LUX MUNDI: Cinema Connection screening
Saturday March 9 - - 8pm - - Dreamland Theater
Wednesday March 13 - - 10pm - - Michigan Theater screening room
Alfonso Alvarez , San Francisco CA
My Good Eye 16mm 4 min 1995 Made for the Cinema Tent that travelled with the 1995 Lollapalooza Tour, My Good Eye is an amusing little piece of eye candy that even children can enjoy without the consent of adults.
Matthew Bakkom, NY NY
Channel Zero vhs 2:20 2001 A condensation of Reifenstahl's Triumph of the Will. This Cinematic X-ray reveals the shared oppositional skeleton of fascist idealogy and the concert film genre.
Pick Up On My Street vhs 1 min 2001 Like carbon into diamonds or films into dreams this version of Fuller's classic demonstrates just how far we've come/gone under the influence of monitor based culture.
09-08-2001 vhs 10 min 2001 A pre-war visual survey of one of America's busiest consumer/tourist avenues - Canal Street - located in New York City. Produced by the Canal Street Historical Society.
Chris McNamara, Windsor ONT
Principles of Communication miniDV 7min 2001 A brief examination of the politics of the workplace and the hollow authority of loud men. Formally, it's an educational film juxtaposed atop an accelerated view of a trip from Ann Arbor to Detroit.
Scott Miller, Minneapolis MN
Step off a ten foot platform with your clothes on 16mm 7min 1990 This film is to metaphysics what canned ham is to daylight savings time.
Rife w/ Fire 16mm 8min 1996 Non-dairy-creamer explosions. Burning steel wool projectiles. Flaming parafin with water. Rife's work demands consideration. The medium of fire lends itself succinctly to the medium of film. The shared essentials are principles of light and movement, and the caress of the flame on the emulsion.
New Kinomatoagraphic Union
What America Needs, An Interior Expedition VHS 15 min 1995 A poetic documentary based on interviews and portraits produced on a journey from the source of the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico. This work was inspired by a desire to understand the fundamental issues at the heart of American democracy through dialogue and travel.
Aqua Vitae miniDV 5min 2002 A video elegy to my late mother containing excerpts from a performance on Mother's Day 2000.
The Twelve Labors of Hercules miniDV 14min 2002 The myth, retold.
Naia Venturi, Ypsilanti MI
This is only a test. miniDV 4.5min 2001 An Impression of events from September to December of 2001. Processing personal reaction through the creation of a montage.
Potter-Belmar Labs, Ann Arbor MI
Twa Corbies vhs 6min 2000 Ancient Scottish ballad of two crows and their adventures.
