Found Footage

Line Describing Your Mom, Michael Robinson
Michael Robinson
Line Describing Your Mom

This is the new choreography of devotion, via the vlog of southern nightmares. This is the light that never goes out. This is the line describing your mom.

Evan Meaney, Ceibas: Sigma Fugue
Evan Meaney
Ceibas: Sigma Fugue
Ceibas: Epilogue - The Well of Representation
Ceibas: We Things at Play

Fashioned out of home movies recovered from failing hard drives, this glitch-art video makes comparisons between different forms of memory - suggesting that, while error and decay may keep us up at night, they might also be the way we put our ghosts to bed.

-- Evan Meaney

Jesse McLean, The Invisible World
Jesse McLean
The Invisible World
Magic for Beginners
Remote
Somewhere only we know

A deceased hoarder, reconstituted through technology, recounts a difficult childhood as inhabitants of a virtual world struggle to reconcile materialistic tendencies. A scientist leads an effort to understand the passage of time, but the data is unreliable. The question remains, what happens to our things after we are gone?

Jesse McLean
Jesse McLean Videoworks: Volume 1

The three videos that comprise Jesse McLean Videoworks: Volume 1 (The Eternal Quarter Inch, Somewhere only we know and The Burning Blue) all concern various facets of our complicated emotional and psychological relationships to spectacle.

Cam Archer, Their Houses
Cam Archer
Their Houses

Filmmaker Cam Archer examines and explores his ordinary, suburban neighborhood in search of hidden truths, new narratives and a better understanding of his fading, creative self. Combing heavily degraded video with personal photographs and real life neighbors, Archer re-imagines the concept of 'home video'. In an attempt to distance himself from his subjects, actress Jena Malone narrates the piece as Archer in the first person.

Bryan Boyce, Walt Disney's 'Taxi Driver'
Bryan Boyce
Walt Disney's 'Taxi Driver'

Walt Disney's re-imagineering of Martin Scorsese's classic film "Taxi Driver" follows Mickey Mouse-obsessed Travis Bickle as he looks for love in a rapidly transforming New York City. A 'fair use' parody by Bryan Boyce.

"A brilliant video essay."

-- Roger Ebert

Workers Leaving the Factory - Ten Days that Shook the World, Les LeVeque
Les LeVeque
Workers Leaving the Factory - Ten Days that Shook the World
Traders Leaving the Exchange, A Guard and the Street V.1

Workers Leaving the Factory - Ten Days that Shook the World – downloaded, repeatedly recompressed and reversed V.1 is a 13-minute re-edit of the film Workers Leaving The Lumière’s Factory in Lyon.

Doug Ischar, Alone With You
Doug Ischar
Alone With You

At the heart of Alone With You is the notion of impassioned avarice, i.e. the kind of motivated acquisitiveness that drives both erotic desire and obsessive collecting.

Brent Coughenour, Ouroboros: Music of the Spheres
Brent Coughenour
Ouroboros: Music of the Spheres
The Prognosticator (Or, We Are All Pythagoreans Now)
The Physical Impossibility of Life in the Mind of Someone Dead

Ouroboros: Music of the Spheres is Chapter 3 of Mysterium Cosmographicum.

"Positing a linear continuum, with 'nothing' at one end of the spectrum and 'something' at the other, at what point does 'nothing' become 'something?'"

Untitled (Nixon / HAL)
John Neff
Untitled (Nixon / HAL)

This video is a 7-minute single channel piece consisting of two monologues: the first is a speech prepared for Richard Nixon in the event of a moon landing disaster in 1969, the second is the final words of the computer HAL from the film 2001.

This title is only available on Suitable Video, Volume 1.

Manhole 452
Jeanne C. Finley, John Muse
Manhole 452

Despite assurances from local municipalities, a fact of life is that Manholes blow sky high more frequently than most people realize. Manhole 452 directs the viewer’s attention to the shapes, sizes and patterns of manhole covers on Geary Street in San Francisco, and then plunges deep below into the manholes themselves to explore the hidden threat that lies below.

Physical Impossibility of Life
Brent Coughenour
The Physical Impossibility of Life in the Mind of Someone Dead
The Prognosticator (Or, We Are All Pythagoreans Now)

The Physical Impossibility of Life in the Mind of Someone Dead is Chapter 2 of Mysterium Cosmographicum.

I can’t live if living is without you, he said as his tear-stained cheek glistened in the glare of the klieg lights. Slowly, he tightened his finger around the trigger . . . .

The Prognosticator (Or, We Are All Pythagoreans Now)
Brent Coughenour
The Prognosticator (Or, We Are All Pythagoreans Now)
The Physical Impossibility of Life in the Mind of Someone Dead

The Prognosticator (Or, We Are All Pythagoreans Now) is Chapter 1 of Mysterium Cosmographicum.

These Blazeing Starrs!
Deborah Stratman
...These Blazeing Starrs!

Since comets have been recorded, they've augured catastrophe, messiahs, upheaval and end times. A short film about these meteoric ice-cored fireballs and their historic ties to divination that combines imagery of 15th-18th century European broadsides with NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory footage.

Village, silenced
Deborah Stratman
Village, silenced

A re-working of Humphrey Jenning's 1943 seminal docu-drama The Silent Village wherein coal miners from the Wlsh village of Cwmgiedd re-enact the Nazi invasion and annihilation of the resisting Czech villagers of Lidice. Principal focus in this re-mix is upon the way sound is used as a mode of social control.

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