Assumptions of Your Phantom(sy) – Karissa Hahn
ASSUMPTIONS OF YOUR PHANTOM(SY); Karissa Hahn; Super8; TRT: 1:53 The glorious nature of a phantom-like entity, in the midst of vulnerability. How do your films come about? My work is quite often derived from a text, or it manifests as some reaction to an event – usually concerning desire. All of my work has been […]
Bell & Howell – Ana Rodríguez León
Bell & HOWELL; Ana Rodríguez León; 8mm & Super 8; TRT: 8.56 A trip from the past to the future via the camera. What was your creative process? In 2010, I was part of the team of the Super 8 festival Toma Única, a kind of tourné-monté cinema festival. It was decided to make a […]
Black Rectangle – Rhayne Vermette
BLACK RECTANGLE; (2013); Rhayne Vermette; 16mm; TRT: 1.30 Inspired by the slow death of Kasimir Malevich’s painting, Black Square, this film documents a tedious process of dismantling and reassembling 16 mm found footage. The film collage imitates functions of a curtain, while the recorded optical track describes the film’s subsequent destruction during its first projection. […]
Damn You Vougue – Júlia Portella & Melina Schleder
DAMN YOU VOUGUE; Júlia Portella & Melina Schleder; TRT: 11.10 The desire to fit in and the way that desire can consume you. Was this a film school project? No, it’s a movie we did sometime after we graduated and that we decided to do with no money How did this film come about? This […]
Dispossessed – Julia Jin
DISPOSSESSED; (2013) Julia Jin; B/W and color 16mm; sound from HDV Vixia camcorder; 76mm and 26mm lens – TRT: 7.46 A journey reconciling the notions of the home and its paraphernalia as a private space through close textures and a subtle orchestra of sounds. What was your creative process with this film? I didn’t have […]
Even Gray Feels Blue – Negin Sharifzadeh
EVEN GRAY FEELS BLUE; Negin Sharifzadeh; TRT: 8.18 Individual memory: Collective memory – not separated, rather there is an interaction of the two. The echoes of the individual move into collective realities. Sorrow becomes social malaise. Tell us about “Shabaneh,” the poem you used by Ahmad Shamlou. Ahmad Shamlou was one of the most important […]
Forbidden Fruit – Cinzia Sarto
FORBIDDEN FRUIT; Cinzia Sarto; miniDV; TRT: 4.44 An original sin encounter of lovers, from initial collision, to orbiting round each other. I realized much later that the origin of this video was an image from “Yol”, a Turkish film directed by Yilmaz Guney that I saw in 1982. In the film a man is forced […]
Gowanus Haze – Margaret Rorison
GOWANUS HAZE; (2012); Margaret Rorison; 16MM; TRT: 5:41 The Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn New York, associated with grime and desolation, combines with my voice and excerpts of stories from my demented grandfather. Why did you want to make this film? Out of nostalgia! Greenwood Heights was the last neighborhood that I lived in before I […]
In Recovery – Alex Hovet
IN RECOVERY; (2013) Alex Hovet; Super 8; TRT: 2.55 In Recovery challenges my father’s memory with my own. This film is constructed from scanned prints of family photographs which I subjected to a randomized glitching process using a program called GoldMosh. The photographs become warped and are degraded as their code is broken down, creating […]
Inversion – Linda Fenstermaker
INVERSION; (2102) Linda Fenstermaker; 16mm; TRT: 13.01 Blending perspectives layered around the camera, this film creates an open space to expand female consciousness, as an embodiment of the film itself. What was your creative process with this film? Inversion descends from my desire to push the bounds placed upon female representation. I wanted to explore […]
Landslag – Kyja K-Nelson
LANDSLAG; Kyja K-Nelson; mini DV; TRT: 4.00 The gesture of natural forces that physically and metaphysically shape the Skagafjordur region of Iceland. How did you make this movie, where was it shot? Landslag was shot during the summer of 2004, primarily on the northern coast of Iceland in the region of Skagafjordur, from where my […]
Light Streaming – Kathleen Rugh
LIGHT STREAMING; (2012); Kathleen Rugh; 16MM; TRT: 6.19 In landscapes where tunnels of light and the continual flow of water act as a connecting force, a couple of answers to questions. How did this film come about? The film was shot over a couple of years in numerous locations. I shot on the Oregon coast, […]
Lost In a Glass of Water – Cinzia Sarto
LOST IN A GLASS OF WATER; Cinzia Sarto; digi; TRT: 2.06 A disjointed view in need of a compass. An attempt to walk holding a magnifying lens – an instrument to clean the eye while offering the most precious and simple of all gifts. The irony of the title mirrors the elusiveness of losing oneself. […]
On the Road – Naz Shahrokh
ON THE ROAD (be fekret hastam); Naz Shahrokh; digi, TRT: 6:40 The work is a conversation with Jack Kerouac and his novel On the Road; with the energy of the Beat Generation and the philosophy inherent with that period of Zen Buddhism, of living in the now, while walking through the journey of life. Its […]
One Mississippi – Rebecca Louise Tiernan
ONE MISSISSIPPI; (2009) Rebecca Louise Tiernan; Music: I Will be Done by Amigo Male Singers D.O.P: Ben Jones; 16MM ; TRT: 5:05 A psycho-narrative of four girls playing skipping rhymes in a barren field with a lonesome Scarecrow. I shot this movie when about 5 years ago in Cornwall, England. I was in art school […]
Paradise – Noe Kidder
PARADISE; (2011) Noe Kidder; 16MM; Music: Chris Becker; TRT: 10.00 Filmed in Lisbon, Kauai and Catskill New York: challenging the viewer, as well as my own experience of loss. I made Paradise as a personal response to my father’s death. Creatively, it was a ritual act of mourning, but also a way to pay tribute […]
Pen Up the Pigs – Kelly Gallagher
PEN UP THE PIGS; (2014); Kelly Gallagher; TRT: 12.00 This animated film draws explicit parallels between slavery and modern day institutionalized racism and mass incarceration. Histories of radical resistance against white supremacy are explored and celebrated. Through cut-out animation, the natural world and human world confront each other through kinetic and violent motion, frame by […]
Reveries – Karissa Hahn
REVERIES; Karissa Hahn; SUPER 8; TRT: 3.38 Aristotle’s belief: … the organs, not just the eye, retains the image … these sensations are retained and return to haunt the sleep … Bodies are vessels that take in images – Can we not see ghosts because our eye lags perception and we miss it? Are ghosts […]
The Borough – Kelly Oliver
THE BOROUGH; (2009); Kelly Oliver; Digi; TRT: 1.32 There are a lot of ugly things in this world. I wish I could protect you from them. There is a line in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird in which the character Atticus Finch says to his son, “There’s a lot of ugly things in this […]
The Kitchen Sink – Lili White
THE KITCHEN SINK; (2010); Lili White; digi; TRT: 11.24 Bombarding you with information about the Earth and our food, that straddles the physical and metaphysical stratum, presenting implications that stretch between humor and horrific reality. What was your creative process with this film? I wanted to bombard the viewer with information about the Earth and […]
Tricks are for Kiddo – Rhayne Vermette
TRICKS ARE FOR KIDDO; Rhayne Vermette; 16mm; TRT: 2.22 In 2010, Winnipeg director, Guy Maddin exclaims: It’s impossible to collage a film! Tell us about the source material used in Tricks Are For Kiddo, and about your creative process with it. The source material came from the found footage readily available at the Winnipeg Film […]
Una Sporca Vacanza (Dirty Vacation) – Cinzia Sarto
UNA SPORCA VACANZA (DIRTY VACATION); (2010); Cinzia Sarto; digi; TRT: 7.00 Inside a labyrinth of cement cubes, debris by the sea, humans distracted by the rituals of vacation seem indifferent to the world surrounding them. A veiled woman is searches for a way out. This was my first video experiment were in the same frame […]
Victoria – Olivia Ciummo
VICTORIA; (2012); Olivia Ciummo; Digi, TRT: 10:21 Three sisters search for a place to rest in different landscapes – versions of utopia are taken away, leaving them with impressions of a war. How did this film come about, and what is it about? Victoria came about as a way to explore cyclical ideas in a […]
Working With Nature – This is My Show – Lori Felker
WORKING WITH NATURE – THIS IS MY SHOW; (2011) Lori Felker; Digi; TRT: 14:44 Working with Nature can be grueling and painful, but your hostess Adrienne is ready and willing to walk you through what it takes to perfect and control your surroundings. Your method seems to have a lot of humor to it, this […]
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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 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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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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