DOMESTIC BLIND SPOTS Wednesday, October 11th 10:15pm
WHILE REVOLVED (Vincent Grenier, USA/Canada, 1976, 16mm)
Biography: Vincent Grenier has lived in the US and made experimental films since the early seventies when he received an MFA at the San Francisco Art Institute in California. Grenier's films have regularly been shown in North America and Europe.
MURIEL'S SONG (Grant Wiedenfeld, USA, 2006, 16mm)
Description: A hand-painted, hand-processed film bent only thru the lens of the projector and
your pearly-crowned pair.
A DREAM IN KODACHROME #25 (Robert Riendeau, Canada, 2005, Super 8)
Description: This three-minute exploration of the dreamstate was edited in-camera and produced for participation in the 2005 “Dreaming in Kodachrome” themed Montreal Super-8 Film Festival.
The premise of the festival was to celebrate the now discontinued super 8 film stock – Kodachrome 40. Thirty filmmakers were invited to participate in the film happening. A Dream In Kodachrome would win the “Best Technical Film Award” at the festival out of twenty-five finished films.
March of 2006, “A Dream In Kodachrome” is accepted into the Images Festival in Toronto and wins the National Film Board of Canada Award for Robert Riendeau. The international jury honoured the work for “it’s intoxicating use of colour”
CRACKULA (Scott Banning, USA, 2006, Super 8)
Artist Statement: "My life as an artist began at the age of four when I developed an overwhelming passion for burying my puppy, Ginger, in my sandbox. She was hardly dead and it was tough."
THROUGH RED WINE (Dagie Brundert, Germany, 2006, Super 8)
Description: I've probably consumed at least 1000 litres of red wine, so far, in the course of my life. Red wine is a crucial component of my diet. It keeps my heart youthful and warm, providing me with new ideas for films while it also functions as a filter for all sorts of perception. Gradually, I'm certain that I'm dyeing myself red. I see the world in warmer tones than other people do, especially drinkers of white wine. This is a matter of life and death: Winters in Berlin are notoriously long. If one doesn't strive to see the beauty in this world, how can one survive? There's the danger that one could turn blue otherwise...
MORE BREAD FOREVER (Stephanie Gray, USA, 2004, Super 8)
Description: We'll miss you Zito's. In June 2004, Zito's Bakery closed in NYC on Bleecker Street where it had been for 80 years. This film is the next to last day. (This film was edited in camera.)
SMALL GAUGE POLITICS (Jason Halprin, USA, 2006, Super 8)
Description: Pressing the flesh, talking with his hands, and ignoring that freak with the camera, Russ sure knows how to work it. Come and see a master of the stump preach to the converted in an intimate urban setting. Yes indeed, grassroots politics lives in Wisconsin.
BLACK LEEDER (Jesse Kennedy, USA, 2006, Super 8)
Description: A summer daydream. Super-8 ala puppy love. Pajama bottoms. Accompanied by the song of Coil.
DEATH IN STURBRIDGE (Gustav Aschenbach, USA, 2004-2006, Super 8)
TIE Review: "The lifeguard is watched. He seems always about to return the voyeurs
stare
but the camera cuts away or the lifeguard does not look. Will the ducks
bite
the children feeding them? They are getting closer. These things
forebode a
crisis, the crises of contact and recognition. Meanwhile frustrated
desire
(the only kind) seethes beneath the surface of a beach scene, building
like
a storm."
- Jesse Kennedy, TIE
PLACID UNTO (Jeanne Liotta, USA, Super 8)
Description: Following a sudden death in the family, I went into the woods to read
a book, (The Accursed Share by George Bataille). It was the height of
autumn of course, that last energetic gasp of color before the dying
of the light, etc. Then it rained and rained and when it was done, a
butterfly arrived and symmetrically demonstrated the nature of the
gift economy. thank you.
First screened at FLOWERS FOR BRAKHAGE, Robert Beck Memorial Cinema
tribute to Stan Brakhage, 2003.