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Wednesday, Sep 7, 2016
7 PM (83 mins)
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Hollywood, Video Games, and the Avant-Garde
Often avant-garde filmmaking is seen as opposing mainstream cinema, but in tonight’s selection artists engage with Hollywood films from Sunset Blvd. to The Entity. Film images are multiplied, slowed down, splintered, and otherwise manipulated by filmmakers Gregg Biermann, Peter Tscherkassky, Matthias Müller, Jerry Tartaglia, Rebecca Baron, and Douglas Goodwin, bringing forward latent content, analyzing sexual politics, foregrounding materiality, or scrutinizing cinematic language. Likewise, Phil Solomon and Peggy Ahwesh rework footage culled from playing the apocalyptic video games Tomb Raider and Grand Theft Auto to create powerful reflections on identity and mortality.
Films in this Screening
Out There in the Dark
Gregg Biermann, United States, 2016
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- B&W
- Digital
- 4 mins
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- Gregg Biermann
She Puppet
Peggy Ahwesh, United States, 2001
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- Color
- Digital
- 15 mins
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- Video Data Bank
Passage a l'acte
Martin Arnold, Austria, 1993
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- B&W
- 16mm
- 12 mins
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- Canyon Cinema
Home Stories
Matthias Müller, Germany, 1991
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- Color
- 16mm
- 6 mins
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- Canyon Cinema
Remembrance
Jerry Tartaglia, United States, 1990
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- B&W
- Digital
- 5 mins
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- The Film-Makers’ Cooperative
Last Days in a Lonely Place
Phil Solomon, United States, 2007
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- B&W
- Digital
- 22 mins
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- Phil Solomon
Lossless #5
Rebecca Baron, Douglas Goodwin, United States, 2009
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- B&W
- Digital
- 3 mins
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- Video Data Bank
Iterations
Gregg Biermann, United States, 2015
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- Color
- Digital
- 5 mins
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- Gregg Biermann
Outer Space
Peter Tscherkassky, Austria, 1999
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- B&W
- 10 mins
- Canyon Cinema