Filmmakers Attending!
Traveling the across globe and into the mystery of interior spaces, this program presents works of document, elegy, transformation, abstraction, and memory by some of today's most exciting experimental film and video artists.
Fundir: Fundir follows the processing and importation of Boston’s road salt from one of its main sources in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile.
Director(s): Allison Cekala | Runtime: 22 min | Country: USA, Chile | 2016 | no dialogue
Wherever You Go, There We Are: In this experimental travelogue, efforts to sound human and look natural instead become artificial.
Director(s): Jesse Mclean | Runtime: 12 min | Country: USA | 2017 | English
Framelines: An abstract film made by laser etching patterns on 35mm film. The soundtrack filters and layers the noise made by the laser etched optical track.
Director(s): Sabine Gruffat | Runtime: 10 min | Country: USA | 2017 | no dialogue
CPS Closing & Delays: The Chicago Board of Education made history in 2013 with the closure of 50 schools, the largest public school closing to date in the United States.
Director(s): Kristin Reeves | Runtime: 7 min | Country: USA | 2017 | English
House: A meditation on emigration and immigration, house and home.
Director(s): Kyja Kristjansson-Nelson | Runtime: 2 min | Country: USA | 2017 | no dialogue
Exile Exotic: Steeped in elliptical history, Exile Exotic is set at a hotel that is a replica of the Kremlin. This film is a pilgrimage. This film comes in waves.
Director(s): Sasha Litvintseva | Runtime: 14 min | Country: UK | 2015 | English, Russian
Wedding Song: Film for Janel Leppin's "Wedding Song." Written after an elbow injury when she could not play the cello. Film hand processed without chemicals.
Director(s): Monica Saviron | Runtime: 2 min | Country: USA | 2016 | English
Arresting Animation: A movie using footage taken from American animated cartoons released between 1920 and 1961.
Director(s): Hannah Frank | Runtime: 3 min | Country: USA | 2017 | no dialogue
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS: On a high-land Tibetan pasture, a screening event unfolds quietly. Monks, herdsmen and their families gather by the screen to observe life captured through their own lenses.
Director(s): Yi Cui | Runtime: 14 min | Country: China | 2017 | no dialogue