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  • “The Light in the Background is the Sun”

    Ocean of Oceans, 2008-11mins 20sec- A figure is burdened by cumbersome limbs as she churns in ocean waves, then moves toward a horizon. Her doppelganger uses the long arms as an asset, sailing through sea and space with ease. Sound design by Lily Wolfe of Parker and Lily and The Low Lows.

    Arms, 2007- 1 min. 15 sec- Arms, unicycles, cookware, and electronic toys gently collide.

    And This, Of Course, Is the Earth Down Here, 2008- 5min 30sec.- A journey in a canoe bookended by the mechanics of an eclipse and long-armed-spoon-headed boaters beamed onto the surface from the sky.

    37 Red Hats, 2008- 8mins 5sec– A 2008 visit to Beijing in which the artist located and tracked down every Pizza Hut location within the city limits

    The Hat (Sweetheart), 2007- 4 min. 30 sec- A story of love and control between a woman, a ventriloquist dummy, and a trick hat.

    Crossing, 2007- 5min.30sec.-A dual channel video about dangerous waters and a pilgrimage with voice over text from the artist’s
    Great(x10)-Grandmother’s Salem witch trial.

    They Are Coming, 2008-1 min.30 sec.- A bed bug moves frantically. He anticipates unwanted guests.

    Yonghy Bonghy Bo, 2005- 2min. 30sec.- A super 8 film about unrequited love between bumpy-headed Yonghy and Zelda, a married dummy.

    Pioneer, 2008- 2mins- A series of short video animations of The Pioneer moving through the American West of today and the open desert of days gone by asking “Where’s my horse/house?”

    Raree Show, 2009-15 min. 30 sec.- A Video Mutoscope performed visual narrative about how the Pioneer came to lose her horse and her house. Sound with Joe Houpert and Jean Chrastina

  • The Free Form Film Series

    OPENING FILM:  The Habit of Innovation by Brian Dewan (CATSKILL NY)
    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96382116

    “PRE-OPENING” FILM: Joy Of Painting by Peter Nowogrodzki
    MAIN PROGRAM curated by the Lost Media Archive, a repository for cultural detritus

    CLOSING ACT: live music by two-man noise ensemble FAGBASH

  • Ponytail

    This feature-length animation video follows several inflicted characters and recounts the ways in which they find resolve. A series of entropic scenarios held together by an attraction to failure and its spectacle describe the characters’ malfunction – their inability to fulfill personal desire. Compelled by the consequences and rewards of their attempts they question their own trajectory. Using elements of melodrama, performative monologue and traditional narrative structure Ponytail presents a unique society of characters that destroy the distinction between memory and invention.Dir: Barry Doupé, 92 min

    Barry Doupe (b. Victoria, BC) is a filmmaker living in Vancouver.  He holds a Bachelor of Media Arts Degree from Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design.  He is the recipient of a 2004 and 2005 Media Arts Canada Council Production Grant for emerging artists. He is also a member of The Lions collaborative drawing group (www.lionspile.ca).

    His films have been screened throughout Canada and Internationally, including the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives, Lyon Contemporary Art Museum, Pleasure Dome and the Tate Modern.