Category: RE/NIGHT/LIVE/MARE

Bleach Formula

Heejin Jang
6:54 min, 2014

Airing Nov 1-7 and Nov 29 – Dec 5, 2016
As part of the RE 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

What We Make of Our MisFortunes

Arthur Tuoto
60 min, 2014

Airing Nov 1-7 and Nov 29 – Dec 5, 2016
As part of the RE program

From a found footage material, the film tells the fable of the Monsters, describing the human condition from a tragic and desolate point of view. 

arthurtuoto.com

Proposal For Actions To Be Performed With My Ashes Once I have Deceased

Richard Haley

Airing Nov 1-7 and Nov 29 – Dec 5, 2016
As part of the RE 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

the waiting hotel

Mark Kent

Airing Nov 1-7 and Nov 29 – Dec 5, 2016
As part of the RE program

an old man talks about contacting the dead and the kind of problems you can encounter
an empty hotel were the dead wait before the afterlife

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Maps to the In-Between

Katya Yakubov
8 min 23 sec, 2015
HD video

Airing Nov 1-7 and Nov 29 – Dec 5, 2016
As part of the RE program

A mining of a digital space finds characters and forms in dialogue, and a playful hint of narrative begins to emerge in this twice-appropriated landscape. Eventually, the great Apparition lets it all fall down.

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Fly high or I fly above you

Paul Wiersbinski
Berlin, 2016

Airing Nov 1-7 and Nov 29 – Dec 5, 2016
As part of the RE program

Since the age of alchemy there is a constant pattern in history: Monsters appear in between the gaps of the social world and the realm of nature. It is this abyss, which yields them. In our time this divide is our relationship to the apparatuses we constructed and which autonomy we cannot fully grasp anymore.

A tale of Kate and her revenge or two drones, who carry a sculpture and a costume. A showcase of a choreography for a flog of pigs or text on the ceiling. Talk of destruction and emptiness or the future.

CREDITS
produced within a residency at Künstlerdorf Schöppingen e.V.
Hanna Hildebrand (Camera / Costumes)
Christian Hagerman (Camera / Drone Operator)
Wieland Schönfelder (Speaker / 3D Effects)
Maxi Mira Gallbrecht (Speaker)
Sabine Akiko Ahrendt (Violine)
Yoshiko Klein (Flute)
Bauer Hillmann (Location)

Bennie and the Heads

Lauren Valley

Airing Nov 1-7 and Nov 29 – Dec 5, 2016
As part of the RE program

Bennie and the Heads is a visual exploration into the world of performative robotics. Featuring a cast of comic yet unsetting cartoon heads, the video attempts to evaluate and subvert the idea that all machines must have function and purpose.

laurenvalley.com

The Gedelovskys

Antonio Antón
11 min, 2014
Original Format: Super 8
Language: Spanish
Subtitles: English

Airing Nov 1-7 and Nov 29 – Dec 5, 2016
As part of the RE program

A home recordings illustrate my family history, which it’s nothing more than an amount of rubbish I never thought launch out. The family as a cell, members of the “unity” as characters through the word contour descriptions.

CREDITS
Direction: Antonio Antón
Sound Edit & Mix: Antuán Duanel
Edit: Antonio Antón
Color: Pablo Moya / Michel Rey
Best Boy: Alex Pachón
© 2014, Antonio Antón

Je Proclame la Destruction

Arthur Tuoto
3 min, 2014

Airing Nov 1-7 and Nov 29 – Dec 5, 2016
As part of the RE program

Two shots from the movie Le diable probablement (1977), by Robert Bresson, are repeated in a loop, creating a cyclic and endless raccord. The constant repetition of the phrase “Je proclame la destruction” (I proclaim destruction) reveals an anarchist mantra of universal and timeless power.

arthurtuoto.com

Victory Dance

Music, concept, quilt by Leslie Rogers
Dancing by Emmy Bright
2016

Airing Nov 1-7 and Nov 29 – Dec 5, 2016
As part of the RE program

Mercy Brown was a talented quilter, and the last suspected vampire in America. She died of consumption at the age of 19 in Exeter, RI in 1892, following her mother and sister. Because the ground is frozen in January, she was kept in an above-ground tomb until the ground thawed in spring and she was buried. Because the temperature is lower above ground in the winter than underground, she was frozen solid and preserved without decomposition. As her brother Edwin struggled with the same disease (tuberculosis), which was much feared and poorly understood, three men from town pressured their father to exhume the three women’s bodies and have them examined for evidence of vampirism. They believed that the family was plagued by a moral disease manifesting as a physical ailment and that one of the three women was the source. Though their father didn’t believe in vampirism, he went along with the plan believing their suspicion would be proven wrong. The three men had decided before the bodies were examined that if there were blood in one of the women’s hearts, she was the vampire. The medical examiner they hired explained beforehand that blood in the heart was a common occurrence in the recently deceased and to be expected. Because Mercy’s body had been frozen solid above ground and preserved without decomposition until her recent spring burial, there was still blood in her heart. The three men took the blood and lack of decomposition as confirmation of their suspicion, burned her heart on a rock in the graveyard, mixed the ashes with water, and forced Edwin to drink them in order to kill the vampire and save him. He died two months later. Her quilt survives them all. The quilt featured here is a recreation of Mercy’s work.

Special Thanks:
Emmy Bright (dancing)
Angela DiVeglia & the Providence Public Library (research)
AS220 (time in Rhode Island)
Margaret Hull (stitching)
Elspeth Schulze (stitching)
Rich Main (stitching)
Scott Murphy (music lessons)
Stamps School of Art & Design (support)
Michigan Society of Fellows (support)

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