Program 1 - Friday, November 11th, 2016 @ 7pm
The Lab (2948 16th Street, SF, CA)
Total running time: 67 minutes
$6 - 10 sliding scale (advance tickets here)
Hay Algo Y Se Va
Kimberly Forero-Arnias
2014 / 3 minutes / USA / 16mm / sound
Family footage is gathered and sifted to create a perpetual sea of bodies, gestures and gazes that collide to create a familiar yet estranging reunion.
-KFA
Energize
Pablo Valencia
2013 / 1 minute / USA / super 8mm / silent
Toxic Shock
Vanessa Renwick
1983 / 3 minutes / USA / 16mm / sound
A visceral personal response to surviving a near-fatal case of Toxic Shock Syndrome. Toxic Shock combines intimate taboos of needles, blood and tampons with tried and true hands-on self-defense, set to a spare, penetrating and unknown score provided by a cassette tape gifted by a forgotten friend. A call to arms; what will you do in defense of your body?
-VR
Spotlight on a Brick Wall
Alee Peoples & Mike Stoltz
2016 / 8 minutes / USA / 16mm /sound
A performance film that navigates expectations of both the audience and the makers. A series of false starts. Dub treatment on the laugh track.
-AP & MS
Hotel Cartograph
Scott Stark
1983 / 12 minutes / USA / 16mm / sound
A camera mounted on a movable cart, pointing down at the floor, passes over a seemingly endless succession of gaudy carpets and surfaces in a single shot through a major hotel. The movements across the 2-dimensional space, and in and out of elevators through 3-dimensional space, suggest a conceptual map of the visible environment, which is perhaps drawn by the camera itself.
-SS
Narcissi
Shiloh Cinquemani
2013 / 3 minutes / USA / 16mm / silent
A Berlin spring still-life.
-SC
Blue
Shiloh Cinquemani
2013 / 3 minutes / USA / 16mm / silent
Ode to the unique blue of the discontinued Kodak Ektachrome. A clear blue California sky made of clouds of film grain.
-SC
Roundtrip
Philippe Leonard
2014 / 3 minutes / USA/Canada / 16mm / silent
A diptych filmed on a journey between Montreal and New York City. My last roll of Ektachrome to commemorate an important day when two became unified in the act of giving.
-PL
Late Light
Matt Whitman
2015 / 3 minutes / USA / 16mm / silent
Clouds
of
light
became
precious
when
she
died
-MW
THEM APPLES
Adam R. Levine
2016 / 3 minutes / USA / 16mm / sound / US premiere
Using the parallel temporal forms of the three-minute pop song and the 16mm camera roll, THEM APPLES runs The Beatles' "Back In The U.S.S.R." through iTunes Visualizer to create an optical sound experiment in which synaesthesia and pop cultural memory are turned back on themselves.
-ARL
If You Can't See My Mirrors, I Can't See You
Alee Peoples
2016 / 12 minutes / USA / 16mm / sound
A study of the frame. An equal exchange between friends.
-AP
Tune In
Esther Johnson
2006 / 14 minutes / UK / 16mm / sound
"Ham Radio, the Space Age hobby where the world is your friend"
Tune In follows the fascinating world of amateur radio operators. Although amateur by definition, HAMS (translating as an acronym for "Help All Mankind") undertake a rigorous licensing exam covering strict regulations and intellectually challenging technical knowledge. As well as being considered the fourth emergency service, providing backup when power and phone lines are down, HAMS, once they master the know-how, can be transported beyond the confines of their everyday existence with "do-it-yourself" radio technology. By connecting documentary with a textured soundtrack, Tune In transects the politics of space and social communication unveiling the peculiar world of the radio ham.
-EJ