Schedule:

1 Pm - Program 5 – I’m Not Your Monster

Movies about the movies inside the movies. The roles we play, the scenes we steal. Stand-ins, stars, and stunt doubles. Opposition politicians disguised as commercial photographers, aviators cast as ventriloquist dummies, and cherry pie playing itself.

Cherry Pie
Ella Berke, 2024
RT: 01:08 minutes
A 16mm non-narrative film. A stomach and a slice of cherry pie.

The FLOWER CULT of Amelia Earhart
Rebecca Barten, 2024
RT: 05:45 minutes

A synaptic celluloid requiem, propelling the High Priestess Aviator Earhart through far-sighted passages of flora, fauna, air, fire and water.

I’m Not Your Monster
Karen Yasinsky, 2024
RT: 04:33 minutes

I’m Not Your Monster is a hand-drawn animation composed of fragments rotoscoped from various films. It began with replacing Frankenstein’s monster with a person I know. The idea of fear creating violence inspired the project, coupled with ideas about the self, its construct and its relation to the body.

Ode to R.G. Springsteen
John Winn, 2024
RT: 14:19 minutes

Ode to R.G Springsteen is a collection of daily dedications to R.G. Springsteen, a minor artisan of the Hollywood b-western. Each segment was originally a kind of letter, a private correspondence, sent in fragments to friend and film critic Benjamin Crais over a few weeks—an ode to R.G. but also to B.C. (an ode to cinema, to everyday life, and to the cinephilic fantasy of their becoming indistinguishable).

Exo Gestus #2
Yvette Granata, 2024
RT: 04:30 minutes

Exo Gestus #2 is an experimental animation exploring the way that motion capture sensors incorrectly track my body. It is an amalgamation of the glitches that occur from tracking my movements while wearing a MOCAP suit that is too big for my body. The sound is a recording of my feet dragging across the floor.

Semi-precious
Kara Ditte Hansen, 2024
RT: 15:00 minutes

Semi-Precious is a portrait of the filmmaker’s mother, a retired holistic practitioner framed through her crystals, supplements, jewelry, healing instruments, and household adornments.

thread, chain, beads and tacks
Ela Kazdal, 2024
RT: 02:03 minutes

thread, chain, beads and tacks is an experimental film made on 16mm and 35mm film, alongside materials such as thread, chain, beads, tacks, hex nuts, bolts, steel eye pins, hooks, clasps, tracing paper, prints, IKEA paper measure, bobby pins, 35mm photographic film strip, 16mm film strips, nail polish, screenprint, mesh fabric and lace.

Passages II
Maya K Jeffereis, 2024
RT: 11:30 minutes

Passages II considers oceanic thinking as means to connect related histories of exploitation and resistance between islands in the Pacific and Caribbean. The video combines digital and archival footage, cyanotypes on 16mm, and excerpts of Japanese, Caribbean, and Pacific poetry and prose. The video is loosely inspired by my maternal great-grandparents’ history as Japanese immigrant laborers on Hawaiʻian sugar cane plantations in the early 20th century.

sunspots, burnt into my heart
craig scheihing, 2023
RT: 02:14 minutes

a play on the light, lost in the woods, longing.

The Big Day of Coloane
Keng U Lao, 2023
RT: 17:30 minutes

In a little-known city called Macau, an opening ceremony is set to take place to celebrate the establishment of the “Coloane Development and Construction Association.” All the big names in the area will be attending the ribbon-cutting ceremony.