Category: NIGHT

AS WITHOUT SO WITHIN

Manuela De Laborde
24:38 min, 2016
16mm & 35mm, color, sound

Airing Nov 8-14 and Dec 6-12, 2016
As part of the NIGHT program

Conceptually informed by the artist’s active filmgoing, AS WITHOUT SO WITHIN takes as its point of departure prop sculptures which are transformed both through hybrid techniques of framing, lighting, and superimposition and by being projected in an enclosed, silent architectural space. AS WITHOUT explores the possibility that the surfaces of things are entities worthy of their own depth for and in themselves, demanding to be seen and confronted as they exist. 

Manuela de Laborde is from Mexico City and studied Film & Video (MFA) at the California Institute of the Arts and received an Art BA at Edinburgh College of Art. In 2012 she exhibited her solo show, Maquettes, in Generator Projects, Dundee; in 2013 screened, Sun, at London MexFest with the live score of Camila Fuchs; her short films Viveros, The exponential Nature of Images and Le Visible et L’Invisible where shown at Antimatter FF, Jihlava IDFF and Milwaukee UFF; and this year her thesis film, As Without So Within, is showing at Toronto International Film Festival, Winnipeg WNDX (Best International Short), and 25fps Festival in Zagreb (Grand Prix), FICM in Morelia, and LightField in San Francisco.

manueladelaborde.com 

hippopotamus

Mark Kent

Airing Nov 8-14 and Dec 6-12, 2016
As part of the NIGHT program

a computer generated world were an astronaut wanders around
not knowing that if he is himself a simulation of a lost world

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I’LL STAY AWAKE

Lauren Kimball-Brown & Julia Zinn
15 min, 2016

Airing Nov 8-14 and Dec 6-12, 2016
As part of the NIGHT program

I’LL STAY AWAKE uses rediscovered audio and film from the creators’ childhoods and college years to construct a fictionalized horror narrative. As night falls, tape recorder games and scary stories at a slumber party give way to a Ouija session, connections with the beyond, voices and visions, and a strange journey down to the basement.

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Early Trial (El Juicio Adelantado)

DSK (Juan Lesta & Belén Montero)
22 min, 2015
Master digital HD 1080 25p
16:9
Sound: ST
Language: Spanish with English subtitles

Airing Nov 8-14 and Dec 6-12, 2016
As part of the NIGHT program

A man, a place, one decision, the story. One poet and his poetry. 

A Víctor M Mozo autobiography’s reflection coded as a videopoetry, through the four seasons. When he began, how he changed along the time and the events, good decisions, concerns… The film shows land linked with his family and his past.

direction DSK (Belén Montero & Juan Lesta)
poetry and script: Víctor Mozo
adaptation script and production: Belén Montero
image: Juan Lesta
edition: Belén Montero
image postproduction, animation: Juan Lesta
original music: David Rivas Domínguez
sound postproduction: Son do Tagalem

starring:
Víctor Mozo as Víctor Mozo
Helena Boemer Martín
Luis Boemer Martín
Pablo Martín Rodríguez
Diego García Castro
María García Castro
Ángel Corral Arroyo
Ainhoa González Pedrero
Sara Mozo Blanco 

ARTISTS (Filmmakers):
Direction:  DSK (Belén Montero and Juan Lesta)
artist’s contact: info@esferobite.com
artists’s web: www.esferobite.com/laboratorio

1-800-FICTION

Heejin Jang
3:26 min, 2016

Airing Nov 8-14 and Dec 6-12, 2016
As part of the NIGHT program

1-800-GET-LOST consists of four experimental video remixes (1-800-FICTION, Bleach Formula, Heikki Laaksonen’s Silent Syllables and 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

Droolworthy

Blanca Rego

Airing Nov 8-14 and Dec 6-12, 2016
As part of the NIGHT program

Between the sublime and the disturbing, a kiss on the mouth always blurs our body boundaries. A dreamy found footage film created from movie and TV series kisses.

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Night Swells

Zachary Epcar

Airing Nov 8-14 and Dec 6-12, 2016
As part of the NIGHT program

And you love that humid atmosphere/ And you look so lush under glass.

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Zuma Cuts

Alejandro Sajgalik

Airing Nov 8-14 and Dec 6-12, 2016
As part of the NIGHT program

Two photographs of a beach house in ruins are displayed on separate LCD screens and sliced. The two screens are in dialogue: each displaying the house’s interior taken a few years apart, at different levels of decay. Akin to the firefighters who used the house in the 1970s to conduct drills and simulations, cutting and removing the screen’s polarizing filter film pushes the limits of its material condition. Between charred wood and the sunset. Between infinitesimal liquid crystals and the expansive space of the Internet.

cargocollective.com/alejsaj

Couldn’t Dream Anywhere

Eden Mitsenmacher

Airing Nov 8-14 and Dec 6-12, 2016
As part of the NIGHT program

I went to the woods today,
Cause I couldn’t dream anywhere
I went to the woods today
Cause I couldn’t dream anywhere
I went to the woods today
But I couldn’t sleep anyway
Why? I couldn’t take away the time

It seems our consciousness is fascinated by our own hands.
It makes sense, for aren’t they a symbol of our agency? That endlessly fragile agency,
the sense of which is mostly constructed, almost dreamt up. Yet we’re searching for it relentlessly.
Hurtling through space like that, is restlessness any wonder?

And so we dream…
We dream meaning into the vortex.
We escape to the woods. Our woods.
We code representations of our imagined bodies into cyberspaces and spend our time
watching them.
Mesmerised.
There’s something out there… Listen carefully. A lullaby. A nursery rhyme. A mantra.
Meaning as self-soothing.

Dreaming while wondering how come we’re running out of places to dream, to even just sleep.
Out of space. Out of time.
So let yourself drift away to the sound of the hum of the spheres.
This too shall pass.

www.edenmitsenmacher.com

Lame Dream Dispatch

Chris Collins
4 parts, 6 min total, 2016

Airing Nov 8-14 and Dec 6-12, 2016
As part of the NIGHT program

“You got 2 have a dream, cuz if you don’t got a dream, how u gonna have a dream come true?”

“To sleep is to elevate the standard of boredom; to sleep and dream of boredom is to elevate the standard of nightmares” -Some poet somewhere, I think maybe. Unless I dreamt it.

Re-enactments, re-interpretations and re-imaginings sourced from the collective unconsciousness’ lame dream journal (which also manifests itself as a tumblr at lamedreamjournal.tumblr.com)

iamchriscollins.com