Transposing Geographies
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Shadows From
Another Place

Paula Levine USA, 2004

What if international gestures, such as acts of terrorism or war were like boomerangs returning to sites of origins with an impact equal to the one enacted? Using Global Positioning Systems, Paula Levine imagines the impact of political and cultural changes taking place in one location upon another.




Folk Songs For
the Five Points

Alastair Dant, Tom Favis, Victor
Gama & David Gunn
 USA, 2006

In response to the Lower East Side Tenement Museum's invitation for a project exploring contemporary immigrant experiences in NYC, Folk Songs for the Five Points explores the formation of identity in New York's Lower East Side.

   


New York City Map
Marketa Bankova Czech Republic, 1999-2002

Marketa Bankova was chosen by a secret organization to undertake a research expedition in New York City. Her mission: to seek, discover and document.
 
In the Weather
Melinda Fries and Bonnie Fortune USA, 2005

In 2005 Melinda Fries and Bonnie Fortune began to collect walks from around the world. The resulting website allows viewers to share in individual experiences while providing pathways for future exploration.
 
     
All About my Ho Chung
Tsang Tsui Shan China, 2005

Video imagery and field recordings provide the opportunity to travel through Ho Chung Village as Tsang Tsui Shan presents a multi-layered recreation based on personal interpretations of the town as she remembers it.
 
Radical Cartography:
Exploring Nice,
Mapping Nice

Kayte Young & Bill Rankin
USA, 2001


Wanting to make their first impression of Nice different than the pre-packaged tourist itinerary, Kayte Young & Bill Rankin cut up their map, tried alternate modes of documentation, and talked to the residents about how they understood their city.
     
How I Loved the Broken
Things of Rome

J. R. Carpenter  Canada, 2005

Mapping the experience of the tourist, J.R. Carpenter considers landscape from both a physical and metaphorical perspective. Layering diagrams, photographs, historical facts and literary quotes with documents of contemporary Rome, she explores gaps between what is known of history and what is merely speculative. Also on exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA).
   




IMAGES FESTIVAL 2006
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