Author: tv@acreresidency.org

jasonajudd.com

Airing throughout the High Noon program, April 19-May 10, 2015 

Emotional Sundiving considers the New Age as a path toward total fulfillment. The sun’s rays are transmuted into the substances of life through the power of belief. – TB

tonybalko.com

Airing throughout the High Noon program, April 19-May 10, 2015

Is it a window into the cosmos or the mind of a wanderer? It is in fact the sun’s reflection, still and flickering, on the surface of a dark lake. The light dances and skips as dragonflies traverse the landscape and fallen leaves and debris float in the direction of the wind. The video offers a moment of contemplation on one’s own journey and the sun as a beacon and companion, illuminating and steadfast. – KYC

karenychan.com

Airing throughout the Sunrise program, April 1-19, 2015 

Excerpted from a larger work concerning fiber optic technology in South Africa, Nature Gaping exposes fugitive infrastructure hidden among the trees. Throwback audio from the 80s miniseries Shaka Zulu leads to a moment of suspension. – ML

meredithlackey.com

Airing throughout the High Noon program, April 19-May 10, 2015 

“Everything becomes and recurs eternally – escape is impossible!” – Friedrich Nietzche

karllindfilms.com

Airing throughout the High Noon program, April 19-May 10, 2015 

A Poem For You

A young man is reading, apologetically, the poem Words Wide Night to the artist.
It’s a fairly old fashioned gesture. He confesses he has fallen for
her. It’s almost a passage from an epistolary novel.
You then hear the voice of the artist. At first you think she is
reciprocating, but quickly realize she is reciting his poem. Reading
it back.
Her voice is neutral, almost mechanic.
Like a proxy mail server quoting the original before as it bounces it back.
This isn’t reciprocation.
Is she mocking him? Or is she trapped, cursed like the nymph Echo?
(It would make sense if we acknowledge the narcissistic aspect of
poetic courtship).
The original monologue is stripped bare of its earnestness, the words
exposed in their full futility. A futility the poem itself
acknowledges and is now further isolated. In the delivery, in the lack
of an emotional response.

In the background, the water sparkle magically, but noise is diverting
our attention to the limits of technology, and yet it’s just as
mesmerizing. Like some cheap video effect.
The words become a writing in the sand that the water washes away.
In the foreground, a lonely, meagre, commercial phallus of sweetness
is slowly expiring.

There is a longing in the male voice for old fashioned romance. The
reply contrasts that well-meaning reactionary tone with some of the
great forces of our time: technology, hyper-connectedness,
reproduction, commerce, sugar, kitsch…
And yet, there is acceptance that the minefields of desire remain as
sweet, as fragile, as futile in our age as they always were.
The heartbreak and loss remain unchanged, untouched. It is
acknowledged dispassionately.
Only the verdict is faster, more brutal. Binary.
No, the flawed sincerity will not come through, it will bounce back.
Bounce off.
Turned on, turned off.

– EM

edenmitsenmacher.tumblr.com
edenmitsenmacher.wordpress.com

Airing throughout the High Noon program, April 19-May 10, 2015 

A lucid dreamlike trip through the Colorado desert. I was sitting on this footage, saving it for something special, and Jónó’s New Age inspired Untitled mixtape, released in Dec. of 2014 on Wasabi Tapes, was a perfect fit for the sun-bleached, textured landscapes and big skies that it flies through. – EM

wasabitapes.bandcamp.com
cargocollective.com/jonomilo
vimeo.com/elina

Airing throughout the High Noon program, April 19-May 10, 2015 

Untitled (sun) is part of a project, Desert Pictures, that engages with landscape representation through unconventional manipulations of imaging media. In the mid-day brightness of Northern Mexico, I blindly pointed the camera directly at the sun causing overexposure of individual pixels. The chromatic aberrations caused by the malfunction of the camera’s sensor reveal the aesthetic possibilities of failure, depicting the sun as an ever-changing column of light, fringed with green and purple radiations. This sensor “bloom” transforms the image of the sun while exposing the medium’s limits of representation. – RN

rebeccanajdowski.com

Airing throughout the High Noon program, April 19-May 10, 2015