International Competition 05

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ENTRY

USA 5:00 16mm
DIR Dayna Hanson, Gaelen Hanson CINE Ben Kasulke MUS "Later She Distorts" by Lori Goldstein, performed by The Black Cat Orchestra CHOR/PERFORMANCE Dayna Hanson
"My body finds energy in surrender" -- Deborah Hay. It's a joyous energy surrendered by the spontaneous, delicate figurations of the performer in this petite film by the Seattle-based dance company, 33 Fainting Spells. Freshly delivering on an old cinematic tradition, the horizon generously sets forth the conditions: path, body: emerging, receding. But then there's this moment. -- Steve Ausbury

FIGURES IN THE LANDSCAPE

USA 11:00 16mm
DIR Thomas Comerford
This piece combines pinhole cinematography, audio recorded with a homemade 'macrophone', mundane settings in suburban Illinois, and static figures reading found texts that are long out of date. Through unusual technology and bone dry wit, Comerford observes cultural and environmental change in terms of their generalities rather than specifics. -- Jason Cortlund

UNTITLED PART 3B: (AS IF) BEAUTY NEVER ENDS

LEBANON/CANADA 11:22 VIDEO
DIR Jayce Salloum
A Palestinian man returns to his hometown in Israel after years of exile. The spirit of his old house speaks to him -- recounting how it carried him on his brick shoulders when he was born, and what happened to it after he left. The man and the spirit of the house mourn his return as a visitor and not a liberator. Gritty archival footage, blooming white and pink flowers, and fluorescent graphics loosely illustrate the delicate and powerful poem. -- Susan Youssef

A ROOM WITH A VIEW IN THE FINANCIAL DISTRICT

AUSTRIA/USA 5:00 VIDEO
DIR Carola Dertnig
June 2001. An Austrian artist is granted a studio space on the 91st floor of a certain well-known Manhattan financial landmark. Unable to work effectively in the space, she instead documents the depopulated topography of affluence. -- Julia Halperin

BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS - THE ANGST ARCHIVE

USA 45:00 VIDEO
DIR Ken Kobland
A film about placelessness and Kobland's response to it -- to throw the net of his soul wide, wider, over everything. Always two steps ahead of the viewer, the filmmaker weaves together images and sounds that didn't seem to belong together before, resulting in a sprawling work that is part confession, part provocation and part meditation on technology consumption and spiritual death. -- Isaac Mathes

THIS IS THE BIKE RIDE TO WORK

USA 10:00 SUPER 8
DIR Stephanie Gray
. A personal geography of real and imaginary landmarks: the familiar is made strange, the past reflects the future, and the concrete is made poetic, so that the daily bike ride becomes a meditation. -- Julia Halperin