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This weekend, the audience can sit down, meet the artists and dig into the
rare, rich mix of programs from the Middle East, South America, festival's
open call and FreeWaves' first TV pilot. 68 works of film and video have
been organized into 9 incarnations of resistance: addiction, sexuality, and
suffering; and others through security, paranoia, and moral culpability
during war. There's much to see and time to discuss. Refreshments
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Weekend:
#1: Nov 5-7
#2: Nov 12-14
#3: Nov 20
#4: Nov 27
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Curated by Douglas Chang
Friday, November 12, 2004, 7:30 PM
This program explores the process of layering in all of its paradoxical,
obscuring, ambiguous and alluring manifestations. At a time when
nakedness is coveted but nudity condemned; when WMD remain perpetually
out of reach, hidden somewhere in a gaping desert of perhaps, the
ultimate aphrodisiac may be the search for truth itself.
Featuring works by: Annmarie Lanesey, James Duesing, Alinah Azadeh,
Caitlin Berrigan, Tobias Tovera, Alex Stikich, Kent Lambert, Kristina
Faragher, Eric Saks, Francois Bucher, and Eliza Barrios
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Curated by Guillermina Zabala
Friday, November 12, 2004, 9:30 PM
Deconstructing America, decomposing America, deciphering America, decoding
America, de-symbolizing America, and re-editing America. Stereotypes, icons,
symbols, idols, political figures, slogans, media and commercials play an intricate,
dangerous, and often subliminal role in American life. What kind of information
is battering at our collective consciousness? This group of artists experiments,
both intellectually and mechanically, with various pieces of appropriated media
and original footage, creating a unique and surreal look. The results suggest
that manipulated video work may be more real than reality.
Featuring works by: Aaron Valdez, Norman Cowie, Jim Finn, GNN, John Davis, Mark
Boswell, Thomas Aigelsreiter, Les LeVeque, and Joon Soo Ha
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Curated by José Roca
Saturday, November 13, 2004, 3:00 PM
Video cameras are no longer solely a tourist fixture; they have become
so commonplace in both domestic and working environments that each
and every aspect of our daily life is being documented in some way.
In this context, the boundaries of "reality," "documentary," "historical
fiction," and "sociological field work" have blurred,
casting a veil of suspicion over all that we see: are we witnessing
something, or is it being staged for us? Does it make a difference?
A Taste of the Pain of Others brings together works that
simultaneously entice the viewer to delve into someone else's
tragedy, while maintaining a degree of strangeness and/or repulsion.
Featuring works by: Iván Marino, Carlos Garaicoa, Brooke Alfaro,
Monika Bravo, and Juan Manuel Echavarría
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Curated by Julie Lazar
Saturday, November 13, 2004, 5:00 PM
Inheritance offers a mixed palette of programs imbued with bitter sweetness,
humor, frustration, sadness, and tragedy. As the stories unfold, we observe familiar
connecting threads, obstructing knots, or irregularities among the characters
that indicate how personal choices and acts impact the larger socio-political
circumstances of the world we share.
Featuring works by: Quinrine Racké & Helena
Muskens, Ruth Pringle, Cynthia
Greig & Richard H. Smith, Trevor
Fife, Melinda Morey, and Natalia
Almada
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Directed by Juan Devis
Saturday, November 13, 2004, 7:30 PM
After 15 years of media programming at art venues, billboards, a
web site and public TV, Freewaves opens the black box. Come see what
TV could be!
Freewaves' premier TV pilot follows 4 Los Angeles-based artists:
Rubén Ortiz-Torres, Yoshua Okón, Jones Sanchez and
Rubén Ochoa, as they negotiate and re-imagine, from conception
to realization, a unique vision of Los Angeles.
Familiar in tone, Inter-State reveals that art practices,
much as any other profession, rely on instinct, personal histories,
and a stubborn understanding of what lies outside of the artist's
studio.
Reception with featured artists, director and crew.
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Curated by Bill Kelley, Jr.
Saturday, November 13, 2004, 10:00 PM
Earlier this year, in a series of not-so-coincidental events, above the raging
glory of Super Bowl patriotic undercurrents, a black woman revealed her breast...
and the genie of media stupidity was unleashed. The way that we as Americans
inconsistently engage with sexuality – our consent of Janet's lyrics,
our outrage at her breast – reveals the true power of images and adds fuel
to the fire of engagement.
Featuring works by: Brook Alfaro, John Richey, Micaela
O'Herlihy, Jim Skuldt,
Tobias Tovera, Caitlin Berrigan, Jacqueline Salloum and Enid Baxter Blader
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Curated by November Paynter
Sunday, November 14, 2004, 5:00 PM
These video works investigate the way inhabitants of rapidly expanding
cities use their built environment to their full potential in ingenious
and often extreme ways.
Repurposing of exploitative spaces change the way they are perceived,
sliding them from insignificant to utopian. In these works, we view
the creation of personal space, as people appropriate their physical
surroundings for purposes that are often at odds with original intentions
of local authorities, builders, designers and residents.
Featuring works by: Osman Bozkurt, Can Altay, Atlas Group, Solmaz
Shahbazi, and Neutral |
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Curated by Mike Blockstein
Sunday, November 14, 2004, 7:00PM
In Security Blanket, moments that once were politically-charged now seem innocent;
time-honored anthems are turned on their heads; and the past is used to comment
on an uncomfortable present. In an age of heightened security, these works question
just what exactly constitutes personal and collective security.
Featuring works by: Jeroen Offerman, Aaron
Valdez, David Barker, Bryan
Konefsky,
James Elaine & William Basinski, Erika
Yeomans, Kayo Nakamura,
and Carola
Dertnig
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Curated by Thom Andersen
Sunday, November 14, 2004, 9:00 PM
Jonathan Rosenbaum once wrote that a movie that mattered to him was like "a
letter from a friend who lived far away but knew exactly what I was thinking."
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this sense, these short films and videos are like postcards, records of journeys
we are fortunate to receive.
Featuring works by: Julie Speechley, Bryan
Boyce, Gerard Holthuis, Eveline
Ketterings,
Nicolas Provost, Guido
van der Werve, Anna Abrahams & Jan
Frederik Groot
and Robert Frank
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