Stream: Chapter 2 (helpless)
Stream: Chapter 2 (helpless)
August 1st (12-5) and 2nd (11-4) 2015
South Windham, VT
An exhibition happening next weekend! Survivalist Cinema will be returning, this year with a line-up of experimental shorts called Anthroposcenic.
More on the 2 Chairs website.
On the screening:
ANTHROPOSCENIC
A program of moving image work to be screened in the Survivalist Cinema, a solar-powered micro-cinema housed in a wilderness lean-to. These experimental shorts reimagine the ‘figure in the landscape’ trope, calling upon consumer objects with mystical properties, “machinema,” low-tech sci-fi performance, post-production, and decomposition to augment or devolve bodies and personhood in relationship to the landscape.
Peggy Ahwesh, She Puppet (2001, video, 15 min.)
In She Puppet Ahwesh edited hours of playing the game Tomb Raider to redirect the narrative of the character Lara Croft from a goal-oriented tour through obstacle-laden adventure-scapes to one more dark and speculative.
Torsten Zenas Burns and Darrin Martin, ARK3: THE WATERWAY SCENARIOS (2015, video, 13 min.)
This newly edited piece furthers Burns’ and Martin’s research into “diverse speculative fictions including re-imagined educational practices, crypto-utopian musicals, appropriated horror genres, paranormal phenomenon, re-animation choreographies, cos- play, and trans-human love stories.”
Shana Moulton, Whispering Pines 3 (2004, video, 7:33 min.)
Moulton’s pained alter ego Cynthia interacts with household objects that operate as channels to surreal experiences or transcendent New Age epiphanies.
Jennifer Reeves, Landfill 16 (2011, 16mm film transferred to video, 9 min.) Reeves temporarily buried outtakes from her 16mm double projection When It Was Blue to “let enzymes and fungi in the soil begin to decompose the image. [She] then hand- painted the film to give it new life.”
Brian Zegeer and Rachel Frank, Far Rockaway (2012, mixed-media animation, digital video, 4:53 min.)
This music video was filmed at Dead Horse Bay, a Far Rockaway landfill that has since erupted onto the beach surface. Made in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, the film imagines a vengeful nature at odds with human endeavors.
