Loop Sanctuary: Dreaming A New Real
An Evening of Projected Short Works
Victoria Bradbury (USA): It's At My Beck And Call (2007)
It's At My Beck And Call remembers the way home and the cycle which keeps us from reaching the other side. I create and manipulate characters who search for spaces of comfort, moving with a judicial anxiety through unusual frontiers and unpredictable worlds.
Andreas Zingerle (Austria): Solargrafica
Solargrafica shows the paths of the Sun by using the oldest camera form. These photographs are taken with a lensless camera with exposure times from 1 day to 6 months. By doing so, the invisible movements of the Sun can be made visible in landscapes. A soundscape of recorded sounds along with granular synthesis processed samples creates a spherical atmosphere.
Richard Lainhart (USA): One Year
One Year is a time lapse film documenting a full year in the life of a Japanese maple tree as seen from my studio window. To create this film, I used a Canon digital SLR camera controlled by a Macintosh computer, which recorded a single frame every hour from June 26, 2006, to June 30, 2007. I decided to use the frames from 11AM as the basis for the film, and rather than display them as single frames at 24 fps in standard time lapse fashion, I chose to cross-dissolve between sets of frames at roughly 1 second per frame. I also processed the frames in After Effects to create a more stylized image. I created the music in a single performance, playing a bowed vibraphone fed into a computer-based digital delay to extend the tones. This showing is the world premiere of the full version of One Year.
Carolyn L. Kane (USA): Window on East 11th Street (2004)
Window is a piece about accessing threshold spaces and uncertain realities. The ability, or inability, to move through and between tense zones creates both trauma and ecstasy. Sometimes the transition is smooth, a lingering or flooding ease-shifting in and out of focus seamlessly, at other times it is violent – a harsh flash and abrupt cut in the duration of time and space. Electronic memory here functions as my remedy and prosthesis; granting a space to return to friends and community living – ultimately countering the monstrous appropriation of real-estate in downtown Manhattan.
Henry Gwiazda (USA): scattered.......wide
scattered.....wide deals with the relationship of sound to imagery divorced from realistic connotations.
Diatonis (USA): Daath (2006)
Daath is a video filmed on the coast of central California. It represents crossing the veil of the abyss and abandon reason to merge with the infinite.
Jihee Min (Canada): A Video
I am female and Asian, living in a multicultural society. As visual identity is most associated with face, my social identify has always been defined by the differences in my visual representation when compared to other Caucasian Americans. This short video is my response to the struggle of integration, of identifying a persona with a dream to assimilate in the societal framework.
Lemeh42 (Santini Michele and Paoloni Lorenza) (Italy): Flor de la Alhambra
Flor de la Alhambra (Flower of the Alhambra) is freely inspired by Washington Irving's tale “The Rose.” The fundamental metaphor is between a woman kidnapped and held prisoner inside the Alhambra, the palace of the sultan and his court, and the roses cultivated in the palace gardens. The walls of the Alhambra isolated its inhabitants from reality and instead of preserving them, it killed them. As the flower needs water and sun, feminine beauty needs it as well.
Jan Hakon Erichsen (Norway):Close To Home (2007)
The camera is pointed at a coffee table at all times. For each new scene, a different object is placed on it. There are not visible people in the film, but one can sense the presence of someone behind the camera doing his utmost to destroy the things on the table.
Sonia Armaniaco (Italy): DREAM VISION (2006)
DREAM VISION is a video poem and it is a poetic investigation on the “transparent” line splitting diurnal and nocturnal experience.
Chris Cassidy (USA): Atlantic Flyway (2006)
The Atlantic Flyway is the latest in an ongoing series of videos entitled Augury inspired by the ancient Roman practice of that name. Augury was an important ritual in Rome and elsewhere, and speaks to the human quest for order in even the most sequence of events. Footage of birds in flight was taken at several locations along the East Coast. To distill the hidden patterns that develop over time, I collapse the individual frames of the footage, allowing each frame to remain, superimposed, on succeeding ones.
Krista Hoefle (USA): This is a type of freak-show parthenogenesis, whose proper place is under carnival lights or in cheap tabloids, not in undying myths or religious systems
Created using appropriated and altered stock video footage, original footage of a “performance” with Nam June Paik's wodulator at the Experimental Television Center, original digital animation created using generative component in Flash, original digital sound, original analog sound with Theremin.
Jon Keppel (USA): Dark (2006)
Dark is taken from a collection of works titled The Surface Stories which focus on the sensory spectacle of common, everyday objects, materials and processes.
Dark in particular takes a pot of boiling water as its subject matter. In it, an unexpected collage of sound is used to map out the visual changes of water as it gains and loses heat. By blurring the line between the notion of a sound effect and score, new and unusual associations are created between what is being seen and what is being heard. At its heart the piece is a meditation on the logistics and possibilities of perception.
Sharon A. Mooney (USA): Room 323, Parts 1 and 3 (2005)
This viewing of Room 323 contains two parts of a three-part video that examines the ability of space to affect the thoughts and actions of those who exist therein. Threaded through the stories are claustrophobic reactions to the characters' own manipulations of their environments, acting as extensions of the same psyche.
Jessical Leza (USA): Vejez Naciente, Naciente Vejez (2007)
Vejez Naciente, Naciente Vejez was serendipitously created in the tradition of the collaborations between composer John Cage and choreographer Merce Cunningham. The film was built with more than 2,500 clay animation frames and live footage of a dancer. The score was created independently by experimental musician Camilo Salazar without consultation on any details except ultimate duration. The music and film was combined for the first time three hours before the first performance.
Anne Niemetz (New Zealand): Void/Light (2007)
In Void/Light, microscopic imagery of beating heart cells is mixed with various footage to create a universe in which micro- and macro cosmos become indistinguishable from each other. The imagery is paralleled by a mesmerizing soundtrack of human voices that mutate into abstract sound and vice versa. The viewer embarks on a journey of transformation, a poetic expression of the transient state of the human in search of a new identity, dazzled by emerging possibilities. At the end, the composition disperses into noise, the voices break down into sound particles, and everything dissolves to allow the birth of a new star.
Lucinda Luvaas (USA): Dance Surreal (2007)
Danse Surreal is part of a group of video shorts that deal with natural imagery as it contrasts with urban environments and sound. In this short, I pay homage to Rene Magritte, who captured the essence of the oneric. In addition, I’ve always been deeply affected by the fact that we can’t stop time. It passes by us and moves on without our being able to control it. Movement which to me can represent time is a vital component and in this film the swirling movement depicts time as it passes, as we grow and diminish-- transforming ourselves from one thing to another.
Sonia Armaniaco (Italy): DREAM and LANDSCAPING (2007)
DREAM and LANDSCAPING is a poetic exploration of the concept of Landscape and its representation related to Dream, considering dreaming as font of information. Some facts suggests that people were introduced to landscapes in imagination/dreaming, then paintings, then landscapes in real life. “Landscaping” here is so related to an imaginal project, the natural scenery as “artefatto,” as oasis.