2014 Festival Program

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FILMS

serios_chapter2_still_01 18 FILMS ABOUT TED SERIOS: CHAPTER TWO
Jim Haynes, 2013, 0:13:25
“18 Films About Ted Serios” is an ongoing expanded cinema project with the second iteration manifesting environmental imagery captured through surveillance and high definition cameras, with allusions to ecological, psychological, and / or psychic turmoil.
julieta-aquatic AQUATIC LONELINESS
Julieta Triangular, 2013, 0:06:50
The daughter of the sun has been released, visiting different memories of her human life and is able to overcome the darkness of death. Messenger of the lunar forces, a body of light.
before-the-portrait BEFORE THE PORTRAIT
Karissa Hahn, 2013, 0:02:12
A reenactment of Waterhouses’s fictional musings while setting up the framing for his portrait, “A Mermaid” (1901).
Burnt_Winter BURNT
Ejection Seat Collective, 2014, 0:10:37
(Anna Winter, David Dagostino, Trevor Jahner, Mango Katz, Laura Babsie Gardner)
They were left behind among the ruins-whispering to birds. The evolving madness of mutual reliance and desire pivoted around the daily ho-hum of existence.
still_En_stein_small2013 EN STEIN (A ROCK) 
Aleksander Johan Andreassen, 2014, 0:02:29
A journey about one person’s relationship to a special rock.
FEVER-01 FEVER
Laura Iancu, 2013, 0:02:08
Fever presents itself as an array combustion of sparkly ornaments, insects and animals – a hot delirium of decomposition by excess.
hall-of-ice HALL OF ICE (LEBANON HANOVER)
Diego Barrera, 2013, 0:06:38
This video is presented as a confrontation – a symbolic representation of a struggle, criticizing the role of religious images (primarily Christian), which serves to indoctrinate us into accepting the norms, educating us to accept corrupted society values, employing blame, ideological superiority, in which “sin” is not understood as a principle of perfection, (and as explained by Oscar Wilde while in prison.)
i-snake-foot I-SNAKE-FOOT
Lili White, 2014, 0:05:20
“I remembered the Egyptians have a letter that combines a snake and foot. A performance meditation on a real-life event of an “S” found on my toe.”
Hand-over-face-L INVERSION
Linda Fenstermaker, 2013, 0:13:00
In a unique blending of perspectives layered around the camera, Inversion creates an open space to expand female consciousness, as an embodiment of the film itself. The film explores a new reality where the female form holds power over the camera.
Invocation-of-Uzi-screenshot INVOCATION OF UZI
Ross Meckfessel, 2014, 0:04:30
Behind-the-scenes documentary of Uzi’s Party: an experimental pagan teen drama by Lyra Hill.
danse L’UN NE VA PAS SANS L’AUTRE
Audréane Beaucage, 2012-2013, 0:06:23
A 16mm film about the quest of introspection of a soloist. By a mountain’s ascension, he takes conscious of the exterior world that is nothing else but himself. His introspection takes him back to his birth: the water.
lunaticus2 LUNATICUS
Marissa Viani Serrano, 2012, 0:02:20
Lunaticus explores the concept of the divine disease with the technical and formal resources of digital video and experimental film.
nightgardener-big THE NIGHTGARDENER
Jennifer Hardacker, 2009, 0:09:00
The life of a garden after dark.
phenomenological THE PHENOMENOLOGICAL LIFE
Stéphanie Luu, 2014, 0:03:35
It’s living and evolving, you have no idea.
production-still-tribeny PATIENT NO.666 & OTHERS
Tribeny Rai, 2013, 0:08:42
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
The-Poorhouse-2011Screen-Shot-1 THE POORHOUSE REVISITED 
Michael Higgins, 2012, 0:14:20
In the time of Ireland’s Great Famine, an elderly gravedigger revisits a traumatic event through the decaying visions of his fragmented dreams.
spirits2 SPIRITS IN SEASON
Stephen Broomer, 2013, 0:12:17
In summer, pilgrims and tourists swarm the spiritualist commune Lily Dale, but in the fall, the village becomes a more intimate setting for spectral communions.
STARK-STILL-2 STARK ELECTRIC JESUS
Hyash Tanmoy and Mrigankasekhar Ganguly, 2014, 0:12:07
After the historical verdict of Indian Supreme Court on IPC 377, an unnatural man finds himself in the cage of hallucination.
fire TOLD HER IN WATER BY FIRE
Sarah Brady, 2014, 0:01:52
Cutout animation exploring mysticism through the elements in domestic Americana.
virgo VIRGO (HOROSCOPE SERIES)
Natalie Tsui, 2014, 0:03:28
Astrological predictions from archive footage.
Toby-Tatum-A-World-Assembled-1 A WORLD ASSEMBLED
Toby Tatum, 2013, 0:03:03
A World Assembled represents Toby Tatum’s creation of an improbable realm, stitched together from a kit of warring elements into a fantastic whole.

INSTALLATIONS

Christine-Lucy-Latimer_The-Magik-Iffektor_film-still THE MAGIK IFFEKTOR
Christine Lucy Latimer, 0:04:30
A video that electronically twists the fates of witches, monkeys, apparitions and conjoined bald men.
Created with found VHS footage.
mia feuer UNTITLED
Mia Feuer, mixed media, 2013

PERFORMANCE

technoccult TECHNOCCULT: COVENANT
Eliot Gardepe, 2014
Technoccult: Covenant, an upcoming visual novel by Eliot Gardepe, uses the sounds of the Yamaha YM2608 and Roland JX-305 and lo-fi imagery to emulate the textures and aesthetics of the NEC PC-98 and early 90s electronic music. Drawing inspiration from the music of Ryu Umemoto and Shōji Meguro and visual novels like EVE Burst Error and Zero Escape: Virtue’s Last Reward, both the game and soundtrack articulate aspects of the psychopunk aesthetic within the context of contemporary narrative art. For more information about the game, set to release this Fall, visit psychopunk.net. For the soundtrack, which is out now, visit music.eliotgardepe.com.