Projections Program 10

Blue Loop, July
Mike Gibisser, USA, 2014, 16mm, 5m
“Chicago’s summertime blazes, unanchored. Skywriting out of time.” —Mike Gibisser

The Hummingbird Wars
Janie Geiser, USA, 2014, digital projection, 10m
“A theatrical fiction, collapsing time and place: turn-of-the-last-century performers apply stage makeup as if for war, to engage in battle for the soul of the world. The injuries are more emotional than physical, but cut deeply just the same. A visual/aural collage film, drawing on sources as seemingly disparate as Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, Japanese Gagaku music, makeup illustrations for 19th-century actors, the biography of a Shakespearean performer, blooming and decaying flowers, and a World War I First Aid Book, The Hummingbird Wars suggests theater in a time of war, which is the theater of any time.” —Janie Geiser

Razzle Dazzle
Jodie Mack, USA, 2014, 16mm, 5m
“Tacky threads luminesce at a firefly’s pace, twinkling through remnants of chintzy opulence and gaudy glamour prestissimo brillante.” —Jodie Mack

Blanket Statement #2: It’s All or Nothing
Jodie Mack, USA, 2013, 16mm, 4m
“A quilted call and response. A battle of extreme extremes.” —Jodie Mack

Light Year
Paul Clipson, USA, 2013, 16mm, 10m
“A commission for the San Francisco Exploratorium, this film-collage studies the water systems and architecture of the San Francisco waterfront, in abstract and lyrical contexts. The musical score by Tashi Wada is performed by cellists Charles Curtis and Judith Hamann.” —Paul Clipson

Sound of a Million Insects, Light of a Thousand Stars
Tomonari Nishikawa, Japan, 2014, digital projection, 2m
“I buried a 100-foot 35mm color negative film under fallen leaves alongside a country road, which was about 25 km away from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, for about six hours, from the sunset of June 24, 2014, to the sunrise of the following day. The night was beautiful with a starry sky, and numerous summer insects were singing loudly. The area was once an evacuation zone, but now people live there after the removal of the contaminated soil. This film was exposed to the possible residue of the radioactive materials.” —Tomonari Nishikawa

Ginza Strip
Richard Tuohy, Australia/Japan, 2014, 16mm, 9m
“The Ginza of fable and memory. This is the first film I have finished using the “chromaflex” technique that we developed. This is a very much hands on color-developing procedure that allows selected areas of the film to be color positive, color negative, or black and white.” —Richard Tuohy

Friday Mosque
Azadeh Navai, USA, 2013, 16mm, 8m
“Friday Mosque is a silent meditation on the Islamic prayer ritual through water, light, motion, and repetition. As if Azan, the Arabic calling, is visually summoning faithful souls to the everyday practice. Water is the core. The film was shot on BW 7363 film and fully hand processed.” —Azadeh Navai

2012
Takashi Makino, Japan, 2012, HDCAM, 30m
“Everything I saw during 2012. This work will show you the dynamic moment of changing from film image to digital image.” —Takashi Makino