2198 Ghosts In The Sun, People In The Sea – Yvette Granata
2198 GHOSTS IN THE SUN, PEOPLE IN THE SEA; Yvette Granata; TRT: 3.20 Split-screen and vertical motion, and a series of 2,198 photographs taken in my deceased grandparents home in Abruzzo, Italy. 2198 GHOSTS IN THE SUN, PEOPLE IN THE SEA is a reorganization of day and night. Displayed in split-screen and vertical motion, the […]
A Pattern Language – Tara Nelson
A PATTERN LANGUAGE; (2010); Tara Merenda Nelson; 16mm; TRT: 3.00 Charles Zehnde’s Kugel Gips house in Wellfleet Massachusetts, and the Romanian B Minor scale. What was the inspiration for this film? In 2010, I was invited by filmmaker Ericka Beckman to participate in a residency through the Cape Cod Modern House Trust. I lived in […]
Alessandra Cianelli
Alessandra Cianelli Story of the Octopus with a Heartshaped Head from 2007 in Show 5 Animal’s Planet I have chosen to live and work in Naples, South Italy. I graduated from the Fine Arts Accademy in Naples and studied Philosophy at I.U.O, Naples. I am currently studying yoga. My work combines traditional arts (sculpture, photography, video, […]
Alex Hovet
Alex Hovet ‘s IN RECOVERY from 2013 was made with Super 8. It is in Show 7 Mother Nature / Human Nature Alex Hovet’s work in photography and video explores the relationship between image and memory, and the degradation of both. Her work investigates the impulse to create narratives from anonymous imagery and the struggle […]
Carolyn Radlo & Alanna Simone
Carolyn Radlo & Alanna Simone – And This Forest Will be a Desert; (2010); Music: Wardruna; TRT: 2.33 in Show 5 Animal’s Planet C+A Projects comprises Carolyn Radlo and Alanna Simone, a mother-daughter team of artists based in California and Chicago. They collaborate on projects which deal with social and political situations communicated through sparse […]
Ceallaigh At Kilmainham – Kelly Gallagher
CEALLAIGH AT KILMAINHAM; (2013); Kelly Gallagher; TRT: 7.00 Found family footage collaged and handcrafted: An exploration of land, roots, radical history, and the strength of the women who came before me. Q: What was your creative process with this film? (Ceallaigh at Kilmainham) I took a trip to Ireland a few years ago and learned […]
Coleen Fitzgibbon
Coleen Fitzgibbon – Rose Selavee; (2014) in Show 6 Psychedelic States was shot with an iPhone 4; TRT: 5.00 Coleen Fitzgibbon is an experimental film artist based in NYC. Fitzgibbon has screened her work at international film festivals, museums and galleries, including New Museum, Salon94, Louis B. James Gallery, MOCA/LA Film Forum, Austrian VIENNALE, TIFF, […]
Displacement – Liliana Resnick
DISPLACEMENT; (2012); Liliana Resnick; Super 8mm and 35mm to Digi; TRT: 7.20 Time is not linear. A woman’s past, present and future spiral within simultaneously. DISPLACEMENT references “time”— can you comment on the chosen images in this piece? DISPLACEMENT explores a state of feelings of a woman who suddenly realizes that her present is a […]
Fabienne Gautier
Fabienne Gautier – Iceland; (2006); TRT: 4.19 , was shot in B&W Super 8, and is in Show 5 Animal’s Planet Fabienne Gautier is an artist and filmmaker living in Paris. Her works include several medias like film, video, installations and photography. Her work has been shown internationally in galleries and festivals including the New […]
Fonction Panorama Lgku990 – Caroline Bernard
FONCTION PANORAMA LGKU990; (2010); Caroline Bernard; Digi; TRT: 5.48 The timeline of life and feelings trapped in time and space. A kind of timeline, the timeline of life, of feelings, feelings trapped in time and space, and it’s also a metaphor of tired feeling in a love relationship. A loving duet between the cameraman, and […]
Gyre-ation – Beth Portnoy
GYRE-ATION; (2012); Beth Portnoy; Digi; TRT: 6.48 Gyre-ation is a visual exploration of resistance to and acceptance of the forces outside of ourselves. “Gyre” is a circular or spiral form found in nature: rotating ocean currents; wind curl; concentric circles formed by leaves or flower petals. Gyre-ation is a visual exploration of resistance to and […]
Hull – Tara Merenda Nelson
HULL; (2013); Tara Merenda Nelson; TRT: 7.22 A journey between layers of corporal consciousness, exploring the physical memory of trauma, and the psychological repercussions of a surgical disaster. Your reason for creating this work: At the age of 34 I had surgery that resulted in the unexpected loss of my uterus. Since the surgery, the […]
Karissa Hahn
Karissa Hahn Assumptions of Your Phantom(sy); (2012); Super 8; TRT: 1:53 is in Show 7 Mother Nature / Human Nature Reveries; (2013); Super 8 to Digi; TRT: 3.38 is in Show 9 Beyond the Body’s Frame Karissa Hahn is an artist and filmmaker based in LA; a graduate from CalArts . She has explored many different visual […]
Korona – Lena Ditte Nissen
KORONA; (2013); Lena Ditte Nissen; TRT: 10.20 Mist ascends from the moor and curls up like figures out of the soil. Statement about this work: Ambience reaches from the words that are spoken ever so feebly, while shedding successive layers of tremor, and construe a world of sensuous experience. Overwhelming, cast out from the realm of […]
Kyja Kristjansson-Nelson
Kyja Kristjansson-Nelson Landslag; Show 7 – Mother Nature / Human Nature Look Out Point; Show 25 – Through My Skin Kyja Kristjansson-Nelson’s films and videos have been presented at festivals and galleries in Asia, Europe, North America and Australia. K-Nelson has screened at venues such as the Walker Art Center, the D.C. National Museum for […]
Leila Jarman
Leila Jarman – UPBEAT NOTHINGNESS; (2012); With: Mike Leisz & Sandhya Daemgen; Digi; TRT: 3:14 is found in Show 6 Psychedelic States In Berlin, five people “stuck” and restricted by routine, breakout, upon finding their truest selves thru color and forms of movement. Leila Jarman is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. […]
Make Me A Doorway – Alexzenia Davis & Jesse Russell Brooks
MAKE ME A DOORWAY; (2012); Jesse Russell Brooks & Alexzenia Davis; TRT: 3.36 Three poems and their attitude: Make Me, My Silhouette, and A Lady’s Psyche written by Alexzenia Davis. Can you summarize briefly what “Make Me A Doorway” is about? Three visually distinctive women consider lost love during a rush of mixed media footage, […]
Memorais – Ana Rodríguez León
MEMORAIS; (2012); Ana Rodríguez León; TRT: 7.01 Moments before than the Earth explodes, a woman remembers her relationship with a man. Moments before than the Earth explodes, a woman remembers her relationship with a man at the beginning of the 21st century. But soon, the border between what really happen and what could had happen, […]
Missing Green – Joey Huertas Aka Jane Public
MISSING GREEN; (2011); Joey Huertas aka Jane Public; Pixelvision & 16mm color negative; TRT: 9.39 Searching for a ghost. Erin Green, a college student, who has gone missing on account of her own clinical depression I was inspired to make ‘MISSING GREEN’ by a challenge I had made to myself: making a different type of […]
Muriel Montini
Muriel Montini – Constellation; (2011); Digi; TRT: 5.00 is in Show 5 Animal’s Planet Muriel Montini studied cinema. She lives and works in Paris. Since 2000, she has made several movies screened in different international important institutions and festivals. She currently works on different films projects.
Push / Pull / Recover – Terra Long
PUSH / PULL / RECOVER; (2013); Terra Long; TRT: 3.39 A meditation on motion through stillness with breath. Shot in single frames on 16mm and hand painted. Made at a process cinema workshop in Cuba, Push/Pull/Recover is a meditation on motion through stillness with breath. Shot in single frames on 16mm and hand painted. Push / […]
She Learns To Lunge – Katya Yakubov
SHE LEARNS TO LUNGE; (2009); Katya Yakubov; TRT: 8.30 How many shapes do the terrors of the mind take? Several transformations lead to an awakening between a modern house and a dark forest. What as your creative process with this film? Over several months, there was a slow accumulation of seemingly-disparate, time-based images, playing on […]
The Broken News Series: Disaster – Lori Felker
THE BROKEN NEWS SERIES: DISASTER (2012); Lori Felker; TRT: 5.00 This comes from an experiment/performance: an intimate attempt at reporting, mediating and being mediated. Your method seems to have a lot of humor to it, this is unusual in experimental films, how did this come about? I like to call these videos “TV-shaped”. I’ve done […]
Toxic Park – Cinzia Sarto & Emita Frigato
TOXIC PARK; (2012); Cinzia Sarto & Emita Frigato; Digi; TRT: 11.22 Trapped in the Amusement Park, a child’s perceptions waver between illusion and reality. A young girl stares at the transformation of her own reflection into a robotic Avatar until she finally disappears. There seems to be a lot of social concerns in your works […]
Tudor Village: A One Shot Deal – Rhayne Vermette
TUDOR VILLAGE: A ONE SHOT DEAL; (2012); Rhayne Vermette; 16mm; TRT: 5:15 In pursuit of an eclipse, the citizens of Winnipeg flee the city. Meanwhile, stranded in Tudor Village, the caretaker does his best to interrupt their trajectory & entice everyone to return. Did you use found footage for this film? This film is a […]
Ye Mimi
Ye Mimi – Was Being Moved? (2012); Digi; TRT: 11.00 is in Show 6 Psychedelic States Ye Mimi is a Taiwanese poet and filmmaker. A graduate of the MFA Creative Writing Department at Dong Hwa University and the MFA Film Department at School of the Art Institute of Chicago, she is the author of […]
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I don't follow Vance but did hear about his comment about "cat ladies" which occurred around the time I was writing my book CAT MOTHER a picture book (for adults) with a magical story. ![]()
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"Geni, childless, asthmatic, a 60+ artist, and COVID widow sinks deeper into depression upon the demise of her beloved pet cat. She considers suicideing in the desert, but Earth’s elements, talking animals, familial ghosts, and a puma spirit have other plans for her... "![]()
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THE LAST TRAIN the 1st film of a Triptych along with WALK IN JANU S ARY and THE COLOR OF WIND (on vVIMEO), that respond to the COVID era. The COVID pandemic...
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The Blues Society: A Documentary Film
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Blues masters and beatniks created a festival in Memphis in 1966; this doc tells their story and re-evaluates the 1960s blues revival for tof=day's viewers.
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Today we are publicly starting the crowdfunding campaign for the documentary Paradeiros (Whereabouts. The film portrays the reality of forced disappearances in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) through two perspectives: that of the domestic worker Sandra searching for her missing son Leandro; and that of state agents who deal with the many disappearance cases that arrive at police stations every day, in a city largely occupied by armed groups. ![]()
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The film is almost done, and the fundraiser is to cover the very final expenses. Here there is a link to the film's teaser - www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZC1h97TbCM![]()
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Here there is the link to the fundraiser page (Benfeitoria) where you can also check out the documentary teaser and a brief history of the project in English just below the portuguese version -![]()
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If you donate from the US, be aware of some bureaucratic tasks that a kickstarter there wouldn't ask for, like filling in an Identification Number (it can be your state I.D., no need to fill your Security Number), and also address. In the address field you can file the District field as n/a.![]()
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If there is any other way you think you would like to collaborate, please don't hesitate to reach out for me. If you wish to contribute but is having problems with the website, please don't hesitate to contact RITA PIFFER 🙂![]()
For last, the suggested amounts are in Brazilian Reais- $100 Reais are like $20 dollars, 200$ are like $40dollars.![]()
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Documentário de 72 min. sobre desaparecimentos forçados no Rio de Janeiro atual. // A feature documentary about forced disappearances in Rio de Janeiro today.
"On Our Own Terms" - 1st official trailer
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