2008

Uncharted Histories: Pirates

2007

as storms take shape in the distance...

2006

Behind the Walls and Under the Stairs

when the wind shifted

traveling thru with eyes closed tight
(map #2 – january 03 thru january 06)


three hours, fifteen minutes before the hurricane struck

hysteria

2005

migration

the distance between here and there

nostalgia (april 2001 to present)

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the distance between here and there
7.5 mins, 16mm, handcrafted colour film, sound, april 2005

traveling through an invented landscape…the space between here and there.

An abstract film made by applying colour tape directly onto emulsion and exposing it to light. The film presents colour fields in motion, though for the most part the ground is white like a gessoed canvas, and filled with a moving curtain of dust and hair and spots. In order to relieve the regularity (the tyranny?) of the projector’s 24 frame per second pulse, freeze frames are introduced, showing up and isolating a jagged crimson edge, an orange wall with its soft cracks, a yellow corner. After isolating, and setting apart colours in the film’s opening movement, they are brought together in a careening, flickering collage in the film’s second minute. Anticipating and then re-blending the afterimages of these ragged colour fields, the palette slowly darkens as the layers accumulate, canceling out the brilliance of “pure” colours. A visceral, physical cinema making the eyeballs sweat. Hidden colour codes of the synapses firing: a new thought is being born, and a new movie to accompany it. [Mike Hoolboom, 2007]

Selected screenings:'
'Double Vision’(In celebration of
the Images Festival 20th Anniversary & the CFMDC’s 40th Anniversary) - Kino Arsenal, Berlin - nov 07
SF Cinematheque 'Starting in San Francisco/Going On' Curated and Presented by Charles Boone San Francisco, CA Feb 2007
2006 Whitney Biennial: Day for Night new york, ny - march - may 2006

selected exhibitions:
Mount Saint Vincent Art Gallery 'Pulse: Film And Painting After The Image' curated by Ingrid Jenkner & Barbara Sternberg, Halifax NS - oct/nov 2006

Collections:
cfmdc Spotlight Series DVD 2007

Distribution:
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CHRISTINA or the cfmdc