterious instrument, landscapes might be placed
in an emotionally meaningful correspondance with one another”
(Peter Rose). |
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Neither Innocent
nor Damned
Taina Kontio & Doran George | Finland/UK | 12 min. | video |
2003 | World Premiere
Last year’s Overkill Award winner returns with a love letter
of sorts. Kontio & George perform the visceral passion and flux
of lovers – their relationship tense and intimate, and torn
apart. |
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Water Seeking
Its Level
Leighton Pierce | USA | 5.5 min. | video | 2003 | Toronto Premiere
Using the healing waters of a stream in the south of France, Pierce
performs alchemical poetry on his video camera. A family trip to
Avignon takes on the qualities of oil painting at its finest, with
stabs of light appearing as brushstrokes and rich metallic sparkle
mixed in with every hue. |
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Adrift
Inger Lise Hansen | Norway | 8 min. | 35mm | 2003 | Canadian Premiere
Four years after her jaw-dropping Hus burned itself into audience’s
memories, Hansen brings us another of her epic time-lapse landscape
films. Not content to just film the passing of time, Hansen animates
the earth itself, peeling away layer after layer of sediment before
our very eyes. |
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F.I.R.T.
119
Ruben Guzman | Canada/Argentina | 10 min. | video | 2002 | Music
composed by Adriana de los Santos | Canadian Premiere
Lyrically shot on high contrast super-8, F.I.R.T. 119 is an homage
to the Earth’s southernmost railway, in Argentinia. The stark
photography and vivid prepared piano score capture the soot-filled
intensity of the coal trains. |
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El Hombre Apocaliptico (Apocalyptic
Man)
Sebastien Diaz Morales | Mexico | 22.5 min. | video | 2002 | Canadian
Premiere
Updating Roberto Arlt’s Los Siete Locos, a classic pre-WWII
Argentinian novel by “a great writer who wrote badly”
(Borges), Diaz Morales deftly translates the heady mixture of melodrama
and philosophy into a stunningly beautiful video, creating science
fiction through ritual, self-investigation through public purging.
A parade and a running man both snake towards their ultimate end,
past cockfights and the stench of murder. Diaz Morales presents
us with a hypnotic and lush investigation of culpability and the
eerie breath of fate. |
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