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2008 8.30pm - Featured Artist Bill Basquin |
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Samara
Halperin Bay
Area, CA
Hard Hat Required 03:10
Conditions can be rough on the construction site.
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Jack
Dingo Ryan Nashville,
TN
I Fell for You 01:01
Ryan’s work is informed by ideas associated with our relationship
to the landscape and philosophical concepts like pathetic fallacy,
the sublime and frontier theory.
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Claire
Burch Berkeley,
CA
ART and EDUCATION Media 08:59
Documentary about our failed health system. Giving a mentally ill
woman living on the street a voice.
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Michael & Alan Fleming La
Grange Park, IL
Untitled 04:06
This video captures a series of interventions in urban spaces. Through
continual attempts at balance, twin brothers, Michael & Alan,
mimic structural elements of the architecture. These momentary sculptures
created by their figures take place in the peripheral landscape
of the everyday. Their poses become formal comments on the architecture
while simultaneously questioning the body’s relationship to
urban space. The video ultimately brings up questions of identity,
phenomenology and uniformity.
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Gerard
Freixes Ribera Igualada,
Spain
Aislado (Isolated) 03:30
Exploration of loneliness and anonymity in urban crowds through
the comparison between isolation in today’s metropolis and
the iconic image of a shipwreck on a desert island.
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Anita
Sarrett & Gloria Bonilla Oakland,
CA
The
Knitting Factory 02:50
The Knitting Factory is a film exploring the interplay of the past
with the present and the interaction of handwork and labor.
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Bang Geul Han Royal
Oak, MI
3 things that mom doesn’t have to know 09:18
3 short narratives on correction, juxtaposition, and composition.
Through the interplay among colors, sound, fictional stories and
interviews...address the issues of sexualities & cultural taboos
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Karl
Heinz Jeron Berlin,
Germany
Binge Eating 02:47
Video about a person suffering from a binge eating disorder. The
film uses found footage material retrieved from Google Image Search.
The search was on fashion and serotonin. Binge Eating is the attempt
to describe a real situation and a possible experience. It is about
perceptions and feelings.
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Herb
Heinz & Andrew Juris San
Francisco, CA
Les Sommeils d’Homme (Field of Bread) 03:25
A surrealist sojourn narrating life as a journey laden with
bread metaphors. Part parody of film noir and part existentialist
exploration of observance and participation.
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Katherine Terumi Shorb Austin,
TX
task/in-progress 05:36
task/in-progress is about race and masculinity. It
uses non-linear imagery of repetitive motion to explore the monotony
of masculinity and its inter-connected relationship to colonial
mentalities. By locating certain iterations of masculinity on female,
queer, and racialized bodies, it challenges the audience to contemplate
the political and social implications of mundane, everyday rituals
and events.
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Corrine
Bot Rotterdam,
NL
Two Sides of the Mirror 02:30
The male & female side of a boyish girl. While performing typically
masculine behaviour (shaving ‘her’ beard), the girl
is confronted with her feminine side in the mirror.
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Ranu Mukherjee San
Francisco, CA
Sustenance 02:15
Sustenance is a short representing a larger body of work involving
my reading to my babies--a set of triplets born in December 2006.
I read science fiction while breastfeeding and art theory during
play time in an attempt to feed us all simultaneously and make some
absurd but authentic points of connection between babies (and motherhood),
art and futurism. The readings in this short art excerpts from ‘The
Scar’ China Mieville (on liquidity), JG Ballard ‘The
Drowned World’ (one of the earlier texts on climate change
(1962)) and Thierry DeDuve ‘Kant After Duchamp’ (on
art and love). The documentary and the textual are augmented by
decorative and illustrative elements, casting video as a contemporary
form of illuminated manuscript.
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Jan Hakon Erichsen Oslo,
Norway
Close to Home 01:16
The camera is pointed at a coffee table at all times. For each new
scene a different object is placed on it. There are no visible people
in the film, but one can sense the presence of someone behind the
camera doing his utmost to destroy things on the table.
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Richard
Jochum New
York, NY
Man/Woman 10:00
Man/Woman is a project in which 30 people, on their walk through
Central Park in New York, were asked whether they regard themselves
to be a man or a woman. The question finds them unprepared--as the
audience may notice in the diversity of the answers. Produced in
collaboration with Voom HD Lab, it turned into a sociological inquiry
with some expected, some surprising, answers. Short cuts about people’s
self-representation, their ultimately blurred notion of sex, identity
and gender.
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Featured Artist:
Bill Basquin San
Francisco, CA
Mission Movie Theatres 03.00
1998. 16mm film. black & white. Silent.
Part of the Mission Diptych. Filmed in San Francisco, California on
Super-8mm film. A sometimes nostalgic glimpse at the movie theatres
of San Francisco’s
Mission neighborhood.
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Featured Artist:
Bill Basquin San
Francisco, CA
14th and Valencia 03.00
1998. 16mm film. black & white. Silent.
Part of the Mission Diptych. Filmed in San Francisco, California on Super-8mm film. An atmospheric
bit of open space in the city.
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Featured Artist:
Bill Basquin San
Francisco, CA
The Ride 10.00
2000. 16mm film. Color. Narrative.
Filmed in Manteca and Oakdale California. A meditative adventure story
in which the gender of a small town cab driver is the mumbled conversation
piece. Received a 2001 Golden Gate Award from the San Francisco International
Film Festival. Cast: Judith Williams, Cooper Bombardier, Mark
Haggarty Crew: Bill Basquin (writer, director, editor), Robert Poswall
(camera), Christian Bruno (2nd camera, gaffer), Abigail Severance
(assistant camera), Monroe Cummings (sound recordist), Elise Hurwitz
(sound design), Natalija Vekic and Laurel Frank (production design),
Jennifer Jordan Day (production manager), Justine Franko (script supervisor),
Laurel Sharp (still photographer), Bridgette Coldren (make-up and
hair), Deron Tse (key grip), Max Miller (best boy), Rock Ross (titles),
Lewis Motisher (negative cutting)
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Featured Artist:
Bill Basquin San
Francisco, CA
The Last Day of November 04.00
Part of the Range Triptych. Black & White.
Filmed in Wisconsin. On
a cold November day, we follow a family of deer hunters from the field
back to the barn. Cast: Frank Murn, Don Murn, Patrick Murn,
Chris Johnson Crew: Bill Basquin (direction, camera, edit),
Elise Hurwitz (sound mix and design), Bruce Miller (optical
printing), Rock Ross (titles), Lewis Motisher (negative cutter)
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Featured Artist:
Bill Basquin San
Francisco, CA
Martin 05.00
Part of the Range Triptych. Black & White.
Filmed in New Zealand. A farmer
shears a sheep and shares his thoughts on rural life and work.
Cast: Martin Denton, sheep Crew: Bill Basquin (direction, camera,
and edit), Elise Hurwitz (sound design), Bruce Miller (optical
printing), Rock Ross (titles), Lewis Motisher (negative cutting)
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Featured Artist:
Bill Basquin San
Francisco, CA
Range 07.00
Part of the Range Triptych. Black & White.
A conversation about ranching and family between the filmmaker and
his father. This film received a Personal Works Grant in 2004 from
the Film Arts Foundation and was presented at the 2006 Sundance Film
Festival. Cast: Peter Basquin, Jessie Basquin, Anne Basquin, Jeanine
Basquin, Sam Moore, Angela Moore, Chris Moore Crew: Bill Basquin (direction,
camera, and edit), Anne Basquin (camera), Jessie Basquin (camera),
Elise Hurwitz (sound design), Bruce Miler (optical printing), Rock
Ross (titles), Lewis Motisher (negative cutting)
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Featured Artist:
Bill Basquin San
Francisco, CA
Frank 02.00
2007. Black & White.
Filmed in Wisconsin. A conversation with Frank Murn about the button
box accordion.
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