Emulsive Trepidation
October 27, 2002 - 7:PM
Max Kade Theatre - Colorado College
Colorado Springs, Colorado

PROGRAM:

1. Blue Burlesque, Pat Doyen, Super 8
Visually stunning, provocative and hyper strange film appropriates footage from a nudie film from the early years of cinema. The visual movement and odd audio combine to create a true film treat.

2. What The Ashes Wanted, Philip Hoffman, 16mm
What these ashes wanted places flesh on the poet Ann Carson's words "Death lines every moment of ordinary time." With this work Hoffman resides in an acutely intimate time, a daily practice of loss lived precariously between the terror of psychic disintegration and the provisional solace taken through public rituals of mourning. `What these ashes wanted' is not a story of surviving death, but rather, of living death through a heightening of the quotidian moments of every day experience.

3. Maria Movie, Jeanne Liotta, 16mm
Maria Movie is an overwrought melodrama in New York City among the grit and shards of cinemas past and present. Chemistry and horror, dirge and dream, with Catherine Deneuve as The Black Maria herself, leading the procession on the via negativa.

4. My Life as a Bee, Robert Schaller, 16mm
An imagining of a bee’s eye view of a spring day in Golden Gate Park. A primitive, home-made camera reveals a world of vibrant, frenetic color, racing between flowers and losing itself in the revelry of survival and sunshine.

5. 4 Seconds, Ben Kronberg, 16mm
Four seconds of film is looped, hand-processed and re-created using photograms.

6. Final: Toxic 6, Gerald Saul, 16mm
"Final" is a nihilistic glimpse of a future where our time has finally run out. Civilization is in ruins as storms explode over half demolished buildings. The clock accelerates in anticipation of our encroaching successor.

INTERMISSION

7. 18(+2) Blinks of an Eye, Anuradha Chandra, 16mm
A beautiful and trance like filmic portrayal of the horror and deconstructions of time and its discourse.

8. Wishes, Rachel Lordkenaga, 16mm
A hand-processed and optically printed film about wishing

9. Held Breath, Rachel Lordkenaga, 16mm
A dark film about survival and perseverance.

10. Film Therapy, Ben Kronberg, 16mm
Film was used as a therapeutic process that was made during a difficult time of his life.

11. Bautismo, Casey Koehler, 16mm
A young woman caught in a nightmare tries to flee from its vicious undertow. (Re-photographed appropriated footage,
hand-processed with photogramming)

12. Work produced during the TIE FILMMAKING CAMP:HAND-PROCESSING. October 24-27, 2002. Sponsored by and held at The Manitou Center for Photography.

13. Discussion: Alternative developing processes in experimental motion picture filmmaking, with filmmakers Robert Schaller, Scot Driesen, and Ben Kronberg.