| Saturday January 12, 2008
8.30pm - Featured Artist Anthony Discenza |
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Wiljago Cook Oakland,
CA US
How to Make a Sandwich 01:09
A brief comedic video showing the ‘proper’ construction
of a sandwich. |
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No Doctors Oakland,
CA US
Tales Told to Tally The
Teller’s Toll 08:52
At the risk of artsy offense, No Doctors feel that the film speaks
for itself. |
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Seppo Renvall Helsinki,
Finland
Back to the Humanity 04:00
Back to Humanity is a video about industrialization, the all-mighty
power of the machines and the destructivity which can’t be separated
from them. We see car crashes, bullets shots etc. in extremely slow
motion, with Zape Leppänens music, based on the sounds of steam
engines. Images are originally shot by the inventor Harri Vanhala with
the special camera that can shoot 10,000 frames/sec. |
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Mike Goodier Oakland,
CA US
Limbo 10:00
One side of a phone con-versation between a couple
as they prepare to move to LA. The story is told from the guy’s
perspective as he deals with the monotony of daily life.
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Tina Willgren Stockholm,
Sweden
Wood Report 01:57
A video inspired by television news and its techniques
to portray and dramatize significant events. Camera movements, graphics
and a jingle are used to highlight the content: events taking place
in the Nacka Reserve, Stockholm, during May 2006. Durin the time
of filming nothing of hot topic news value really took place, instead
the every day action of the forest area, for example: dangling
leaves and swaying tree branches, bird movements and the mere appearance
of plants and objects in front of the camera create the actual “drama”. |
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Adam Trowbridge River
Forest, IL
snstncntnr.1 03:42
Outside
there is something opening, we watch. What did happen? Utilizing the
chance operations of broken telematic machines to scramble and reorganize
a fictional reality, frame by frame, snstncntnr.1 is an open work.
The structure has been released to the Internet as XML and EDL (www.snstncntnrs.org)
so that anyone can apply it to video, or apply video to it.
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Vienne Chan Shanghai,
China
Ghost Tape 04:31
Chinese Dancers, a computer game & a bungee.
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Matthew
Dotson & Bart
Woodstrup Iowa
City, IA
Song Cycle for Haruki Murakami
[movements 2 & 4] 05:53
The impetus of this work was four quotes out of Haruki Murakami’s
novel “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles.” The intention was to
create a kind of pseudo-narrative out of just these four quotes; creating
a new story out of fragments of the original. Wanting each movement
of the work to be markedly different and thus depending on the visual
presence of the quotes for coherency; Dotson found sonically Murakami’s
work made it evident that, in the words of his main character, it should
be “something concrete”. The foundation material was derived
from several ambient recording that took place in and outside his apartment
in Chicago. These recordings were used to symbolize “inner” and “outer” worlds;
the interactions and tensions between which served to be the conceptual
focus of piece. Soloists (cello, drum, flute and clarinet) were added
in order to comment on these sonic environments and lend a sense of
humanity and drama to the work. Bart Woodstrup created the video to
supplement the sonic piece. The goal to have only simple, elegant white
on black text challenged his creative process to visually imitate themes
from each movement: insect wings, earth, dust and lcok...through animating
their elements by properties of the sonic spectrum (brightness, noise,
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Cynthia Hooper Eureka,
CA
Bay Dredge 08:13
Bay Dredge examines the somewhat bizarre spectacle & unexpected
formal elegance of an imposing effluent pipe that spewed its contents
along an unspoiled beach in rural northern California in the winter
of 2007. This eleven mile-long pipe extended--vacuum cleaner-like--from
a dredging barge at the local marina, across the marshes, and over the
sand dunes to its final destination. The varied and distinctive contents
of the bottom of Humboldt Bay were thus dramatically revealed to all
who dared to venture near this powerful motif to economic expansion. |
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Franz Keller Oakland
CA
Cubicle 02:30
Keller's work centers around Mr. Manley Cubicle and his descent into
madness. Keller created and performed
most of the music on this work in Reason with a little help from a
guitarist friend Henry Barnes of Amps for Christ. His work pays homage
to the music and videos of the 80's and touches the subjects of information
overload and corporate dehumanization.
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Pekka Sassi Helsinki,
Finland
Turning Green 03:02
A short comedy which has something to do with the man’s relationship
towards nature and himself. |
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Michael
Hall Oakland,
CA
Five Constant Factors 07:48
Five Constant Factors is a lyrical exploration
of images taken from footage of the Normandy invasion in 1944. It derives
its title from the Art of War by Sun Tsu. These factors are 1) The Moral
Law, 2) Heaven, 3) Earth, 4) The Commander, 5) Method & Discipline. |
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Robert
Ladislas Derr Columbus,
OH
5 Lines 01:25
A
psychogeographical performance in which the elements including the
site, performance, and placement of the video cameras converge to
question the concept of line in space.
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Dina
Danish San
Francisco, CA
All the Objects from Walgreens on Haight & Filmore
that fits on Toast 01:19
The title says it all doesn't it.
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Featured Artist:
Anthony
Discenza with Michael Zbyszynski Oakland,
CA
Overture (excerpted from
News Cycle # 2) 04:30
“News Cycle 2” is a collaboration with electronic composer
Michael Zbyszysnki, originally presented at the Getty Center in October
2006 as part of the “Distributed Memory” screening program
curated by Julie Lazar. Continuing themes investigated in earlier
works such as “November” and “Backscatter,” the
work takes a single day’s worth of news broadcasts from all
of the major cable news networks, and reprocesses this information
into a suite of seven “passages” that takes us from early
morning, midday, afternoon, and into late evening. The live audio
interface, custom-designed by Zbyszysnki, allows the composer to extract
data from individual horizontal lines of video using a Wacom tablet,
and uses this data to “sculpt” the audio in real time. “Overture” is
the first of the seven passages, representing an entry point into
the news information set. This section does not employ the interface
designed by Zbyszysnki, but only the found audio from the source material.
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Featured Artist:
Anthony
Discenza Oakland,
CA
Viewing # 1 09:30
“Viewing # 1” represents a more recent shift in my work
towards the use of text. The work is a meditation on the proliferation
of images in the age of information, and the limits of both textual
and visual modes of representation. Assembled from fragments of texts
gathered by searching Google for a specific phrase--“as the
image becomes”-- the work uses a computer-generated voice to
describe an imaginary image under continuously shifting terms, in
order to construct a wholly internal viewing experience.
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Featured Artist:
Anthony
Discenza & Torsten Z. Burns Oakland,
CA
AfterLifers: Walking & Talking (ExtenDead
Version) HalfLifers 22:30
The HalfLifers, an ongoing collaboration between Anthony DIscenza
and Torsten Z. Burns, exhume cinema’s favorite incarnation
of mindless, decaying mortality in the hopes of breathing new
life into this misunderstood figure. From a panel discussion
in an old TV studio to a quarantined helicopter high above California’s
rolling hills, we join a pair of life-challenged entities as
they walk, talk, and chew over some of the more difficult questions
of this “whole linear birth-death system.”
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