ACRE TV

Category: Tele-novela

  • “Hold Me Now” Michael Robinson

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    Hold Me Now

    Michael Robinson
    2008
    05:00

    Plagued by blindness, sloth, and devotion, a troubled scene from Little House On The Prairie offers itself up to karaoke exorcism. -MR

    “[T]he often ingratiating nostalgia of the long-running drama Little House On The Prairie takes a free fall in an unsettling sequence of agony metamorphosing into Exorcist-like bodily possession.  Made for the PDX Film Festival’s ‘Karaoke Throwdown’ and thus featuring another instrumental track of the Thompson Twin’s eponymous song, the longing lyrics absurdly subtitle a slowed-down passage of Melissa Sue Anderson’s character rising upon waking, shaking in convulsions, and smashing a bedroom window with her hands (all while her husband tries in vain to hold her).” – Henriette Huldisch, Aurora: The Infinite Measure, Fall 2008

    Airing September 23 – 26, 2015

    As part of Tele-novela

  • “The Maze” Rosa Menkman

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    The Maze

    Rosa Menkman
    2015
    Single channel video
    02:00

    Out on the wastes of the Never Never Maze –
    That’s where the Lost Boys lie!
    There where the waves dance forever –
    That’s where the Boys lie!

    rosa-menkman.blogspot.com

    Airing September 23 – 30, October 13 – 15, & 28 – 30, 2015

    As part of Tele-novela

  • “Untitled” Karthik Pandian

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    Untitled

    Karthik Pandian

    Three 30 second videos from the late-aughts.

    vilmagold.com/artist/karthik-pandian

    Airing September 23 – 26, 2015

    As part of Tele-novela

  • “The Dark, Krystle” Michael Robinson

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    The Dark, Krystle

    Michael Robinson
    2013
    09:34

    The cabin is on fire! Krystle can’t stop crying, Alexis won’t stop drinking, and the fabric of existence hangs in the balance, again and again and again.

    “The Dark, Krystle brilliantly re-purposes the artificiality of stock gesture, allowing viewers to see its hollowness and to feel it recharging with new emotional power. Equal parts archival fashion show and feminist morality play, Robinson’s montage rekindles the unfinished business of identity, consumption, and excess in 1980s pop culture.”
- Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago 2014

    Airing September 23 – 26, 2015
    & during Tele-novela HIGHLIGHTS, October 31, 2015

    As part of Tele-novela

  • “The Chronicles of L” Ann Oren

    “The Chronicles of L” Ann Oren

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    Ann Oren
    2009
    Video, sound
    04:00

    The Chronicles of L follows the actor Luthaire Bluteau on eight different guest appearances on popular TV shows, where he’s typecast in various “bastard” roles, thus creating a single episode around him as a star.

    annoren.com

     

    Airing September 19 – 21, 2015

    As part of Tele-novela

  • “We Know We Are Just Pixels” Laure Prouvost

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    We Know We Are Just Pixels

    Laure Prouvost
    2014
    2 screen HD video
    04:00
    courtesy the artist and MOT International London & Brussels

    Attributing human characteristics to inanimate objects, this video work finds Laure Prouvost’s images forming a conversation amongst themselves. Discussing their existence and vulnerabilities, in relation to the viewer looking at them, the images want to be more than just pixels; they want to explore and exist outside of the machine upon which they are being played. Comments and moving images are juxtaposed; they come and go in a dazzling rhythm. As often in Prouvost’s films, the speed of images and text challenges the limits of perception, for it seems almost impossible for the human eye to catch every piece of visual information in the film. Eventually, the viewer becomes used to the rhythm and finally gives the images the attention they ‘deserve’.

    Airing September 19 – 21, 2015
    & during Tele-novela HIGHLIGHTS, October 31, 2015

    As part of Tele-novela

  • “Commercial Breaks 1-3” Kevin B. Lee

    “Commercial Breaks 1-3” Kevin B. Lee

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    Commercial Breaks 1

    Kevin B. Lee
    Single channel video
    08:25

    Hints of narrative on hyper-consumerism and the Chinese Dream from LED displays in Suzhou.

    Airing September 19 – 21, 2015

    Commercial Breaks 2

    Kevin B. Lee
    Single channel video
    04:47

    Abstractions on hyper-consumerism and the Chinese Dream from LED displays in Suzhou.

    Airing October 9 – 12, 2015

    Commercial Breaks 3

    Kevin B. Lee
    Single channel video
    06:01

    Experimental observations on hyper-consumerism and the Chinese Dream from LED displays in Suzhou.

    Airing October 24 – 27, 2015

    alsolikelife.com
    vimeo.com/kevinblee

    As part of Tele-novela

  • “D.^^.$.®” Samuel Fouracre

    “D.^^.$.®” Samuel Fouracre

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    D.^^.$.®

    Samuel Fouracre

    D.^^.$.® is an evolving project of video clips, which stitch together a kaleidoscopic, twilit world of desire. It’s an unreal world full of dualities, reflections in infinite regress and extreme shades of colour that illuminate individuals as if becoming their perfect self-images. It’s the colour and shade of narcissism, of the world as we want to see it, with ourselves at the centre.

    In this utopia, romance and narcissism circle around each other, somewhere between the individual and the social world, where brands are strangely nowhere to be seen. Here, images are seduction, and seduction is the business of acting oneself perfectly as an image, until there’s no distance between what one is and what one appears to be.

    samuelfouracre.com

    Airing September 16 – 18, 2015

    As part of Tele-novela

  • “Yard Work is Hard Work” Jodie Mack

    “Yard Work is Hard Work” Jodie Mack

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    Yard Work is Hard Work

    Jodie Mack
    2008

    Yard Work is Hard Work is an experimental animation and mini-musical that moonlighting as a romantic comedy. Two lonely singles dream of eternal love,  meet, wed, and learn the perils of homeownership and life in general. Disillusionment + hope in glorious color and song animated with thousands of recycled magazine cut-outs. Original music by Jodie Mack. Instrumentation by Seth Vanek. Made in Chicago.

    jodiemack.com

     

    Airing September 16 – 18, 2015

    As part of Tele-novela

  • “The Ineluctable Modality” Bryan Zanisnik

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    The Ineluctable Modality

    Bryan Zanisnik
    2012
    HD Video
    02:44

    zanisnik.com

    Airing September 13 – 15, 2015

    As part of Tele-novela