Five American nomads “hit the road” in this sprawling 16mm documentary feature. A beautiful and remarkable love letter to travel.
Dir: Danielle Lombardi and Brigid McCaffrey
Additional Films:
Fledgeling – Tony Gault, Elizabeth Henry (Denver, Co)
Faces on Mars – David Borengasser (San Francisco)
CLOSING PERFORMANCE: Live Performance by Add Oil
Date Palms is Oakland-based musical duo Marielle Jacobsons and Gregg Kowalsky. Sound artist artist violinist Marielle Jakobsons “creates a dim world where Eastern folk melodies meet damaged textures and desolate atmospheres.”-Aquarius “Layered in textures and sound, Jakobsons knows how to weave an immaculate sonic tapestry that is stunning and profound.”-Fina. Gregg Kowalsky’s compositions range from drone and noise pieces to meditative psychedelia, which are highly influenced by the thick, humid air of South Florida where Gregg lived for most of his life. He is interested in filling the spaces his music occupies through dense, live, multi-channel mixes.”- Kranky Kowalsky utilizes…an eclectic array of source material: tape cassettes, sine oscillators, contact mics, bells, bird callers and a computer.- Aquarius “Elm is the solo project of Jon Porras who is half of duo Barn Owl. Porras uses guitars, vocals, harmonium, harmonica, drum and flute combined with a huge amount of talent and imagination to create his own mysterious world. There’s a kind of underlying menace and bleakness but there’s light shining through with gorgeous tones that I find very uplifting.” – Norman Records
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SUN CIRCLE is the duo of Greg Davis and Zach Wallace. Psychoacoustic minimalism meets psychedelic maximalism. Ecstatic high volume drones, long form trance musics and peace noise. Bowed strings, voices, organs, percussion, home-made and world instruments. Greg Davis lives in Burlington, Vermont. He has played shows all over the world with many different people and has released solo and collaborative albums on many different labels, including Carpark Records and Kranky. Zach Wallace lives in Swan Valley, Montana. He performs solo, with Memorize the Sky and SUN CIRCLE and has played with people ranging from Tony Conrad to Anthony Braxton.”-On Land Festival
Paul Clipson is a San Francisco-based filmmaker who often collaborates with sound artists and musicians on live performances, films and installations. His work has screened this year at the Rotterdam Film Festival, the Cinémathèque Française and in the NYFF Views From The Avant Garde program.
Bryan Konefsky
Experiments in Cinema film festival (a Basement Films production – now in it’s 5th year) is designed to bring the international community of cinematic experimentalists to New Mexico and to expand our statewide conversation about movie making to include alternative cinematic histories. That is, As New Mexico imagines it’s future as a new media center, it is our civic responsibility as media makers, educators and movie fans to actively participate in, and help direct this sometimes anemic regional dialogue about all things cinematic. To this end it is the mission of Basement Films and Experiments in Cinema to nurture the next generation of movie makers and media theorists top become informed citizens of the world.
Basement Films travels to ATA to screen an international selection of un-dependent cinema from the first 4 years of Experiments in Cinema. This 75 minute program will feature contemporary experimental, underground and un-dependent films from Germany, Japan, Canada, Russia, Panama, China, South Korea, Spain, and, although no one is truly sure why, Texas!
PROGRAM
God Bless America by Tadasu Takamine, Japan, TRT 9 min, 2002
Gruppenbild Mit Fahne by Nik Kern, Germany, TRT 3 min, 2004
Establishing Shots by Chris McNamara, Canada, TRT 12 min, 2006
Aria by Brooke Alfaro, Panama, TRT 3.5 min, 2005
Graphit Auf Leinwand by Hanni Welter, Germany, TRT 10 min, 2007
Energie by Thorston Fleisch, Germany, TRT 6 min, 2007
Alone by Gerard Friexes Ribera, Spain, TRT 3 min, 2008
No Silvery Song by Karen Hipscher, New Mexico, TRT 3.5 min, 2007
Icon by Chi Jang Yin, China, TRT 4 min, 2006
Lets Get Married by Mary Magsamen and Stephen Hillerbrand, Texas, TRT 3.5 min, 2008
Dubus by Alexei Dmitiev, Russia, TRT 4 min, 2005
Latent Sorrow by Shon Kim, South Korea, TRT 3.5 min, 2006
Soft Version by Erik Moskowitz, New York, TRT 3.5 min, 2006
Tale of the Seas Dream by Ben Popp, New Mexico, TRT 5 min, 2007
Little Clips by Julie Perini, Portland, TRT 1 min, 2007