Author: tv@acreresidency.org

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Airing throughout the Sunset program, May 10-31, 2015 

An experimental essay regarding alterations in the progression of time. Space shrinks by collapsing the duration it takes for a body to traverse it—or a mind. A railroad redesigns the temporal system of a nation. A man photographs a horse. A woman hallucinates the past.

Weaving together portraiture, travelogue, and landscape The Day of Two Noons uses shifts in space, subject, and historical circumstance to investigate standardized time as a process experiential normalization. Exploring the context in which a cultural experience of time is developed, an outline is formed of experiences that do and do not fit within such a standard. The film attempts a diagnostic on the nervous system of a country. – M.G.

mikegibisser.com

Airing throughout the Sunset program, May 10-31, 2015 

A distant relative gave me a collection of home movies, shot from 1946–2006 by a man named Dean. By persistently recording 60 years of his everyday experiences, Dean captured his own life cycle. From 8mm film to DV, Dean filmed 24 sunsets. Displayed simultaneously—tiled, like a surveillance monitor—at normal speed, 24 tiles of sunset footage begin playing. As the footage runs out, the screen flickers to black, tile by tile. – LM

lauramackin.com

Airing throughout the Sunset program, May 10-31, 2015 

An old dusty beta-max tape, with unknown origins. – AR

andrewrosinski.com

Airing throughout the Sunset program, May 10-31, 2015 

Before the existence of electric lights, photography was know as “heliography” (writing with the sun) and the first camera-less photograms were called sun-prints. Unlike the photography, the photogram does not record the object in a photo-realistic sense, but instead creates a representation of the space surrounding an object. The photogram is a shadow which charts the distance between things.

When my father died, there was never a chance to see his body after life had left it. This film was made by placing his ashes directly on 35mm film in a dark room and moving the film a frame at a time. Wake is a dirge in celluloid. It is a celebration of my fathers life, a meditation on his body and a visual record of mourning. – ES

e.l.j.stewart@gmail.com

Airing throughout the Sunset program, May 10-31, 2015 

At sunset, it is common for one to reflect on the day’s events and consider the next day. Sunset presents a visual symbol for the promise of a new day. It also gloriously rewards the end of the day. Contemplation of the sunset is age-old as we reflect on our existence in the universe. In the three-channel split screen video, I visually draw attention to the metaphorical aspects of the sunset–the past, present, and future. The center camera with its continual gaze at the sunset represents the present. Panning back and forth with the two end cameras reifies the past/future dichotomy of the sunset. To further emphasize this duality, corresponding to the movement of the cameras, I record an audio track of me phonating “sun” and “set”. The three videos create one panorama of the setting sun. The camera movements accentuated by the spoken words sun and set, create a hallucinogenic effect. – RLD

home1.arts.ohio-state.edu/derr34/

Airing throughout the Sunset program, May 10-31, 2015 

In Boyton Beach, Florida, Naomi (age 80) and Irving (90) share the exercise routines that keep them mobile and energetic. An exploration of choreography and the everyday, Naomi’s movements in the pool make maps out of water and light while Irving’s footsteps add rhythm and asphalt to the flow of water. – LB

“A delicate documentary on daily exercises practiced by surprisingly fit Naomi and Irving.”                                                                                                            – Movement on Screen Festival

laurabouza.com

Airing throughout the Sunset program, May 10-31, 2015 

The Pool

1950’s 16mm swimmers dive unknowingly into video-infested waters.

A hybrid project created with found 16mm film projected through a broken glass plate, captured by two daisy-chained video cameras and run through a Vidiffektor (an analog video signal attenuator custom-built by Montreal artist James Schidlowsky). – CLL

nationtime

Cell-phone video footage of exploding fireworks is processed and extended through a series of VHS feedback loops. What was once a momentary blast becomes drawn out in time, emphasizing the beauty of pyrotechnic light, while juxtaposing analog and digital video artifacts. – CLL

vimeo.com/christinelucylatimer
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Airing throughout the High Noon program, April 19-May 10, 2015 

Rapidly moving through a series of associative images, visual puns and plays on words, Ham over Rice combines live action, animation, pictorial text, narration and sound to play off of the Chinese myth of the god Houyi, an archer who saves the world but loses his immortality. – YL

Airing throughout the Sunset program, May 10-31, 2015 

An enigmatic reflection on light and dark and the fragile line that distinguishes being from nothingness. – ES

vimeo.com/eevasiivonen

Airing throughout the Sunset program, May 10-31, 2015