Category: RE/NIGHT/LIVE/MARE

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

Variations on the Shadow My Decaying Corpse Will Cast

Richard Haley

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

Pre-Enactment of Rubbing a Hole in My Corpse, Variations on the Shadow My Decaying Corpse Will Cast, and Proposal For Actions To Be Performed With My Ashes Once I have Deceased are animations and a video from my series of work titled Rehearsals. These particular works rehearse performances that my body will enact once I have died, extending the hand and presence of the artist into the realm of post-breath. In addition to the videos, myself and my students will give a live play by play analysis reviewing the rehearsals.

richardhaley.com

Picture This

Lauren Valley

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

Picture This is a fictionalized “How To” music video created for millennials.

Through the use of robotics and 3D worlds, the viewer is instructed to use a series of impractical robots to navigate the exaggerated struggles of a young person’s life.

Set in impossible worlds to uptempo music, “Picture This” exists in a space between an internet meme, popup advertisement, and a web sketch-comedy show.

LaurenValley.com