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Logan Theatre
2646 N Milwaukee Ave
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SHORTS PROGRAM 1: sonnet entitled how to run the world)Thursday May 14, 7:00pm Theater 3Broken JawRussell Sheaffer5 min., 16mm on video, 2013, USA“A self portrait locked on repeat, Broken Jaw explores the filmmaker's fractured body and subjectivity as he grapples with the interplay between the lasting physical remnants of trauma and a total lack of memory.” - Russell SheafferSpecial FeaturesJames N. Kienitz Wilkins12 min., video, 2014, USA“In a lo-fi fragment from an unnamed video production, an interviewee interacts with an interviewer, recounting a special experience at once unique and shared.” - James N. Kienitz WilkinsBabashLisa Truttmann & Behrouz Rae9 min., video, 2014, USA/Austria/Iran“Babash is a multi-lingual parrot who lives in Los Angeles. Behrouz Rae has made friends with him over the years. Our short film is a colorful portrait of this special relationship.” - Lisa Truttmann & Behrouz RaeDiscussion Questions, presented by Martin ThebesJonn Herschend5 min., video, 2014, USA“A text based powerpoint presentation that becomes a cathartic dance party” - Jonn HerschendF for FibonacciBeatrice Gibson16 min, video, 2014, UK“F for Fibonacci develops a particular episode from American author William Gaddis’ epic modernist novel JR, in which a televised music lesson is scrambled with a maths class on derivatives inside the mind of its child protagonist. Musings on aleatory music become muddled with virtual stock pickings and a theory of ‘market noise’. Unfolding through the modular machine aesthetics of the video game Minecraft, text book geometries, graphic scores, images from physics experiments, and cartoon dreams, blend with images from wall street: stock market crashes, trading pits, algorithms and transparent glass.” - Beatrice GibsonNon-Stop Beautiful LadiesAlee Peoples9 min., 16mm, 2015, USA“Non-Stop Beautiful Ladies is a Los Angeles street film starring empty signs, radio from passing cars and human sign spinners, some with a pulse and some without.” - Alee PeoplesI'm in Pittsburgh and it's RainingJesse McLean14 min, video, 2015, USA“An experimental portrait of a lighting stand-in and body double for a famous Hollywood actress, and a glimpse at the behind-the-scenes of cinema production Music by The Velvet Underground.”Hacked CircuitDeborah Stratman15 min., video, 2014, USA“A single-shot, choreographed portrait of the Foley* process, revealing multiple layers of fabrication and imposition. The circular camera path moves inside and back out of a Foley stage in Burbank, California. While portraying sound artists at work, typically invisible support mechanisms of filmmaking are exposed, as are, by extension and quotation, governmental violations of individual privacy. The scene being foleyed is the final sequence from The Conversation, where Gene Hackman’s character Harry Caul tears apart his room searching for a ‘bug’ that he suspects has been covertly planted. The look of Caul’s apartment as he tears it apart mirrors the visual chaos of the Foley stage. This mirroring is also evident in the dual portraits of sonic espionage expert Caul and Foley artist Gregg Barbanell, for whom professionalism is marked by an invisibility of craft. And in the doubling produced by Hackman’s second appearance as a surveillance hack, twenty-four years later in Enemy of the State. These filmic quotations ground Hacked Circuit, evoking paranoia, and a sense of conviction alongside a lack of certainty about what is visible. The complication of the seen, the known, the heard and the undetectable provides thematic parallels between the stagecraft of Foley and a pervasive climate of government surveillance.” - Deborah Stratman
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Start:
2015-05-14T19:00:00-05:00
End:
2015-05-14T20:30:00-05:00
Category
Film
Tickets
General Admission
9.75
USD
115