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Stinger

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Brian Zahm

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A filmmaker documents his own subtropical parasitic disease…

Twenty years ago, I was in Ecuador documenting a U.S. scientific team’s fight against Chagas disease. One of the crew from the C.D.C. had a small camera with the ability to record microscopic image video. Fascinated with its capabilities, I borrowed it. While testing it in the jungle, I was stung by an unknown insect. I quickly developed an intense fever, oozing pustules, blurred vision, and nausea. I documented the first day’s symptoms, hoping things were temporary, but soon woke up in the ICU being prepped for abdominal surgery. The second day of my parasitic infection was documented with recordings from a microscope examining my blood and the camera probe used during surgery. The total extent of the footage was assembled in this experimental documentary.

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Interlude

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Ans Mertens

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How can we imagine the resonance of a life that soon becomes a shadow and resounds as a slight vibration in its environment? This was the central question that resonated with Maika Garnica and Ans Mertens during a residency in corona times at an elderly home in Antwerp. This audio-visual exchange searches for texture, while the sounds and shadows take us on a journey along with our intimate thoughts and remembrances.

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Imágenes decodificadas de representaciones neuronales de un sueño

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Carlos Hurtado Múnera

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The digital format breaks when trying to replicate neural activity. Rapid eye movements occur in one of the stages of sleep where the body is paralyzed while consciousness is obliged to exist between two dimensions, it is on this frontier that transient images appear leaving an immaterial trace.

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Capítulo Dois: Dominação,

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After the release of her first film Chapter One: The Arrival, Sara Carneiro presents Chapter Two: Dominance, a continuing reflection on the Portuguese’s colonial past.
This second film intends to expose the process of domination during the European expansion. By using visual compositions of symbolic elements, Sara alludes to key instruments used during the colonial suppression such as violence, religion, exploration of resources and territory occupation. Whiteness becomes a central matter and intertwines with issues of identity, where the artist uses her own image as a vehicle for questioning the status quo and systems of racial hierarchy.
Maintaining the experimental, abstract and sensory qualities characteristic of Sara’s artistic practice, Chapter Two: Dominance sets a dark and tense tone in order to create a space for criticism and recognition of structures and patterns built during the European colonial period and that continue to be perpetuated to this day.

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Frequencies of Deep Time

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Eric Souther

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Frequencies of Deep Time explores changes of geological time in Western New York, change that form strata in the rock formations of gorges like Watkins Glen State Park. I am interested in the stories the formations can tell of the co-evolution of life and minerals, of humans and non-humans, and their entanglement with one another and the land. I developed custom software that uses sound waves to augment three-dimensional forms animating the geological landscapes. Oscillations work as an audio-visual metaphor for change across deep time and provide a way to perform across an incomprehensible length of time.

This project is made possible, in part, with funds from the Media Arts Assistance Fund, a regrant partnership of NYSCA and Wave Farm, with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

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Chiaroscuro

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Asia Vo

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Chiaroscuro is an immersive sound and video installation that follows an anonymous glowing figure as they traverse an empty, black and unknown plane. They move through a series of events, from witnessing strange shadows dancing across the void, to an exchange of fruit with a mystical body of water. The character’s quest does not reach a point of fulfillment. Caught in an endless cycle, they find themselves with an empty bucket and nothing gained. Chiaroscuro investigates the relationship between the mind and the unknown.

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Anagram

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Nathaniel Draper

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In the depths of the image and imagination hide bodies suspended between perception and projection, a shadow-space for collective dreaming. Meticulously constructed on 16mm film and structured around Balinese dance and Gamelan ritual, Anagram pays homage to the work of pioneering dancer and filmmaker Maya Deren, who carried dance into the heart of cinema.

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INCIPIENCE

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Yaroslav Bulavin

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An art film about the creation of the world, earth and water, the origin of life. Filmed by one person without the involvement of a film crew, VFX or combined filming.

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Under the Midnight Sun

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Mélissa Faivre

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Under the Midnight Sun is a dance of light and shadows, textured grayscale expanding across the landscape of an apocalyptic city. The sun is moon and light. It unveils itself by means of visual pulsating dynamics, unstable frequencies and vibrating rhythms; until it disintegrates into particles and pixels, and vanishes into darkness. This visual-musical piece is dark, worrying and calls to sensorial explorations into deeper energies.