Announcing a new program “Evolution and Life of the Mind, Body, and Medium”
Cut and Run: Evolution and Life of the Mind, Body, and Medium.
We are born, we grow, we experience a world of our own perceptions. We wonder who we’re becoming, we are influenced and we experiment. We become responsible for how we develop. We can change and reshape who we are and what we know by the powers we grant ourselves. This Cut and Run series focuses on cycles of minds, bodies, and filmstrips. Each work represents a perspective of itself as one, in contrast to others. Experience a cinematic evolution through cycles of the mind, body, and medium in this montage from filmmakers throughout the world.
12 Erased Trailers by Alberto Cabrera Bernal (2010, Spain, 11 minutes)
“Appropriation cinema from twelve 16mm trailers, to which their original promotional purpose is denied, by pulverizing the medium with an electric drill. The original images, now deleted, remind us of works from other genres as Rauschenberg’s Erased de Kooning Drawing, or Asger Jorn’s early paintings.”
Peeks by Jo Dery (2009, USA, 3 minutes)
“Momentary glimpses of construction and destruction in our man-made and natural world, made with the help of images collaged from National Geographic.”
Aliki by Richard Wiebe (2010, Cyprus, USA, 5 minutes)
“Lake Aliki, Cyprus. For centuries, countless flamingos have wintered here from Iran. Rimbaud encountered them when he worked a quarry in Larnaca. 7th century Arabs described them to mark the burial site of Umm Haram, aunt of the Prophet Muhammad. It is said that Lazarus spent his days on the shores of this lake after his resurrection, staring into the sun to shake off the darkness of the grave. The Greeks represented flamingos in poetry, the Romans slaughtered them for their tongues. Today, a man sings:
Pharmacist, oh pharmacist, oh pharmacist,
I want medicine for myself, I want medicine for myself,
My heart, my heart, my heart is beating like this,
My heart is afflicted because of you.”
Body by Frederic Cousseau (2010, France,7 minutes)
“The body of a beast changing: real or nightmarish images of the own body.”
Cat’s Cradle by Ray Rea (2010, USA, 4 minutes)
“Cat’s Cradle combines traditional film animation techniques with digital effects to create a formal experiment that centers around trial, error, and transformation. Although this piece does not have overt GLBT content, I am a Bisexual Transsexual man and the images are not about transformation and variety by accident.”
Memories by Sylvia Schedelbauer (2004, Germany, 19 minutes)
“A woman grows up during the bubbly economy in Japan. Why did her parents never speak about the past? Using a box full of photos found in her family archive, the filmmaker tries to construct one version of a family history.”
Lilly by Jodie Mack (2007, USA, 6 minutes)
“Animated photo-negatives illustrate a WWII tragedy.”
Cuts in Motion by Brenda Contreras (2008, USA, 5.5 minutes)
“A drift into the subconscious. This mixed media performance piece combines blood and swing sets with the words of marketing executives.”
*More films will be added to the lineup
July 17 2010 - Grand Detour, Portland Oregon July 31 - ATA, San Francisco, California August 14 - Beatnik Studios, Sacramento, California August 21 - Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, California
