Shorts 4: luminous tendril of celestial wish
Logan Theatre
2646 N Milwaukee Ave
IL
41.92969840038649
-87.7088258159199
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SHORTS PROGRAM 4: luminous tendril of celestial wishFriday May 15, 9:00 pmTheater 1FallingRobert Todd7 min., 16mm, 2015, USA“Moving through fall’s end and beginning, falling.” - Robert Todd1 part 7Reynold Reynolds6 min., 16mm on video, 2014, USA/Germany“1 Part 7 takes as its point of departure a Renaissance image that purports to demonstrate the rules of linear mathematical perspective, to take up historically similar questions of experience and of self. The work connects its own exploration of often-troubled relationships between viewing positions, visual technologies, and notions of modernity, “back to a far earlier period, when the very notion of a ‘technology of viewing’ was first being forged.” It offers a simultaneous crashing together of linear perspective, anamorphosis, and sfumato, together with other visual modes and systems, implicitly comparing early Renaissance revisions to perspective to those realized through digital technology. This raises issues of the possibility of permeable boundaries among objects and between physical and virtual worlds, and radical revisions of notions of space and scale. The resultant possibilities offer new conceptions of space and representation that challenge those who suggest the digital world will subvert the physical.One Part Seven incorporates stop motion animation, bringing together mural installations, constructed models and objects, and performers to investigate ideas of Space, Time, Scale and Perception.” - Reynold ReynoldsSoundPrintMonteith McCollum8 min., video, 2014, USA“SoundPrint' explores the marks left by sonic frequencies on various materials and landscapes, natural and artificial. Imagery from optical soundtracks and micro photography of record grooves play against similar signals received by sand, water, and people. The sounds of of the Ocean, booming sand dunes and the Midshipman toadfish are the backdrop for a rich exploration of the subtleties of written and transcribed sound.” - Monteith McCollumDie BergfrauKerstin Neuwirth18 min., 16mm on video, 2014, Austria/Germany“Hallways. Doors. A donkey. The mother. Water is flooding the room. A girl in a river between vision and memory.” - Kerstin NeuwirthThe Queen of MaterialRajee Samarasinghe2 min, 16mm on video, 2014, Sri Lanka/USA“A short procession of colorful material and a mysterious woman lit by the sun. A paean to Kenneth Anger.” - Rajee SamarasingheAtlantisBen Russell24 min., Video, 2014, Malta"We Utopians are happy / This will last forever" Loosely framed by Plato's invocation of the lost continent of Atlantis in 360 BC and its re-re-resurrection via a 1970s science fiction pulp novel, Atlantis is a documentary portrait of Utopia -- an island that has never / forever existed beneath our too-mortal feet. Herein is folk song and pagan rite, religious march and reflected temple, the sea that surrounds us all. Even though we are slowly sinking, we are happy and content. "Atlantis interrogates this space of fabulation without ever leaving the real island behind, finding itself caught between a portrait of place and the conjuring of a drowned paradise." --Erika Balsom, ArtforumLa Isla está Encantada con Ustedes (The Island Is Enchanted with You)Alexander Carver & Daniel Schmidt28 min., video, 2014, USA/Switzerland/Australia“In 1511, Indigenous people in Puerto Rico seduced and murdered a representative of colonial power. Some 300 years later, a further chapter of colonial history: in 1803, by order of the Spanish Crown, a doctor named Francisco Javiér de Balmis travelled to Puerto Rico with a number of orphans. They were carriers of the live vaccine with which Balmis executed one of the first mass immunisations against smallpox. Switch to the present day: in 2014, Puerto Rico produced an enormous amount of pharmaceuticals with subsidies from the USA. By interweaving strands of colonial and postcolonial history, the filmmakers of La Isla está Encantada con Ustedes have created a lyrical work that mirrors and expands on dynamics of power and lust. A modern roundelay that restages the past in the present. Led by a gaze of sexual innuendo, this is a comedy in which reality is subordinate to strategies of power – while revealing the closely intertwined nature of health and economics, in the past and present.” - Berlinale
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Start:
2015-05-15T21:00:00-05:00
End:
2015-05-15T22:30:00-05:00
Category
Film
Tickets
General Admission
9.0
USD
154