Pandora's Screens

These experimental films share a fascination with troubled images, letting loose on the screen disquieting and mysterious resonances, perturbing our relationship to the seen. Retrospectroscope (Kerry Laitala, 1997, 4 mins): An early technique for animating still images spins forms into life. Vervielfaltigung (James Otis, 1996, 4 mins): A computer script transforms male bodies into a musical mockery of body-typing systems. If you stand with your back to the slowing of the speed of light in water (Julie Murray, 1997, 18 mins): Innovative juxtapositions release unsuspected content. Sewn (Pablo de Ocampo, 1997, 4 mins): The veil between us and memory. Imprint (Louise Bourque, 1997, 14 mins): Loops of home-movie footage explore the idealized intimacy of home. Immer Zu (Janie Geiser, 1997, 9 mins): Cut-out figures evoke a woman's cryptic journey. The Five Bad Elements (Mark Lapore, 1997, 32 mins): A filmic Pandora's box full of "trouble."-Kathy Geritz, Irina Leimbacher

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