A DARKENING SLUMBER (Gregory Godhard, Australia, 2006, 16mm)
IGNORANCE BEFORE MALICE (Sandra Davis, USA, 2001-2006, 16mm)
Biography: Sandra Davis came to filmmaking in 1978, influenced by painting and a love of classical and baroque musical forms. Many works center around the body as the site of imagistic and dynamic foundations that structure human impulses, feelings and thoughts. Imagery of natural landscape and architecture reoccur. All the films, as any rhythmic forms, are meant to be understood through the body and senses, as well as the conceptual mind. Editing tactics contrast fluid image and lyrical tempos with jagged, metric rhythms. Contradictory meaning can emerge and traditionally understood meaning can collapse in the parallel streams of images, which pulsate together until one of them takes over. The films utilize a variety of cinematographic techniques including optical printing, which emphasizes the light-infused and textural qualities of the photographic frame.
ORBIT (Kerry A. Laitala, USA, 2006, 16mm)
Description: "Candy-apple light emissions create a series of stimuli that tickle the retinas a playful pulsation of mis-registered images made when a lab accidentally split the film from 16mm to Regular 8. Kodachrome color fields create tremulous vibrations, which hypnotize with their flickering beauty."
BLUE-UP (Jorge Lorenzo, USA, 2005, 16mm)
Description: "It was my intention with Blue-Up to approach the medium of film through my own, romanticized interpretation and point of view on the nature of human existence and the existence of things and events, and how these are relevant to some and utterly insignificant and/or inexistent to others. By using the comments other filmmakers' (such as Antonioni and Hollis Frampton) have made on the same issues regarding the medium and certain aspects of the human condition I attempt to break what Brakhage would call the camera lens's "19th century Western compositional perspective" in a structuralist/materialist manner."
AUGENBLICK N 38 (Telemach Wiesinger, Germany, 2006, 16mm)
Biography: Telemach Wiesinger, born 1968 in Bielefeld/Germany. Studied Visual Communication at HbK Kassel/Germany, Diplom 1994. As photographer he is working for .many art books and exhibitions around the world. As filmmaker his films are shown on numerous festivals and solo programs. www.telemach-wiesinger.de