Short interview with Project Projects @ DesignBureau.
Tell No One
Very nice video experiments from Tell No One
Spinning Fan from Tell No One on Vimeo.
Falling Balloons from Tell No One on Vimeo.
Tennis Ball from Tell No One on Vimeo.
5 x 7
Collaborators Alex Fuller and Gabe Usadel have turned their projects into a “new super indie publishing company called, 5 x 7”. They also just launched their third book, Levels and Degrees of Light.
The Agonal Phase / Decodings
At Nightengale Theatre
1084 North Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago, IL
Saturday, February 26 / 7:30pm
Requested donation: $8
The Agonal Phase (2010, HD video, 44 minutes,) by Jennifer Montgomery
“In the aftermath of a death things may seem very quiet, but there are struggles going on so deep not even those who struggle can recognize them. This film looks and listens for signs of those struggles. Psychoanalytic interjections consider the nature of time and rumination, and are used to step outside of the terribly interiorized state of mourning.” JM
“The agonal phase: the visible events that take place when life is in the act of extricating itself from protoplasm too compromised to sustain it any longer. They are like some violent outbursts of protest arising deep in the primitive unconscious raging against the too-hasty departure of the spirit; no matter its preparation by even months of antecedent illness, the body often is reluctant to agree to the divorce.” Sherwin Nuland, from How We Die
Decodings (1988, b/w 16mm sound, 16 minutes) by Michael Wallin
“Wallin’s achievement in Decodings is to create a powerfully inventive work that conveys with dramatic intensity strong feelings of remembrance and loss from images that have been extracted from the culture. … Wallin has succeeded in creating from various film sources a work that emphasizes the fragility and ultimate vulnerability of human expression and relationships.” – John G. Hanhardt, Whitney Biennial catalogue, 1989
“Michael Wallin’s Decodings is a profoundly moving, allegorical search for identity from the documents of collective memory, in this case, found footage from the ’40s and ’50s. … The search for self ends in aching poignancy with stills of a boy and his mother at the kitchen table, catching the moment that marks the dawning of anguish and loss; desire becomes imprinted on that which was long ago.” – Manohla Dargis, The Village Voice
(via Nightengale)
Conversations at the Edge
from SAIC: Ten weeks of public programming organized by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Department of Film, Video, New Media, and Animation (FVNMA) in collaboration with the Gene Siskel Film Center and the Video Data Bank begin Thursday, February 3, with a program of shorts by celebrated No Wave filmmaker Vivienne Dick. Highlights of the new season include appearances by Martha Colburn, Rose Lowder, Andrea Geyer, Yael Bartana, Brian Springer, Tony Cokes, Scott Sinclair, Joe Musgrove, Sandra Gibson, Luis Recoder, and Olivia Block.
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Thursday, February 10, 6 p.m.
The Wild Triumphs of Martha Colburn
Martha Colburn in person!
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Thursday, February 17, 6 p.m
Rose Lowder’s Bouquets
Rose Lowder in person!
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Check the complete schedule of Conversations at the Edge (CATE) www.saic.edu/cateblog