International Competition 11

50 MILES OF ELBOW ROOM

• Alamo Drafthouse Downtown, Thursday, 7:00PM
• The Hideout, Saturday, 11:45AM

THE GRIFFITH CIRCLE: HIDE AND SEEK

HONG KONG 4:00 VIDEO
DIR Ip Yuk-Yiu
A revolving melodrama that hinges on the best and worst of intentions, on doors open and shut, on entrances and exits looped and spun to a point of choreographic beatitude and dizzy formalist redemption. -- Spencer Parsons

LE SILENCE EST EN MARCHE

FRANCE 3:30 VIDEO
DIR Pierre-Yves Cruaud
An eerie surveillance experiment of people on the go. -- Jason Cortlund

THE GEOSOPHIST'S TEARS

USA 8:00 VIDEO
DIR Peter Rose
A road movie of landscapes displaced, translated, and reconstructed in perfect linear proportions and motions. -- David Nolen

PAPER ROUTE

CANADA 24:00 VIDEO
DIR Robert Frank
Frank combines the tropes of late 60s cinematic aesthetics with the abundant facility of video to create a haunting meditation on notions of "home." The subjects at once warm to and dismiss the familiar recording device allowing us to enter their community via the dedicated and humble feats of a Nova Scotia paper deliveryman. This man's generosity and Frank's poignant videography leave us humbled. -- Cauleen Smith

ON A FRONTIER OF WIRES

USA 14:00 SUPER 8
DIR James Elaine MUS William Basinski
Elegantly composed. Rigorously photographed, this formal gem melts steel and bronzes organic matter. A blend of trees, bride girders, and other powerful yet fragile temples of the industrial age blended with a contemplative soundtrack producing a gentle drive by, a temporal sculpture. -- Cauleen Smith

HALLOWE'EN

AUSTRIA/GERMANY 3:00 16mm
DIR Kerstin Cmelka
A ghost ship documented in triptych configuration. -- David Nolen

THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE DIVIDING LINE

USA 20:00 16mm
DIR David Gatten
Conflicting descriptions of the same territory by the same William Byrd fracture in an attempt to inhabit the same space, yielding to obscure landscapes that vividly depict the numerical distances relegated to an appendix. As subtly rhythmic and droll as it is outwardly austere, David Gatten's continued perusal of the Byrd library generously rewards patience with its faithful curiosity. -- Spencer Parsons