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Curated by Thom Andersen
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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." In
this sense, these short films and videos are like postcards, records
of journeys we are fortunate to receive.
In FIELDS (2002, 17 min.), Julia Speechley finds traces of impending war on the
now bucolic battlefields of World War I. In WORLD'S FAIR WORLD (2002, 10 min.),
Brian Boyce discovers another, stranger movie inside a short fiction about a
visit to the 1939 New York World's Fair.
Dutch film-maker Gerard Holthuis traveled to the American southwest to make SFO
(2000, 10 min.) – Monument Valley in high contrast black-and-white-and he photographed
MARSU ABU GALAWA (2003, 10 min.) in the coral reefs of the Red Sea, then syncopated
the sea creatures to the music of Abdel Basset Hamouda.
Dutch film-maker Eveline Ketterings traveled to Hong Kong to film THE BURNING
BRIDE (2003, 6 min.), a document that makes no attempt to explain the strangeness
of what it records.
NEED ANY HELP? (2002, 5 min.) by Nicolas Provost is a fake found footage film,
actually photographed in the fjords of Norway.
In NUMMER TWEE (2003, 3 min.), Guido van der Werve transforms what he calls a "desolate...sublimely
suburban" Dutch neighborhood with some fanciful street dancing.
In RESORT (2002, 15 min.), Dutch film-makers Anna
Abrahams & Jan Frederik Groot explore
a suburban village constructed for asylum seekers: a study of architecture becomes
a portrait of people responding to it.
Robert Frank made PAPER ROUTE (2003, 24 min.) close to his home in Nova Scotia:
he simply followed his friend Bobby MacMillan as he delivered 158 copies of the
Herald-Tribune on one cold March morning. |
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