Remembrance

These contemplative films on a variety of themes all evoke a sense of nostalgia or mourning. Images shot on rural and city walks, then buried in a front yard, create Guiding Fictions (Mark Street, 2002, 5 mins, Color, 35mm); an unreturned hotel key triggers the imagining of haunting presences (Mizuko (Water Child), Abraham Ravett, 2002, 8 mins, Color, Video); an ordinary street intersects with history in Calcutta Intersection (Alfred Guzzetti, 2003, 10 mins, Color, Video), and an inner journey is set against the backdrop of a visit to maximum security prisons in Trauma Victim (Robert Todd, 2002, 9 mins, 16mm). Diane Bonder's Closer to Heaven (2003, 15 mins, B&W, 16mm) and Casey Koehler's bautismo (2001, 5.5 mins, 16mm) both explore grief and loss, while in Phil Solomon's masterful Psalm 111: Night of the Meek (2002, 23 mins, B&W, 16mm), mesmerizing, degraded images evoke the horror of the period leading up to the Holocaust.

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