Experimental Shorts: Next to of course America

  • Beneath a Glass Floor Lobby
  • Distant Shores
  • I'll Remember You as You Were, Not as What You'll Become
  • Machine_Space
  • News from the Sun
  • One Document for Hope
  • Speculations

Showings

The Main 5 Thu, Apr 27, 2017 9:30 PM
Ticket Prices
General Public:$13.00
Members:$11.00
Student:$8.00
Youth (25 & Under/Box Office Only):$8.00
Film Info
Guest Attending:Yes
Festival Programs:Experimental Shorts: Next to of course America
Short Films
Frame Forward: Cinema Expanded
Runtime:86 min
Cast/Crew
Director:Various

Description

Filmmakers Attending

Beneath a Glass Floor Lobby: "Beneath a Glass Floor Lobby" is a short essay film shot on Super 8 about recent archaeological discoveries dated back to 600 AD in the rapidly growing coastal city of Miami, Florida.
Director(s): Lisa Danker | Runtime: 5 min | Country: USA | 2016 | English


One Document for Hope: The sterile and procedural narrative of the Baltimore City Police Scanner recorded on Monday April 27 against precious moments of gathering, celebration and protest in Baltimore from April 28 – May 3, 2015.
Director(s): Margaret Rorison | Runtime: 7 min | Country: USA | 2015 | English


Speculations: This catalogue of brief encounters traces impersonal affects imprinted on the citizens by a city’s architecture.
Director(s): Ben Balcom | Runtime: 17 min | Country: USA | 2016 | English


News from The Sun: An apocalyptic narrative unfolds through the words of The Sun, a British tabloid created by media mogul Rupert Murdoch.
Director(s): The Smyth Brothers | Runtime: 3 min | Country: USA | 2016 | English


Distant Shores: An afternoon tour boat in Chicago is haunted by the specter of the European refugee crises as a disembodied narrator recounts a dangerous voyage.
Director(s): Christopher Harris | Runtime: 3 min | Country: USA | 2016 | English, Arabic


I’ll Remember You as You Were, Not as What You’ll Become: An elegy to Diane Burns on the shapes of mortality, and being, and the forms the transcendent spirit takes while descending upon landscapes of life and death.
Director(s): Sky Hopinka | Runtime: 13 min | Country: USA | 2016 | English


Machine_Space: An essay film analysing the space of the city as a place of circulation - its spatial negotiation, its encoding by racial privilege, and who controls it.
Director(s): Stephen Connolly | Runtime: 38 min | Country: USA, UK | 2016 | English

Included Shorts

Beneath a Glass Floor Lobby (5min) More
One Document for Hope (7min) More
Speculations (17min) More
News from the Sun (3min) More
Distant Shores (3min) More
I'll Remember You as You Were, Not as What You'll Become (13min) More
Machine_Space (38min) More