Monthly Archives: June 2007

THE GEOSOPHIST’S TEARS

By David Finkelstein | June 2007

The starkness of the desert, along with the eerily howling sound, gives a feeling of loneliness and freefloating anxiety to the video…

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THE GEOSOPHIST’S TEARS

This video is a sumptuous celebration of the (to the East Coast eye) astonishing landscape of the American West. The video opens with a shot of an antique...

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DISCONNECTED

Grace Carter is seen here as a generic teenage girl waiting by the phone for her boyfriend to call. The soundtrack is a looped, distorted pastiche of...

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VOX 13 (DVD)

"Vox 13," a recent DVD collection of film and video by Peter Rose exploring language and the body, is filled with wonders: visual beauty, provocative...

SOPRANOS MAKE A KILLING AT WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL

Don’t believe the blank screen! Tony Soprano and his cronies are coming to Woodstock, and they aren’t making any graveyard trips. The Woodstock Film...

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A SHIFT IN PERCEPTION

"A Shift in Perception" is an experimental documentary portrait of three older blind women in Australia, Leander, Edna, and Rhonda. The soundtrack...

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MUSE OF CINEMA AND TORCHLIGHT TANGO

"Muse of Cinema" is a 20 minute film which mixes footage from the "dawn of cinema" age and Magic Lantern images with splotches and swirls in primary...

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THE MAN WHO COULD NOT SEE FAR ENOUGH

In a brief prologue, we hear a narrative fable, a kind of mythical generative story for the film. The story concerns a man who is obsessed with seeing...

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LAY DOWN TRACKS

This experimental documentary interweaves the stories of six people whose lives keep them constantly on the road. Bill Crowley, a retired worker from the...

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ODYSSEUS IN ITHACA

This video is a portrait of an empty circular parking garage. The footage is shown from the point of view of the side of a car, winding it's way down six...

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NEBULOUS 1-3

"Nebulous" is a suite of 3 related abstract video shorts which provide variations on indistinct textures. "Nebulous 1" (5 minutes) presents an inner...

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