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short-film program
Program Running Time is 100 min
These recent experimental films and videos utilize a wide range of subjects and techniques, transforming everyday simplicity into sublime complexity and forcing the viewer to reevaluate his or her own assumptions and viewpoints. Familiar images ranging from natural landscapes to hotel rooms to television sitcoms to the geography of the human body provide the means for aesthetic contemplation, social and political analysis, and formal exploration. Curated by James Kreul, PhD graduate of the UW–Madison Department of Communication Arts. Viewer discretion advised.

Ichthyopolis Directed By: Andre Silva USA, 2008, 10 min A very fishy short film combining a wide range of live-action and animation techniques, set in a realm where high camp, the absurd, and the esoteric interact.

Dirty Pictures Directed By: John Smith United Kingdom, 2007, 14 min As part of his on-going project of recording hotel rooms around the world, Smith moves from one hotel in Bethlehem to another in East Jerusalem. He encounters a series of problems involving a ceiling, a video camera and the Israeli occupation of Palestine.

She Used to See Him Most Weekends Directed By: Penny Lane USA, 2007, 4 min Picture book simplicity conveys emotional complexity as a memories of childhood are scrambled by time and loss.

When Worlds Collude Directed By: Fred Worden USA, 2008, 13 min A montage of seemingly banal material tries to escape its representational duties, but can it escape the idiom of popular culture?

Light is Waiting Directed By: Michael Robinson USA, 2007, 11 min The girls think that carrying the living room television up to their room is a good idea, but once they drop it off of the stairs all bets are off. A very special episode of television’s “Full House” devours itself from the inside out, excavating a hypnotic nightmare of a culture lost at sea.

Speechless Directed By: Scott Stark (IMDB) USA, 2008, 13 min Following up on his interest in 3D photography (Angel Beach, WFF 02), Stark contrasts various surfaces and textures with clinical images of human vulvae taken from a Viewmaster reel that accompanied a medical textbook entitled The Clitoris.

Black and White Trypps Number Three Directed By: Ben Russell (IMDB) USA, 2007, 12 min A collective freak-out at a performance by noise band Lightning Bolt is transforms into a trance ritual of the highest spiritual order.

Horizontal Boundaries Directed By: Pat O'Neill (IMDB) USA, 2008, 23 min Legendary experimental filmmaker Pat O’Neill (whose feature The Decay of Fiction was featured at WFF 03) explores the formal properties of California geography and the compositional properties of the frameline.

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