This short movie is a marginally cinematic homage to a public prank that was directed at actor Paul Newman in Westport Connecticut in 1983. According to the film maker, "this road sign jihad caused stark pandemonium on the streets of Westport... Mothers cried, fathers panicked and children had nightmares."
Konefsky states that the slide documentation that makes up much of this movie studies how images in time act like metaphoric fly paper. That is, how meaning shifts over the 20 years since the images were first photographed. Apparently he also realized after making this movie that this kind of narcissistic research should be left to the pros.
Bryan Konefsky, his spouse, and their three lovely dogs live in Albuquerque, New Mexico. There, Bryan teaches film/video history and production courses through the Media Arts Department at the University of New Mexico. Bryan is also a board member of both Basement Films (a regional film cooperative), and Closet Cinema (a screening series dedicated to promoting queer cinema).
In Albuquerque Bryan creates odd, little movies and video installations that often employ a quirky sense of humor to look at issues such as identity, community and maleness.
Konefsky's work has been screened/exhibited at venues such as Artcite (Windsor, Ontario), Blinding Light Cinema (Vancouver), the Long Beach Museum (LA), the AFI Film Festival (LA), LACE (LA), the Dallas Video Festival (Texas), The Ann Arbor Film Festival (Michigan), the Knitting Factory (NYC), the Kitchen (NYC), The Robert Beck Memorial Cinema (NYC), Videoex (Switzerland) and the European Media Arts Festival (Germany).. Bryan also seems to spend a fair amount of time at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Alberta, Canada... though, no one is really sure why.
bryank@unm.edu
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