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Anniversary
Tour Show:
TIE, The International Experimental Cinema
Exposition, marks more than 500 films screened since its inception
in Telluride, Colorado. TIE's traveling showcase remains true to
its dedication: celluloid works in their true format, from the latest
contemporary works to archival films from the rich history of experimental
cinema. The tour is a collection of highlights from the past six
years of TIE’s expositions and festivals. The varying programs
exhibit at a limited number of venues in North America and abroad.
TIE Director, Christopher May, appears in-person.
Saturday, October 15th, 2005
Bowling Green, Ohio, BGSU , Lillian Gish Film Theatre
Doors at 7:00PM
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{Part
1}
The
Influence of Ocular Light Perception on Metabolism in Man and in
Animal
Thomas Draschan & Stella Friedrichs
This found footage film uses an Italian sixties soft porn
soundtrack which is repeated two times. Each time a sequence
of images is synched to the soundtrack. The film images are illustrating
acts of ocular light perception as well as imagery with strong visual
impact. It is a kind of visual test directed towards the viewer.
[6 min 2005 Austria / Germany 16mm]
The
Man Who Invented Gold
Christopher MacLaine
"A film fable so structured that all alchemical searchings
are clearly film wise (gold being discovered cinematically in each
sequence of mixed black-and-white and color) so that when the drama-discovery
is actually made, it acts as a deliberate anti-climax of aesthetic
perfection." --Stan Brakhage
[14 min 1957 USA 16mm]
Under
Foot & Overstory
Jason Livingston
A film at once playful and thoughtful, visually deep and linguistically
complex (and funny!) Under Foot & Overstory weaves together
a commitment to activism with a love of looking at the natural world.
The Friends of Hickory Hill Park, an Iowa City-based environmental
group, work to protect a unique urban space and to define that land,
its terms, and sometimes themselves.
[35 min 2005 USA 16mm]
Der
Klang des Meeres
Wolfgang Lehmann & Telemach Wiesinger
Visual invitation to an imaginary journey through the landscape
of waves along the Atlantic coastline.
[13 min 2004 Germany 16mm]
Water
Work
Tony Hill
A sculptural film which explores the space on and just below the
surface of a swimming pool. The film plays with orientation, weightlessness
and particularly the surface itself, that peculiar boundary between
worlds that is both window and mirror, visible and invisible.
[11 min 1987 UK 16mm]
{Part
2}
Blue
Amber
Madison Brookshire
Light like falling leaves, beautiful in its decay. The translation
from retinal image into cinema. The release of light again as it
passes through a projector.
Summer,
2002. Little money, but lots of time. To work, to think, to putz
around with my friends enjoying innumerable light events in our
new apartment. Light from all sides, the sun had a unique effect
on each of our different rooms with their varying degrees of age-warped
windows. I borrowed a camera and shot expired Ektachrome given to
me by a friend. All I had to pay for was processing.
Cinema, then, was a means by which to translate the incommunicable
of the everyday into some substance (light.. film..) by which I
could offer an invitation, an open hand so to speak, to anyone else.
To experience. To partake of the world.
Two
rolls of Ektachrome, spontaneously shot, impulsively composed. Hits
of light, one lick after another. Editing was organizing these events
into a rhythm, which would impart the viewer (me) with a syncopated,
percussive sensation. This jerking, over-wrought rhythm (I hoped)
enabled the viewer to see and experience each moment as a shock,
a surprise, and thereby SEE it.
It took until April or May to finish editing this little minute
of film. This little pellet of Ektachrome that had formed around,
as well as transformed, the events, which were encased inside its
gelatinous emulsion, its technological amber. And here it is, a
little sliver of the living we were doing then, preserved, if ossified,
and yet somehow still alive for me.
[1 min 2003 USA 16mm]
Summer
Drone Noir
Frank
Biesendorfer
Frank Biesendorfer, a former Masters Student of Peter Kubelka's
prestigious film and cooking program in Frankfurt, has managed to
sustain this unique combination of talents in his professional life
as a cook and in his extraordinary films. Summer Drone Noir is one
of his most extraordinary to date. TIE Award winning filmmaker and
musician, Bernhard Schreiner, composed the score.
[13 min 2005 Austria / USA 16mm]
Den
of Tigers
Jonathan Schwartz
This gorgeous film was made from during travel to West Bengal,
India on an invitation to record sound for a film. While there,
Schwartz collected images/sounds for this, his own project - a reflection
of the maker’s experience, feelings, and most of all, the
participation of walking, looking, and listening. The piece touches
outside the traditional arenas of genre and boundaries. It speaks
with many voices - the associational values of experimental cinema,
the patience of objective documentary, emotional levels of narrative,
and intellectual/research oriented foundations of an essay. The
culmination of visual construction and sound layering moves beyond
hearing and seeing. Jonathan builds the work, with elements of tradition,
into his own- a unique and new voice. It sings with observational,
textural, lyrical, and metaphorical songs. It is in the construction
where innovation enters -the interplay of movement-color-composition-meaning-mood
swimming within the layering compositions of sound inspires emotion,
association, and intellect. The process is rooted in coupling the
experimental cinema artist approach with that of an independent
journalist. Jonathan's work is not journalism in any sense - yet
the approach of creating his work requires intuitive response in
the field.
[18 min 2002 India 16mm]
War
Heb Je Voor Het Gekeken
Jason Halprin
"I think that tourism (re-creation?) should be about learning
from other cultures and landscapes. This film is collage of multi-layered
sound and image collected on a trip to Amsterdam. A remembrance
of a tourist mind set is created through temporal manipulation and
repetition."
[8 min 2004 USA / Holland 16mm]
Meridian
Days
Trevor Fife
"Meridian days" is a navigational term that refers to
the phenomenon of temporally losing or gaining a day when you cross
the international dateline. This hauntingly poetic and beautifully
crafted travelogue stems from audio and visual material collected
on a 3-week luxury ship cruise taken with the filmmaker’s
82-year-old Grandmother. The result is a visually stunning and engaging
mix of humor and disparity.
[12 min 2003 USA 16mm]
Milk
and Honey
Kate McCabe
Exposes the nature of light, love and moon landings in the Promised
Land of Southern California.
[17 min 2004 USA 16mm]
{Q&A
Session}
Program
curated by TIE Director, Christopher May
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