When temporary solutions become the status quo, who gets left behind? A Stop Gap Measure follows disability activist Luke Anderson in his fight for accessibility to be a right, not a privilege.
Amid migration grief and integration challenges, Manuel, a former doctor turned community leader, guides immigrant men in a life-changing program, forging resilience, belonging and solidarity.
After undergoing the procedure, men reflect on ideas of masculinity that have shaped their perception of manhood and describe the clarity and freedom that comes with letting go of limiting beliefs.
Marta Raitses is one of the leading Russian playwrights: after 2 years of voluntary exile in totalitarian Russia, she returns to gather material for a new book. To tell her personal, tragic love story for the first time.
In 1938, the Russian literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin coined the term 'chronotope' to describe the role time and space plays in literature. In 1985, the American astronomer, Carl Sagan testified before congress on the threat of climate change to life on Earth and the need for the world's governments to work together to address the issue. What if Bakhtin's literary theory applied to scientific discourse, and the natural environment from 1985 into the future were the time and space of the story?
An ode to appropriation. Mickey Mouse long the center of the copyright debate of free expression vs property rights was finally made a free mouse on January 1st, 2024.
Initially created for a new alternative distribution network, Miss Video 4U, modeled after the 1990's Joanie4Jackie video chain letter, IMAGE BREAKER explores the history of the Big Miss Moviola/Joanie4Jackie series to take viewers further back to the mid 1970s when another, less well known, feminist video exchange took place, International VIDEOLETTERS. Then 27 feminist media groups participated in a two year bi-monthly video exchange. After giving a brief introduction through clips and art work, this less than ten minute video quickly explores 13 other 1970s feminist media that are MISSING / UNKNOWN / UNSHOWN. Spunky and quirky, the work could evolve into a Feminist/Gender and Cinema Studies teaching tool and put some of this germinal feminist work back on the cinema history map.
TEXtrucTURAS (Humanas) is an artistic_instrumental research work with Artificial Intelligence and is part of a research project, in Audiovisual Arts, that tries to transfer expressive and emotional concepts to the screen with moving images, so it deliberately lacks formal, narrative and structural aspects.
“The title itself contains a Buddhist-like koan. Fascinating how breaking ‘apart’ the word brings us into coherence as ‘a part’ of nature. A linguistic mystery visualized, eyes wide open. This must be the footage from the Amazon(?) you mentioned some months ago that you recalibrated to provide a POV experience of merging with the rowboat paddling through the jungle grasses, bringing us into kinship with the riverway. I loved seeing the wildlife cam footage of the bear and the mountain lion…your stewardship of the land merging with the travel footage. And the fire sequence resembled a flaming flower!” — KATHLEEN SWEENEY, Eco-Artivist
In the video, we see an African man breaking eggs with a knife, one after another, in a repetitive, obsessive, and monomaniacal act. He repeatedly says out loud, 'An egg, the white is gone but the yellow remains.' The video clearly shows the impossible reconciliation between the colonizer and the colonized. Inside an egg, the white and the yellow coexist harmoniously and naturally, even though they don't have the same texture, color, shape, or smell. But when there is a fracture, a break, or a rupture between them, each follows its own nature. The egg is a prison; it is the symbol of both creativity and fertility, hope and a promise of life, a new birth, and regeneration. With the broken egg, horror takes over. It's the paradox of the egg: on one side, there are broken shells, a shattered life, and on the other, the hope of a return to life and rebirth.
Island is the second iteration of an exploratory journey through an island off the coast of Boston MA previously inhabited by prisoners of war. It is a portrait of a place conceived through Super 8mm film and the impressions left on the filmmaker from a day's visit to this abandoned and fascinating site.
This project fits within my cameraless conceptual interests as a filmmaker. Specifically, this cinematographic proposal consists of projecting 35mm film on both sides and exploring the specificity of its transparency and the double soundtrack. As in my previous films, I am exploring different ways of creating new forms using the materiality of celluloid and its potential.
I am very thankful to the Intermedial Festival for introducing me to the work of Stan Ostoja-Kotkowski. Many of his statements about the arts, technology and life resonated very deeply with me. Now, after I have completed this piece, I feel that we are related. He could be my uncle in our family of artists who work across mediums in an interdisciplinary way. I feel both challenged and inspired by his work and wish he was still present. What stories he could tell! And what would he accomplish with the advances in technology that have been made in the last 30 years? Let us work to continue his legacy.
The little bird Hitch flies quietly in a backyard among chickens, roosters and chicks, who welcome him and offer him food. But at lunch time the best thing to do is to be aware of psychotic animals that are the real “colonels" in the area.
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