In Transfer of Attention a crumbling handmade facsimile of a golden beet is held against the sky in place of and in opposition to the sun. Over the course of the video I
“Cicadas in the Sun” Jean-Michel Rolland
Despite the oppressive heat of the late afternoon on the hills of Marseille, the cicadas keep on singing. The overexposed video, burnt by the bite of the sun, reveals mixtures of unreal colors that meets
“Untitled (white)” Max Grey
New York, Summer 2014 https://vimeo.com/maxgrey Airing throughout the High Noon program, April 19-May 10,
“Optick I: blinded” Thomas Dexter
A small video camera is slowly destroyed by focused sunlight, reenacting / interpreting one of Isaac Newton’s early investigations into the nature of light and visual perception. Isaac Newton – in an undated letter to John
“The End Sands” Aaron Oldenburg
A videogame: Avoid the sun during the day. At night collect the burnt bodies of other creatures for food. 3D textures are made with cyanotypes, images rendered through the sun’s UV rays. – AO aaronoldenburg.net Airing
“Azimuth” and “Zombie Bling” Dana Carter
Zombie Bling Azimuth Fabric scrims, sunlight and snowlight commingle as a process of rhythmic cutwork and stop motion animation conjure up the well known SMPTE test card pattern. As the angle of the sun shifts the
“Short” Robert Todd
Light sleeps and rises, and sleeps again along the shoreline of day. Dramatic winkings to the surprising glory of summer. – RT www.roberttoddfilms.com Airing throughout the High Noon program, April 19-May 10,
“luminiferous aether” Amy Hicks
Luminiferous Aether is titled after the 18th-19th century hypothesis that the Earth moves through a medium of aether that propagates light. Through a combination of animation and live video, I collage electronic pigment, archival
” A Bao A Qu” John Szczepaniak
Airing throughout the High Noon program, April 19-May 10,
“The Take-Up” Patrick Tarrant
The Take-Up consists of one take, a fixed frame, variable speed flicker effect, and just a single sound edit. For all this, the film unspools an audio-visual mystery that looks at digital video anew, and