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Aerobia! Beta v.01 |
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Aqua Gym |
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This year marks the union of the student film and video programs
in response to the increasing convergence of analog and digital
media in student production. The 2004 program boasts a selection
of works, chosen from 200 submissions, that range from the formal
to the candid, including works that synthesize both film and video
into a new hybrid.
In this year’s program, a significant amount of work engages
in nuanced manipulations of landscape and “the everyday”,
changing the way we perceive those environments and calling attention
to the subtleties of the bustling metropolis. Found footage is used
similarly, to critique the mass media sources that generate the
images we are inundated with on a regular basis. These works rub
up against the explicitly personal imagery of more viscerally performative
or nostalgic pieces to represent a wide range of image-making processes
in national and international student film and video.
The 2004 Images Student Film and Video Jury consists of: Hohyun
Joung (York University MFA candidate in Film and Video); Heather
Keung (OCAD student); Patrick Borjal (U of T Visual and Cinema Studies
Graduate); and Jillian Locke (Jury Coordinator and student of U
of T Cinema and Visual Studies Programs). |
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Aqua Gym
Simon Greene | UK | Royal College of Art | 3.5 min. | Super 16mm
(screening on video) | 2003 | Canadian Premiere
Synchronized swimmers perform graceful feats in this seamless blend
of illusion and reality. |
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This Time Last Year
Mary J. Daniel | Canada| York University | 2 min. | video | 2002
Daniel explores loss as something sensed, felt and lived with in
this poetic portrait of the absences we feel in the moments we capture
on film or video. |
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Everyday
Cory Bildstein | Canada | Okanagan University | 2.5 min. | video
| 2003 | World Premiere
The commuter’s mundane view takes on a different form in
this abstract study of a man-made landscape. |
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Life Beat
Heath Fashina | Canada | Guelph University | 2 min. | video | 2003
Smashing, slapping, stomping, meowing – found sounds create
an orchestra of the everyday. |
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Spinny
Kevin Parnell | Canada | University of Toronto | 4 min. | video
| 2003 | World Premiere
The space of the playground becomes a backdrop for its invisible
inhabitants as audio taken from the scene transforms into the melodic
or percussive elements of the soundtrack. |
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Apollo
Tomonari Nishikawa | Japan/USA | SUNY Binghamton | 6.5 min. | 16mm
| 2003 | Canadian Premiere
The image creates the soundtrack in this frenetic, experimental
film. Formal attention to graphic qualities of the shot makes everyday
architecture into a hypnotic pattern of shapes and sounds. |
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I’d Like to Show You
Something
Zin Taylor | Canada | Guelph University | .5 min. | video | 2003
A simple gesture transforms a living room into a location for potential
time travel. |
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Flight
Nurjahan Akhlaq | Canada/Pakistan | Concordia University | 10 min.
| 16mm | (screening on video) | 2003 | Toronto Premiere
Set in Toronto and Lahore, Flight weaves an elegy for the tragic
death of a painter and a dancer with the notions of home, nation
and place. |
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I’m On My Bike and You’re
Looking
Kate Porter | UK | Royal College of Art | 2.5 min. | video | 2002
| Canadian Premiere
The gaze of the viewer/author is implicit in the actions of an
anonymous cyclist. |
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Hardcore Superstar
Karilynn Ming Ho & Gale Allen | Canada | Alberta College of
Art and Design | 3 min. | video | 2003 | Toronto Premiere
In front of a Safeway in Calgary, two girls take the macho “milk
challenge” in an attempt to subvert the cultural constructs
of femininity. |
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Aerobia! Beta V.01
Geoff Pugen | Canada | Ontario College of Art and Design | 4.5 min.
| video | 2003 | World Premiere
This montage of found footage pokes fun at the commercialization
of beauty, health and fitness. |
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Anne
Ijose Benin | Canada | York University | 3.5 min. | video | 2003
| World Premiere
Found footage of beloved Canadian character Anne of Green Gables
morphs into an image of the artist and back again. |
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ROY – G – BIV
II
Gregory Scranton | USA | University of Minnesota | 10 min. | video
| 2003 | Canadian Premiere
Super 8 manipulated by an algorithmic process renders a strikingly
minimal video. |
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Great Success
G. Alan Rhodes | USA | SUNY Buffalo | 5.5 min. | Super 8 (screening
on video) | 2003 | Canadian Premiere
Rhodes combines film, video and animation in this hyper-parable
about the modern medical miracle of in vitro fertilization. |
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Number 2 (Nummer
twee)
Guido Van der Werve | Netherlands | Gerrit Reitveld Academie | Canadian
Premiere |
3 min. | 35mm | 2003
An ironic short that combines the mundane and the absurd. |
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Peter Mansbridge Sings
the Blues
Heath Fashina | Canada | University of Guelph | 2 min. | video |
2003
This collage of top stories from The National takes a humorous
jab at mass media “sound-bite” culture. |
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