Category: LIVE

Clara

Janelle VanderKelen
8 min, 2016

Airing Nov 15-21 and Dec 13-19, 2016
As part of the LIVE program

The repetitive motions of the canning process quietly remap the accreted horrors of female labor that intervenes in the lifespan of a vegetable arrested in forever-summer. A circuitous wandering explores this process and confuses conceptions of time and space as seasons accumulate into undifferentiated years of feminine relation to and reinvention of natural growth cycles. The physical constraints of the domestic and embodied architectures are eventually completely subverted by the excessive act of preservation.

janellevanderkelen.com

Heikki Laaksonen’s Silent Syllables

Heejin Jang
4:15 min, 2014

Airing Nov 15-21 and Dec 13-19, 2016
As part of the LIVE program

1-800-GET-LOST consists of four experimental video remixes (1-800-FICTION, Bleach Formula, Heikki Laaksonen’s Silent Syllables, Pink Trilogy). The project addresses the moment when the countless struggle to establish a sense of connectedness eventually conjure up an endless nightmare that overwhelms the physicality of life.

By reediting and overlaying language, pop-culture phenomenon, smartphone clips, and found footages from the Internet, the convolution of layered moments will demonstrate the itineraries to the nature of chaos, or the views of induced panic. 

heejinjang.com

The Murf Never Sleeps

Dakota Gearhart
3:37 min

Airing Nov 15-21 and Dec 13-19, 2016
As part of the LIVE program

During a residency at a recycling processing plant in Seattle, WA, USA, I was able to spend time observing the act of remixing, re-sensing, and of course, recycling. First off, the smell when you enter the factory (which is lovingly called the Murf) is enough to make most people gag, but for me, the putrid sour milk and rat poop aromas provoked me to consider what kinds of objects society leaves behind. Once this question is brought up, a nightmarish Kafka-like scene is brought on; the sensations of which I share in the short video collage I created. Everything in the video is unmanipulated and in real time, even though in some scenes it looks as if sped up or animated.

dakotagearhart.com

Autómata

Don Anahí & Aby White

Airing Nov 15-21 and Dec 13-19, 2016
As part of the LIVE program

This video talks about the domain

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SNAKE-FOOT

Lili White
5:20 min, 2015
color, silent

Airing Nov 15-21 and Dec 13-19, 2016
As part of the LIVE program

“Dedicated to my Mother who has moved to the other side.

One day, in real-life, I found an “S” had appeared on my toe.

I “performed” in Nature as a meditation on this event, remembering that the Egyptians have a sign that combines a snake and foot, which I don’t know the meaning of.

SNAKE-FOOT was built using a kind of dreamy stream of consciousness approach to the edit. Its techniques and framed shots are intended to convey the “dream-body”. Dreams act as a transforming flight that allows one to see more deeply into that which matters most — knowledge gained thru them can transform our life…

I used many taped experiences of snakes that I accumulated over the years: one crossing a road, another asleep on top of snake petro-glyphs in Alabama, one caged as a “pet”, a rattlesnake in the zoo. One was found on a staircase, which led to the idea of a descent, as the snake does when it retires into its lair; and so a “Persephone descent into Underworld” world occurs, as the Underworld is the place that is also considered the realm of dreams, ruled by Neptune that also rules over illusion, the cinema, film itself, and water — all these are included here in scenes where the sleeping person rolls over.

SNAKE-FOOT is the first of a trilogy that includes WATER WORKS and CUMIA.” -LW

liliwhite.com