Light sleeps and rises, and sleeps again along the shoreline of day. Dramatic winkings to the surprising glory of summer. – RT
Category: High Noon
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“luminiferous aether” Amy Hicks
Luminiferous Aether is titled after the 18th-19th century hypothesis that the Earth moves through a medium of aether that propagates light. Through a combination of animation and live video, I collage electronic pigment, archival images, sourced sound, and video footage in order to make visible the illusive orgone energy psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich saw when he looked skyward.
I began this project when I saw a photograph of an FDA official modeling the use of an orgone shooter, blanket, and hat in Cabinet Magazine. The photograph, dating from 1956, accompanied Christopher Turner’s article on the cultural significance of Wilhelm Reich’s legacy. In 2012 I traveled to Orgonon, Maine searching the sky for answers to ideological questions. I followed the footsteps of Wilhelm Reich, Dusan Makavejev, Kate Bush, William Burroughs, and fellow curious travelers. So began my journey, waxing on unintended consequences, irrational beliefs, natural phenomena, and the wonder of error. – AH
Airing throughout the High Noon program, April 19-May 10, 2015
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” A Bao A Qu” John Szczepaniak
Airing throughout the High Noon program, April 19-May 10, 2015
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“The Take-Up” Patrick Tarrant
The Take-Up consists of one take, a fixed frame, variable speed flicker effect, and just a single sound edit. For all this, the film unspools an audio-visual mystery that looks at digital video anew, and at celluloid sideways. This dark puzzle mixes documentary didacticism and mechanical movie magic to reveal the wonder that lies dormant in a mundane street scene. – PT
Airing throughout the High Noon program, April 19-May 10, 2015
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“Emotional Sundiving” Tony Balko
Emotional Sundiving considers the New Age as a path toward total fulfillment. The sun’s rays are transmuted into the substances of life through the power of belief. – TB
Airing throughout the High Noon program, April 19-May 10, 2015
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“Pilgrimage” Karen Y. Chan
Is it a window into the cosmos or the mind of a wanderer? It is in fact the sun’s reflection, still and flickering, on the surface of a dark lake. The light dances and skips as dragonflies traverse the landscape and fallen leaves and debris float in the direction of the wind. The video offers a moment of contemplation on one’s own journey and the sun as a beacon and companion, illuminating and steadfast. – KYC
Airing throughout the Sunrise program, April 1-19, 2015
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“Nature Gaping” Meredith Lackey
Excerpted from a larger work concerning fiber optic technology in South Africa, Nature Gaping exposes fugitive infrastructure hidden among the trees. Throwback audio from the 80s miniseries Shaka Zulu leads to a moment of suspension. – ML
Airing throughout the High Noon program, April 19-May 10, 2015
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“A Brief Portrait of the The Eternal Recurrence” Karl Lind
“Everything becomes and recurs eternally – escape is impossible!” – Friedrich Nietzche
Airing throughout the High Noon program, April 19-May 10, 2015
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“A Poem For You” Eden Mitsenmacher
A Poem For You
A young man is reading, apologetically, the poem Words Wide Night to the artist.
It’s a fairly old fashioned gesture. He confesses he has fallen for
her. It’s almost a passage from an epistolary novel.
You then hear the voice of the artist. At first you think she is
reciprocating, but quickly realize she is reciting his poem. Reading
it back.
Her voice is neutral, almost mechanic.
Like a proxy mail server quoting the original before as it bounces it back.
This isn’t reciprocation.
Is she mocking him? Or is she trapped, cursed like the nymph Echo?
(It would make sense if we acknowledge the narcissistic aspect of
poetic courtship).
The original monologue is stripped bare of its earnestness, the words
exposed in their full futility. A futility the poem itself
acknowledges and is now further isolated. In the delivery, in the lack
of an emotional response.In the background, the water sparkle magically, but noise is diverting
our attention to the limits of technology, and yet it’s just as
mesmerizing. Like some cheap video effect.
The words become a writing in the sand that the water washes away.
In the foreground, a lonely, meagre, commercial phallus of sweetness
is slowly expiring.There is a longing in the male voice for old fashioned romance. The
reply contrasts that well-meaning reactionary tone with some of the
great forces of our time: technology, hyper-connectedness,
reproduction, commerce, sugar, kitsch…
And yet, there is acceptance that the minefields of desire remain as
sweet, as fragile, as futile in our age as they always were.
The heartbreak and loss remain unchanged, untouched. It is
acknowledged dispassionately.
Only the verdict is faster, more brutal. Binary.
No, the flawed sincerity will not come through, it will bounce back.
Bounce off.
Turned on, turned off.– EM
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