SAIC Film, Video & New Media Department Year-End Show
Posted by | Conversations at the Edge | Posted on | May 3, 2007
Thursday, May 3, 2007, 6pm
Tonight’s program is a cinematic toast to the semester’s end with a cross-section of current work by students in the department of Film, Video & New Media.
All Stars
Jodie Mack, 2006, 0:24 min, 16mm
Colored acetate + star punch + tape = this mini-movie. (JM)
Bird Song Trilogy, Part 1 & Bird Song Trilogy, Part 2
Emily Kuehn, 2007, 5 min, miniDV
Using lo-fi tools and told in only two parts, the author attempts to create a narrative that is simultaneously non-specific and infinitely recognizable. Bird Song Trilogy confronts the flattening of culture and the ethics of false nativity. (EK)
Mysterieuse
Samantha Olschan, 2007, 3 min, miniDV
When a local girl is seduced by the arrival of an enigmatic leopard she is left with more than memory. Mysterieuse is a computer-generated animation deeply influenced by traditional myth as well as collage and printmaking techniques. (SO)
Standing on the Beach in Rimini
Chelsea Knight, 2006, 8 min, miniDV
Standing on the Beach in Rimini is a collection of memories recounted by a traveler in translation. As an analogue to her foreignness, each of the traveler’s “memories” contains an element of personal or cultural estrangement. This work combines the nostalgic, murky vision of the traveler with the invisibility of the migrants, immigrants and displaced populations around her. (CK)
Interruption #5 (The Biggest Shopping Day of the Year Comes Along Just Once a Year)
Chris Royalty, 2005, 2 min, DV)
The Interruption video series investigates the construction of mass-media forms through the use of simple audio overdubbing – as visually un-manipulated works with re-recorded self-narrated audio, they draw attention to the linguistic redundancy and banal verbal conventions of contemporary television broadcasting. (CR)
Strategies of Trust
Gonzalo Escobar, 2006, 4 min, miniDV
This piece aims to illustrate the dynamics of trust based on presumptions, assumptions, and the (contemporary) obvious. Reliance on doubt is allowed. (GE)
It’s Hard to Wreck a Nice Beach / It’s Hard to Recognize Speech
Adebukola Bodunrin, 2007, 10 min excerpt, miniDV
It’s a cultural study and creative autobiography done from the perspective of analyzing speech. (AB)
Black Chair and White Objects
Kyung Woo Han, 2007, 5 min, miniDV
It is a piece that indicates the stereotype of perception that we have in our mind. There is no absolute definition in our lives. (KWH)
Land Escape
Basia Goszczynska, 2007, 7 min, miniDV
While traveling a landscape built from found objects, Land Escape introduces a series of puppets who are soon to be deeply affected by the decaying of their land. (BG)
Interruption #7 (People Get Caught Up)
Chris Royalty, 2006, 2 min, DV
Life Long Love
Jodie Mack, 2006/7, 4 min, 16mm -> miniDV
Two lonely singles dream of eternal love, wonder if it even exists, meet, and wed. This is the opening number to a larger project–Yard Work Is Hard Work –an animated musical. (JM)
Bulb In The Head
Melika Bass, 2006, 5 min, 16mm -> DVcam
An earthen fairy tale. A feast for the living. (MB)
On Poisoning Birds
Kenny Reed & Ben Popp, 2007, 2 min, miniDV
A short film about coming to terms with my childhood. (KR)
Zwischen
Lori Felker, 2006, 2 min, 16mm
Zwischen exists on the thin line between opposing forces. Dirt moves through light to a hand-drawn soundtrack of “zwisch” and silence. (LF)
About
Conversations at the Edge is a weekly series of screenings, performances, and talks by groundbreaking media artists.
CATE is organized by SAIC's Department of Film, Video, New Media, and Animation in collaboration with the Gene Siskel Film Center and SAIC's Video Data Bank.
Programs take place at the Gene Siskel Film Center (164 N. State / Chicago, IL / 312.846.2600), unless otherwise noted.
