Boston-area video maker Julie Mallozzi traveled to China to meet her mother’s relatives for the first time, and discovered that they havefaced persecution, imprisonment, and even death during theircountry’s convulsive political movements. Her video “Once Removed”weaves together dreams, archival footage, and scenes from herrelatives’ lives to meditate on the complications of remembering andforgetting the past.
A collection of innovative audio visual works, ranging from motion graphics, animation and film, to music video, alternative documentary, and generative video art, curated by systemsoular (new media collective)
FEATURING
‘crude’ | johnny deKam | NY, US
‘e.mp(ty)’ | tddy | Porto, PT
‘areocoagulum’ n ‘FINN the movie’ | GMUNK | NYC, US
‘passion prefix’ | torsten lauschmann, music by pro forma | Scotland
‘mountain whispers’ | stephen connolly | NJ, US
‘seashell’ | systemsoular, music by keith rondinelli | NYC, US
‘comin to get you’ | david k, music by tulip sweet and her trail of tears | Brooklyn, US
‘cereus giganteus’ n ‘life program’| naoism | Tucson, US
Guerrilla News Network | Stephen Marshall | US
“ammo for the info warrior”
-‘countdown’ narrated by ralph nader, music by adrock
-‘when the smoke clears’ with slam poet Talam Acey Presenting artists from all over the globe, DYAD, NAOISM, EKLEKTRO, PURE, and other special guests
A series of films that take a haunting and humorous look at altered environments. Using optical printing and innovative animation these filmmakers create surreal almost science fiction worlds of a future to come. Abigail Childs Dark, Dark is an amazing deconstruction of filmic narrative and creates an atmosphere of suspense that rests not on story but technique, as fragments of Hollywood films are eerily rotated and repositioned to create a sinister world of romance and danger. With haunting music by Ennio Morricone. Hatching Beauty by Amy Hicks alters time and motion this cleverly conceived film uses stop-motion, live action and found footage to tell the humorously unsettling story of a single mom as she considers selling her ovum for some extra cash.
Also including Pearce Williams Sharp Proofing which uses an unsettling blend of fiction and realism and takes viewers behind closed doors of a psychiatrists office. Our animated protagonist reveals her worst fears and phobias in this deadpan and succinctly written animated narrative.
For more info,
MadCat Film Festival
www.somaglow.com/madcat
415 436-9523