CSV day one

Hello All,

It was a wonderful day yesterday for me too! Thanks for the positive feedback.

I will email you Aleesa's email as well as the digital of the screening list and my notes.

Here is the url for the flash animation I told you about: http://ic3.deviantart.com/fs12/f/2006/268/c/e/redkangac.swf

You have to download it to see it.

You will need extra memory to run Avid Free DV so I have sent in a request for a quote to upgrade the computers to 2 gigs of RAM. I will let you know asap.

Please see the 8 previous posts - and comment on the movies as you wish - also please respond to this post with any other items you would like to discuss. I will try to check here daily.

Kathy

csv discussion of video arts piece 1

1ST PERSON/CONFESSIONAL:
1. Lisa Steele, Birthday Suite, 13:00, 1974
"On the occasion of my 27th birthday I decided to do a tape that chronicled my passage through time. I have always been clumsy, tripping, dropping, falling with alarming regularity. This tape accepts the extent of the consequences." L.S.

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2. Deirdre Logue, Eclipse, 4:20, 2005
In her studio, the artist fears the worst. Camera up close, we watch as she tries to determine the source of that strange internal cracking, all the while a sinister blackness descends upon her.
Eclipse is a part of a series entitled Why Always Instead of Just Sometimes. The series is a selection of 12 short works that record accomplishments without impact, small feats of moderate strength and moments of mild impudence. They are reflections on aging, breaking down and reparation. They are works that describe our need for intimacy and our fears of exposure. They are always, when we really wish they were just sometimes.

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PERFOMANCE/PERSONNA
3. Colin Campbell, True/False, 9:00, 1972
In True/False, the artist makes a number of potentially revealing statements about himself, then verifies each statement as "true", and disqualifies each statement as "false". A play on the adage that the camera does not lie (but the artist probably does).

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4. Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby, I am a Conjuror, 8:30, 2003
I Am A Conjuror is a short science-fiction narrative about a couple who have revolutionized the course of medical and scientific history. We observe the couple as they go about their ordinary domestic lives. We watch them getting up, bathing, and talking about what their future holds. Beautifully shot and carefully paced, I Am A Conjuror asks the viewer to reconsider some of the most basic ideas we hold about science, culture and everyday life. I Am A Conjuror is one segment of a musical video-art science-fiction trilogy entitled The New Freedom Founders.

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FOUND MEDIA
5. Mike Hoolboom, Hey Madonna, 9:00, 1997
The third in a series of correspondences with Madonna. Cast in the form of a letter, including synchronous moments (a doctor's visit, reminiscences about death), it narrates a tale of former lovers, one of whom has become positive. A fairytale of mourning.

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6. Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, I am a Boy Band, 5:10, 2002
A cloned boyband co-opts an Elizabethan madrigal to express its heartbreak over lost love.

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FORMAL
8. Kika Thorne and Adrien Blackwell, Sheet Sculpture, 9:00, 1997
Sheet Sculpture is a catalogue of the shapes made playful by two people under a sheet. While its physicality references landscape and roofing; its mediation removes it from the arena of performance and allows it to exist as sculpture, drawing a line between formalism and naturalisms.

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ACTIVISM
9. Jonathan Culp, Ghost Squat, 5:10, 2005
Toronto has a new mayor, but the reality of homelessness remains the same, as OCAP attempts to squat 590 Jarvis in November 2004. "Ghost Squat" attempts to re-vision the protest documentary, with the usual elements - speeches, marching, confrontation - reorganized visually, aurally and chronologically. With a haunting soundtrack from Toronto chamber-rock band