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Cycling through an amazing array of images, these film and video
hybrids are the result of painfully detailed work by their creators.
Musical in their vision, stunning in their realization, these works
prove that rigour and beauty go hand in hand. |
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Sea Horses
and Flying Fish
Rick Raxlen | Canada | 1 min. | 16mm | 2003 | Toronto Premiere
A one-minute animation treat that celebrates the art of sound poetry
as Christian Bök recites words from Hugo Ball, one of the leading
pioneers of phonetic poetry. |
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Time Streams
Stephanie Maxwell | USA | 5.5 min. | video | 2003 | Music by Allan
Schindler
Maxwell and Schindler have been collaborating on musical abstractions
for a number of years, producing works that interact from inception
to realization. Time Streams mixes the digital with the analog –
35mm hand-painted frames and vocal and instrumental samples are
fed into the computer and developed into dense compositions of light
and sound. |
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Chronic
Joe Kelly | Canada | 3.5 min. | 16mm | 2003
A beautiful motion study that references Marey and Muybridge through
a dancer’s photocopied movements. |
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They Say
Michele Smith | USA | 49 min. | video | 2002 | silent | Canadian
Premiere
Michele Smith’s Regarding Penelope’s Wake (2002) was
one of the most exciting avant-garde debuts of the past decade,
a monumental, densely edited, fresh and demanding work that seemed
to come out of nowhere. Smith’s new work proves that her debut
was no fluke. They Say consists of incredibly tightly edited film
– some of it so thickly layered that it can only be shown
on digital video due to the danger it would pose to an optical printer.
With a distinctive rhythmic structure, They Say elusively explores
a number of themes – among them, the relationships between
humans and animals – often entering disturbing territory.
In its proliferation of images in poetic relation, They Say opens
itself up to an extraordinary range of individual experiences and
interpretations. |
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Light Games
Eduardo Dutra | Canada | 7 min. | video | 2003 | World Premiere
Light Games creates structural and poetic qualities of light from
the illumination of flashlights. |
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