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SHADOWBOX STUDIO (900 E Club Blvd, Unit 2200-D, Ample Storage)

MARCH 11th

12pm (Feature Narrative): Las Decisiones Formales

2pm (Feature Documentary): Forty Days of Pines

4pm (Feature): The fortune you seek is another cookie

6pm (Shorts): DARK LOGIC

8pm (Shorts): TALAMH

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SHORT PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS BELOW

PROGRAM 1: DARK LOGIC

“Dark Logic” by Margaret Rorison (4:36, 2016, USA)

An ode to the restricted space and surveillance in the skies. Sound derived from a live performance by Mario de Vega. Supported by The Echo Park Film Center Summer Artist in Residence Program. Filmed in Los Angeles, California and The Noah Purifoy Outdoor Museum in Joshua Tree.

“Clandestine” by Atoosa Pour Hosseini (15:00, 2015, Ireland/Iran)

Clandestine layers both space and time, superimposing imagery and creating entrancing patterns of repetition and startling interruption. Voyaging from one land to another, from found footage to mysteriously evocative scenes shot by the artist to the pure abstraction of hand-scratched film, it traces a haunting inner logic of memory and discovery.

“copy complete” by Maria Auerbach (8:23, 2015, Germany)

“copy complete” undertakes a journey to the origin of the digital era. In which the computer was observed to be a opportunity or threat, as well as a resource of the good or an instrument of the evil however it may be a gate to a worldwide communication and an instrument for totalitarian supervision. The computer within films serves as a reflection of the society and broaches the issue of the different aspects of human sensitivity opposite to new technologies.

“Orange Band” by Sarah Bliss (4:53, 2016, USA)

A portrait of place constructed thru’ a poetry of flicker and interference that volleys back and forth inside and outside the camera.  Film phrases built thru precise frame-by-frame editing are joined with lyrical passages and abrupt, dysnchronous jolts to create a rhythmic experiential “thought-image” mind-and-soundscape.

“Yapi” by Aaron Khandros (9:00, 2015, France)

Greece is covered in concrete tumors — yapi, half-finished buildings left in permanent limbo, skeletal structures like temples to some obscure future gods. People don’t explicitly speak of them or really even seem to see them. They’ve just grown from the landscape, a symptom of European change.

Emerging from their obscurity, the yapia grow to take on a life of their own. The future of their meaning, and their moment, are up for grabs.

“Underbelly Up” by Joshua Yates (4:30, USA)

A reflexive audio-visual threnody inspired by the individual and collective trauma stemming from last year’s devastating flood in South Carolina.

“Events in a Cloud Chamber” by Vinayak Nagesh (22:00, 2016, India)

In 1969, Akbar Padamsee, one of the pioneers of Modern Indian painting, made a visionary 16mm film called Events In A Cloud Chamber. This was one of the only Indian experimental films ever made. The print is now lost and no copies exist. Over 40 years later, filmmaker Ashim Ahluwalia worked with Padamsee, now 89 years old, to remake the film.

TOTAL RUNTIME: 68min

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Program 2: TALAMH

“talamh” by Josh Weissbach (6:50, 2016, USA/Ireland)

As the ancient is replaced by the old, the landscape of the classics gives way to a rock in the middle of the ocean.

“Moments from the Fall” by Christina Hunt (5:34, 2013, USA)

The fall into a deep internal processing of one’s past becomes a repetitive act on the verge of over analysis, revealing and breaking down layers. Submerged in the gravity of life changes one is pushed to step forward to a free fall.  Yielding control, sharing visions of a present experience, the journey becomes an aesthetic release from formality, a lightness of being.

“Figuring” by Kimberly Forero-Arnias & Billy Palumbo (10:52, 2016, USA)

Collaborative performances, for and with the camera, explore the forms and figures of interaction between two people.

“A subsequent fulfillment of a pre-historic wish” by Johannes
Gierlinger (9:23, 2015, Austria)

The film revolves around Ana Mendieta, deals with the question of identity, spirtuality, fleeing and belonging and relates to current political situations. A connected track, a time loop, between the death of an artist and the question of death and losing within the historical and present politics. A film in search for the traces of a baffling death.

“There are no Whales in France” by Eva van Tongeren (19:21, 2015, Belgium)

THERE ARE NO WHALES IN FRANCE is a filmic essay, set in a sleeping vacation village in the North of France. The filmmaker takes you with her on a personal search for peace and quietness; a certain grasp on the world. Her search for serenity witnesses her confusion. During the visual walks we hear a correspondence between the filmmaker and an actress. They muse about hope, getting grip, changes and borders.

TOTAL RUNTIME: 52min

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