Saturday at the Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, 5pm

Snap Shot
Kim Keilhofner
4.5 min  |  2008  |  Video  |  Montreal, Canada

A fictional story is combined with my personal archive of photos.  Together the story and images walk the line between fiction and autobiography, hero and villain, and humor and melancholy.

The Story of Thomas Edison
Aaron Zeghers
4.5 min  |  2011  |  16mm on Video  |  Winnipeg, Canada

A film about the childhood heroes you so admired and now don’t speak to.  Optically printed onto 16mm, The Story of Thomas Edison is a mélange of recorded audio bites that form a libelous biography of the famous inventor.

Genesee
Chris Kennedy
3 min  |  2011  |  16mm, Silent  |  Toronto, Canada

Shot in the Genesee Valley of New York state last fall on regular 8mm to commemorate the last rolls of Kodachrome. The colours of the leaves and the film stock are augmented by orange colour filters, boosting the contrast and highlighting the rich saturated yellows, reds and orange of stock and season

Nowhere and Everywhere
Giorgi Mrevlishvili
6 min  |  2011  |  16mm on Video  |  Milwaukee, WI

A man tries to untie the rope tied to him.  Every time he unravels the rope a new one appears.  Finally he decides to follow it to find the end.  The rope leads to nowhere and everywhere.

Another Dress, Another Button
Lyn Elliot
2.5 min  |  2011  |  Video  |  Kansas City, MO

A stop-motion animation about the plight of the spare buttons: carefully saved, but never used.

I Colonize the Golden
Triangle (from behind glass)
Jason Halprin
13 min  |  2012  |  Super 8  |
Chicago, IL

Sometimes, being a tourist can mean keeping a place at arms length while attempting to extract its cultural resources for your own benefit. Mixing travel to exotic locales and mutual historical revisionism may result in an experience of detached exploration and crass economic exchange. Images and sounds recorded on a trip to Northern India’s “Golden Triangle” produce a document of separated cultural engagement.

I See A Light
Aaron Zeghers
1.5 min |  2011 | 16mm on video | Winnipeg, Canada

A brief glimpse into the final moments of a lifetime.

Walt Disney Spectrum
Disorder
LHO
3 min  |  Saturday, 3176 in the year of our discord  |  Video  |  Milwaukee, WI

2012 science video, abnormal psychology. Special deprogramming video, hatred of freedoms.

This Must be the Place
Luis Arnias
6 min |  2011 | 16mm | Roxbury, MA

“Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.”
-Henry David Thoureau

106 River Road
Josh Weissbach
6 min  |  2011  |  16mm  |  Milwaukee, WI

106 River Road connects the recorded document to the generated artifact, which move together upon a two-way timeline between the literal and the abstract.

Carbon
Craig Webster
9.5 min |  2012 | 16mm on Video | Iowa City, IA

The stain of iron in the clay does not remember the blood it had moved within.  The carbon that had driven living things, now in eroding stone runs black.

Cahiers 1-4
Kim Keilhofner
9.5 min  |  2012  |  Video  |  Montreal, Canada

Investigates the fabric of cinema history.

Annihilation
Catie Eller
6 min |  2011 | 16mm on Video |
San Francisco, CA

The destruction of the environment and the filmmaking process only occur with human intervention.

Connecting with Nature
Clint Enns
1.5 min  |  2011  |  Video  |
Toronto, Canada

An infomercial and an audio guide to spiritual enlightenment spawn an instructional video epitomizing New Age commodification.

Document
Bill Brown
2 min |  2012 | 16mm on Video  | Chapel Hill, NC

Redacted version of the C.I.A. Inspector General’s Special Review of Counterterrorism Detention and Interrogation Activities, September 2001-October 2003.  Laser printer transfer onto 16mm film.

How to Turn on your Computer
Emily Oscarson
6 min  |  2011  |  16mm on Video  |  Chicago, IL

Using the educational film as a model to teach technologically challenged users how to complete the more complex task of turning your computer on.

And Houses
Jake Barningham
2.5 min | 2011 | Video, Silent  | Chicago, IL

Nervous and trembling reconfigurations of a shared moment between houses, trees, clouds, telephone wires and sunshine.

Color Copy
Jake Barningham
2.5 min  | 2011 |  Video, Silent  |  Chicago, IL

A tree breathes candy colors, music ensues.

The Electric Embrace
Norbert Shieh
2 min | 16mm  | Los Angeles, CA

This silent hand-processed and optically printed film shifts like an electric current between positive and negative spaces to examine the electric pylons by the Los Angeles River.

House Fuck
Lyra Hill
6 min  |  2010  |  16mm  |
Chicago, IL

A lust letter to the textures of antiquity, the sensation of home, and the sounds of my radiator. House Fuck is about touching surfaces; an erotic encounter with personal space.

Flying Fish (Juror)
Tara Merenda Nelson
5 min | Super 8, Silent  |
Boston, MA

When the new is given birth, the light is brought to Earth.  The energy of the cosmos becomes visible through human life and deeds, and that energy impregnates all with its divine quality.  The creation which takes place in darkness and stillness will emerge and spread the divine, the light, sharing it once again with the mother who gave it birth.
- The Tarot, Princess of Disks

Saturday, May 5, at the Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, 8pm

You Are Now Running on
Reserve Battery Power
Jessie Stead
12 min  |  2011  |  Video  |
Brooklyn, NY

An unidentified non-tagonist hazily shares a waking dream with her power-deprived personal computer. A desktop noir co-starring users of the Chatroulette.com™ site in a random parade of webcam field recordings. This low battery neo-nocturne is a late-night spin-off of the Today! episodics.

Craig’s Cutting Room Floor
Linda Scobie
2 min  |  2011  |  16mm  |
San Francisco, CA

A fragmented journey through cinema’s history taken right off the cutting room floor.

Transitions
Robert Todd
6 min  |  2012  |  Video  |
Boston, MA

Part One of a series uncovering elements of the digital grammar found within Episodes 1-3.

EchoEcho
Sabine Gruffat
4 min  |  2011  |  Video  |
Chapel Hill, NC

An abstract computer animation structured by echoing forms and sounds.

The NeverEnd Story
Alex Moeller
5 min  |  2011  |  Video  |
Pottstown, PA

The first part of The NeverEnd Story triptych; ephemeral minds find love in the universe; let’s rot.

For, Like Ever
Christine Negus
6.5 min  |  2010  |  Video  |
London, Canada

This animation addresses death and the afterlife from three very distinct perspectives.

American Discotheque
Number One
Deron Williams
2 min  | 2011 |  Video  |
Carbondale, IL

A celebration (of sorts) as we all share a singular moment of visual and aural consumption. “Lovely is the feelin’ now. I won’t be complainin’. The Force is Love power.”

Dubus
Alexei Dmitriev
4 min  |  2005  |  Video  |
St. Petersburg, Russia

A slow dance of the classical cinema to the music of Zelany Rashoho.

Kid Beat-Box
Steve Wetzel
9 min  |  2011  |  Video  |
Milwaukee, WI

I don’t know Kid Beat Box, or I know him only as Kid, a person whose person I really like.  I met him through his cable access show, which basically consisted of a long shot of Kid’s face, tight, like he was about to burst out of the screen, red teeth, a few blackened; teased out afro; big stoned eyes — wild eyes. Kid Beat Box: Twenty-two Tapes, Edit Nine consists of thirty-five 10-second bits of video lifted from twenty-two standard digital video tapes.

Echoes of Information in an N-Dimensional Hilbert Space
David Witzling
3.5 min  |  2006  |  Video  | Milwaukee, WI

An abstract video with an experimental
musical composition.

While You Were Sleeping
Ted Kennedy
5 min  |  2012  |  Video  |
Brooklyn, NY

After a weekend of video recording, my cameras and the tapes of the efforts were stolen from my living room as I slept on the couch. I had made a low-res transfer from the tapes prior to the theft and those images have been edited to an audio recording of the police phone call reporting the theft.

Wingding’s Love Letter
Scott Fitzpatrick
2 min  |  2011  |  16mm on Video  |  Winnipeg, Canada

noun \ ‘win-,din\
1.    A lavish or lively party or celebration.
2.    A real or pretended fit or seizure; a rage.
An ode to a misunderstood font is rendered by laser printing directly onto 16mm leader.

Lazslo Lassu
Ben Popp
4 min  |  2011  |  16mm on Video  |  Portland, OR

A music film for the band A Hawk and A Hacksaw tells the story about a couple torn apart by the recesses of space.  Only the music they shared with one another can bring them back again.

Quartz
Sean Hanley
2.5 min  |  2011  |  16mm on Video  |  Brooklyn, NY

Light and Shadow give chase in this hand-processed film for the Brooklyn-based band, Crinkles.

Chromatic Cocktail
180 Proof
Kerry Laitala
9 min  |  2011  |  Video  |
San Francisco, CA

Put on your Chromadepth Glasses
Lovely Lenticular Ladies beckon to the audience shaking & winking their way into the consciousness of the viewer.

Friday, May 4, at the UWM Union Theatre, 7pm

When Walt Whitman Was A Little Girl
Jim Haverkamp
11.5 min | 2012 | Video | Durham, NC

Starting out as an ordinary nine-year old girl, young Walt Whitman is soon catapulted into the world with all her senses ablaze. Combining drama, dance, puppetry, and oddball humor, the film is a sometimes funny, sometimes sad rumination on growing up as a ‘sensitive kid.’

Crusts
Alexander Stewart
12 min | 2011 | 16mm on Video | Chicago, IL

A minimalist psychedelic film that combines searing drone noise with footage of
mysterious architectural and natural artifacts. A stroboscopic odyssey. A geologic horror film.

Panic Room
IP Yuk-yiu
6 min | 2011 | Video | Hong Kong, China

Shot over a three month period and documenting a small Tokyo apartment before and after the East Japan earthquake and the ensuing nuclear outbreak in 2011.

Hull
Tara Merenda Nelson
8 min | 2011 | 16mm | Boston, MA

A journey between layers of corporal consciousness, Hull explores the physical memory of trauma, and the psychological repercussions of a surgical disaster.

The Search for Norumbega
Georg Koszulinski
22min | 2012 | 16mm | Iowa City, IA

On the earliest European maps of North America, the unexplored region of present-day Maine was often labeled “Norumbega.” The fabled land was said to be hidden within this vast wilderness, and numerous cartographies placed Norumbega along Maine’s Penobscot River. But did Norumbega ever actually exist, or was it simply a European projection onto an unknown North American landscape—the desire to imagine a space divorced from the problems of European history?

349 (for Sol LeWitt)
Chris Kennedy
1 min | 2011 | Video, Silent | Toronto, Canada

“A digitally animated version of Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing #349, which was commissioned by Toronto’s Mercer Union gallery in 1981. Recreating LeWitt’s geometric vocabulary and primary colour palette, 349 careens through emblazoned emblems, lifted from walls and transported into dialogue with LeWitt’s exploration of spatial systems and human emotion.” -Andréa Picard, Toronto International FF

Point de Gaze
Jodie Mack
5 min | 2012 | 16mm, Silent | Lebanon, NH

Named after a type of Belgian lace, this spectral study investigates intricate illusion and optical arrest.

The Voice of God
Bernard Lutzeler
9.5 min | 2011 | 35mm, Sound | Berlin, Germany

If God would come down to earth and try to earn a living in Bombay, most probably he would very soon become successful as a voice over artiste, lending his voice to thousands of Hindi movies and even more documentaries and public service films in India. A melo-dramatic docu-drama with voice-over in stop-motion and long-time exposure.

Plain Face
Tess Martin
10.5 min | 2012 | Video | Seattle, WA

In a fantastical land, a stranger arrives and is the subject of prejudice, violence and love. We follow her journey through memory as she decides whether to give up her heart.

Neil Gravander Presents: Arch Hall Jr.’s “Vickie”
Neil Gravander
7 min | 2012 | Video | Milwaukee, WI

A re-representation of a scene from Arch Hall Jr.’s second film Eegah (1962). A portion of his song is played, rapidly alternating between moving forwards and backwards using the Video-Springer ( a video instrument Neil created, where VHS tape is played by hand-spinning the tape reels). Though much of the song’s innocence is skewed due to the abnormal movements of the scene, this rendition of “Vickie” retains the sense of love-and-loss of the original.

Saturday at the Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, 5pm

Details to fill in soon, but for now– The program!

It’s the lineup:

Friday, May 4, at the UWM Union Theatre, 7pm

When Walt Whitman Was A Little Girl, Jim Haverkamp
Crusts, Alexander Stewart
Panic Room, IP Yuk-yiu
Hull, Tara Merenda Nelson  (Juror)
I Can’t Wait to Meet you There, Michael A. Morris
349 (for Sol LeWitt), Chris Kennedy
Point de Gaze, Jodie Mack
The Voice of God, BernardLutzeler
Plain Face Tess Martin
Neil Gravander Presents: Arch Hall Jr.’s “Vickie”, Neil Gravander

Saturday at the Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, 5pm

Snap Shot, Kim Kielhofner
The Story of Thomas Edison, Aaron Zeghers
Genesee, Chris Kennedy
Nowhere and Everywhere, Giorgi Mrevlishvili
Another Dress, Another Button, Lyn Elliot
I Colonize the Golden Triangle (From Behind Glass) Jason Halprin
I See a Light, Aaron Zeghers
Walt Disney Spectrum Disorder, LHO
This Must Be the Place, Luis Arnias
106 River Road, Josh Weissbach
Carbon, Craig Webster
Cahiers 1-4, Kim Kielhofner
Annihilation, Catie Eller
Connecting With Nature, Clint Enns  
Document, Bill Brown
How to Turn on your Computer, Emily Oscarson
And Houses, Jake Barningham
Color Copy, Jake Barningham
House Fuck, Lyra Hill
Flying Fish, Tara Merenda Nelson  (Juror)

Saturday, May 5, at the Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, 8pm

You Are Now Running on Reserve Battery Power,  Jessie Stead
Craig’s Cutting Room Floor, Linda Scobie
Transitions, Robert Todd
EchoEcho, Sabine Gruffait
The NeverEnd Story, Alex Moeller
For, Like Ever Christine Negus
American Discotheque Number One, Deron Williams
Dubus, Alexei Dmitriev
Kid Beat-box, Steve Wetzel  (Juror)
Echoes of Information in an N-Dimensional Hilbert Space, David Witzling
While You Were Sleeping, Ted Kennedy
Snow, Tara Merenda Nelson  (Juror)
Wingding’s Love Letter, Scott Fitzpatrick
Lazslo Lassu, Ben Popp
Quartz, Sean Hanley
Chromatic Cocktail 180 Proof, Kerry Laitala in dazzling Chromadepth!

Sunday, May 6, at the Peck School of the Arts Kenilworth Studios, 3pm

Front Street Yard, David Ellsworth
Men’s Hockey, Steve Wetzel (Juror)
Victoria, Olivia Ciummo
Across and Down, Lori Felker

Sunday, May 6, at the Peck School of the Arts Kenilworth Studios, 6pm

The Mennonite Federation, Robert Todd w/ Lori Felker and Craig Webster
Saskatchewan, Richard Wiebe
Etienne Hand, Richard Touhy
The Search for Norumbega, Georg Koszulinski
Ghost of Yesterday, Tony Gault
Primitive, Ben Balcom
Once It Started It Could Not End Otherwise, Kelly Sears
Bodily Heavens II, Stephanie Wuertz
Leafless, Naz Dincel
Family Room (2011) Sunday, Super 8 on 4 projectors, Tara Merenda Nelson  (Juror)