Dreamgirl
Sara Condo
2013
HD Video
28:48
Category: Tele-novela
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“Post Attica Reforms” Bryan Zanisnik
Post Attica Reforms
Bryan Zanisnik
2013
HD Video
03:03Airing September 13 – 15, 2015
As part of Tele-novela
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“outer darkness” Hannah Piper Burns
outer darkness
Hannah Piper Burns
11:18
all music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0there is a murderous violence of banality that, precisely due to its indifference and its monotony, is the subtlest form of extermination. a veritable theatre of cruelty, of our cruelty to ourselves, completely played down and without a drop of blood. a perfect crime in that it abolishes all stakes and erases all traces- but above all in so far as in the murder, we are both the murderers and the victims.
-Jean Baudrillard, Telemorphosis
Airing September 10 – 12, 2015
As part of Tele-novela
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“…Still in the Running Towards Becoming…” Dana Dal Bo
“…STILL in the RUNNING towards BECOMING…”
Dana Dal Bo
10:00“…STILL in the RUNNING towards BECOMING…” is a ten-minute video of re-enacted scenes from two popular American reality television shows; America’s Next Top Model and Toddlers & Tiaras. Both are about displayed beauty judged by “experts”.
The toddler, mother, and teen model are merged creating a generalized anxiety about beauty and self.
America’s Next Top Model started in 2003 and has 23 cycles (seasons) as of 2015. In each episode, during the final moments of elimination, two girls stand before host, Tyra Banks. One of them will be “sent home”. Tyra reveals who will continue on in the competition with the sentence, “[Name], Congratulations! You are still in the running towards becoming America’s Next Top Model.”
The idea of being still, while in the running, and moving towards becoming recalls the Deleuzian conundrum around identity, difference and repetition, and for me encapsulates a current emotional zeitgeist of instability and uncertainty; an in between.
The aesthetic of the video/audio is raw and sketchy, referencing the D.I.Y. quality of contemporary social media when used autobiographically as an extension of the self and constructor of identity.
Airing September 10 – 12, 2015
As part of Tele-novela
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“A Noisy Delivery” GX Jupitter-Larsen
A Noisy Delivery
GX Jupitter-Larsen
2013
60:00Not your typical experimental film, A Noisy Delivery questions the format of meaning rather than the meaning of format. A Noisy Delivery depicts a couple that were going to get together after the girlfriend had dropped off her package, but the boyfriend has to keep waiting. The day turned out to be an attempt in crossing the distance between nothing and something. Everyone, it seems, was at the post office for philosophy instead of postage. The soundtrack is a composition of broken toy pianos and amplified erosion. As the ideas in the movie get more difficult, the soundtrack gets denser.
Airing September 7 – 9, 2015
As part of Tele-novela
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“AIMA” Andrew Rosinski
Aima
Andrew Rosinski
2014
HD video, color, sound
06:28A story of abstracted sunbeams, prismatic movement of light, and a deep sea of sentimentality, featuring words spoken by Anna Karina from Paul Élaurd’s “Capitale de la douleur.”
Airing September 4 – 6, 2015
As part of Tele-novela
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“Kal Pani” Maya Mackrandilal
Kal Pani
Maya Mackrandilal
2014
SD Video with Sound
08:52Where are your monuments, your battles, martyrs?
Where is your tribal memory? Sirs,
In that grey vault. The sea. The sea
has locked them up. The sea is History.
-Derek Walcott, The Sea is HistoryThey called the sea kal pani, black water. To cross it was a rupture, a separation from the land, from culture, from caste, to be forever outside, forever a nomad. This was the journey of my ancestors, as slaves and indentured laborers, from India and China and Africa. Even as farmers, intimately connected to the land, their descendants’ feet would wander. This wandering became another rupture: my mother and her siblings’ migration to the United States. What are we, the generation that exists in the wake of estrangement, to make of the pieces? Acres of rice farm in a country we rarely visit, a creek, and in between: a farmhouse my grandfather built by hand.
Motion sickness: a disconnect between what is seen and what is felt. A cognitive dissonance, a type of metaphor that exists in the body, viscerally. Perhaps this is a sickness we all feel as we carry the legacy of pasts that exist in fragments, in erasures, volumes locked in the sea. Perhaps we can find solidarity in our un-moored-ness, as we stand side by side, casting our nets, examining the flotsam that returns.
Kal Pani is this casting, this examination. The video footage was shot in 2011 in my mother’s native country of Guyana, a former British colony in South America that borders the Caribbean both geographically and culturally. The spoken text of the video was gleaned from writing projects over the past few years, exploring the connections and ruptures of place, treating the fractures within personal histories and marginal traditions as generative spaces to explore larger historical, political, and cultural issues.Airing September 4 – 6, 2015
As part of Tele-novela
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“Lessons I-XXX” Martine Syms
Lessons I-XXX
Martine Syms
2014-15
HD Video
Series of 45Lessons is a series of commercials that use found footage, personal archives, and original footage to compose an extended, incomplete poem about the black radical tradition.
Airing:
Sept 4 – 6: Lessons 1 – 4
Sept 7 – 9: Lessons 5 – 8
Sept 10 – 12: Lessons 9 – 12
Sept 13 – 15: Lessons 13 – 16
Sept 16 – 18: Lessons 17 – 20
Oct 20: Lessons 21 – 24
Oct 21: Lessons 25 – 28
Oct 22: Lessons 29 – 32
Oct 23: Lessons 33 – 36
Oct 28: Lessons 37 – 40
Oct 29: Lessons 41 – 44
Oct 30: Lessons 42 – 45As part of Tele-novela
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“Maria TV” Rodrigo Valenzuela
Maria TV
Rodrigo Valenzuela
2014
HD Video
17:15“Maria TV, interweaves documentation of the everyday activities of Latinas that work as domestic workers with reenactments of their jobs as portrayed in soap operas and movies. I direct reenactments of their roles as they are portrayed on TV interwoven with clips of various telenovelas to create an hybridized narrative. The all-women cast perform for the camera both as the ‘seen on TV’ characters, and as themselves – representing their own stories, their own lives. Playing out like a dress rehearsal of sorts, in combining these materials a slippery space is opened up – one that sits ambiguously between action and enactment, or ‘real life’ and fiction. In doing so, my aim is to evidence and critique the blind-spots in media representation, and at the same time address an under-represented group’s socioeconomic struggles in an engaging and intimate yet playful way.” -RV
Airing September 4 – 6, 2015
& during Tele-novela HIGHLIGHTS, October 31, 2015As part of Tele-novela
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“Shades of Led” Kevin B. Lee
Shades of Led
Kevin B. Lee
Single channel video
03:13A passage from a best-selling American romance novel is translated, re-translated and refracted in a Chinese cityscape through voice and light.Airing September 1 – 3, 2015
As part of Tele-novela
