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Saturday, October 14, 3:30 pm
Featuring the finest narrative, abstract and experimental animation, this program valorizes the beautiful and strange works that are made by independent animators presenting personal visions and expressions. (Total running time: 70 min.)
I Turn My Face to the Forest Floor
Set to the lush music of Gravenhurst, this stunning, mostly black-and-white short focuses on London’s community of filmmakers. (Thomas Hicks, England, 5 min.)
200_Nanowebbers
If you’re wondering what one nanowebber is, never mind the 200, know that it’s unlikely that you’ll find out here. But, you’ll probably google it later. (semiconductor, England, 3 min.)
Bloomy Girls
Masakatsu made Res magazine’s list of Ten Creators to Watch in 2006 with digital-painterly videos like this one. (Takagi Masakatsu, Japan, 5 min.)
McLaren’s Negatives
This animated documentary, about the elder statesman of Canadian animation, Norman McLaren, is remarkably illustrated in McLaren’s trademark style. Pictured above. (Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre, Canada, 10 min.)
Tread Softly
Lee’s graceful and surreal musing might be the perfect visualization of the delicate, beautiful poem by W. B. Yeats. (Heebok Lee, USA, 2 min.)
Devil’s Canyon
“Montgomery was drinking famously again . . . Frederick was eating a lot of dirt and lying about it.” Hard men and mechanical horses battle the elemental peril of Devil’s Canyon. (Kelly Sears, USA, 6 min.)
All the Time in the World
San Franciscans should relate to this one. When is the earthquake going to hit? It’s only a matter of time. (semiconductor, England, 5 min)
Toner
Masakatsu’s painterly technique runs through the copying machine. With music by Cornelius. (Takagi Masakatsu, Japan, 2 min)
Zero Degree
A soldier relearns self-surveillance as a camera turns round upon itself. (Omid Khoshnazar, Iran, 8 min)
Pia Flies
A third turn by Masakatsu reveals an entirely different style, approaching the body as landscape. (Takagi Masakatsu, Japan, 5 min)
Dark Mirror
Mexican visual artist Carlos Amorales’s work is the point of departure for Pahl’s quiet and foreboding short. (André Pahl, Mexico, 6 min)
Nocturne
A harrowing drive is punctuated by the activity of the animals of night. (Guillaume Delaunay, France, 5 min)
Rabbit
When schoolchildren hack a golden idol out of the stomach of a rabbit, unexpected avarice and animal desire take over. (Run Wrake, England, 9 min)
—Sean Uyehara |
