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State Of Flux (Wave #1) and Gathering
Abstract?
(Country: Russia; Year: 2009; Director: Alexei Dmitriev)
Black Box 2: Open Your Eyes
Exploring the notion of abstraction.
The Audit (Line Item: Foster Child) (My Nmae is Pochsy)
(Country: Canada; Year: 2010; Director: Karen Hines; Writer: Karen Hines; Stars: Karen Hines)
Black Box 3: Time Travel
A woman awaits the tax man's wrath.
Bonanza
(Year: 2009; Director: Ching-Yi Tseng)
Black Box 2: Open Your Eyes
Avant garde examination of landscape.
Chasing Waves
(Country: Ireland, US; Year: 2009; Director: Paul O'Donoghue), Trailer
Black Box 2: Open Your Eyes
Visual music composed in real-time using voltage controlled video synthesis.
Close Your Eyes
(Country: Austria; Year: 2010; Director: Billy Roisz)
Black Box 2: Open Your Eyes
Abstract inspired by the mescaline experiments of Henri Michaux.
Trees Of Syntax, Leaves Of Axis and Lumphini 2552
De Luce 1: Vegetare
(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Janis Crystal Lipzin)
Super 8/digital hybrid experimental film, exploring use of colour.
Black Box 1: Great And Small
Double Identity
(Country: Canada; Year: 2009; Director: Gerda Cammaer)
Black Box 3: Time Travel
Avant garde look at the nature of identity.
Ex Stasis
(Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Jake Astbury; Writer: Helena Astbury, Jake Astbury)
Black Box 3: Time Travel
A traumatic memory is recounted.
frameframer
(Country: Austria; Year: 2009; Director: Barbara Doser)
Black Box 2: Open Your Eyes
Experimental monochromatic short.
Gathering
(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Robert Todd), Official Site
Traces of the spring.
Black Box 1: Great And Small
What Part of the Earth Is Inhabited (After Pliny the Elder) and Grim's Dyke
Grim's Dyke
(Country: UK; Year: 2010; Director: James Holcombe)
Experimental short.
Black Box 1: Great And Small
How to Catch A Mole
(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Juan David Gonzalez Monroy)
Black Box 2: Open Your Eyes
Hand-coloured found footage.
Journal And Remarks
(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: David Gatten)
Images from the Galapagos intermingle with pages from Darwin's book A Voyage Of The Beagle.
Black Box 1: Great And Small
Leaning Against A Silver Willow (Oslanjanje na srebrnu vrbu)
(Country: Croatia; Year: 2009; Director: Nikola Kovac)
Black Box 3: Time Travel
Study of the relationship of time and space.
The Light Of Forgiveness (La Luz Del Pedron)
(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Eileen Richardson)
Black Box 3: Time Travel
Abstract exploration of the fear of rejection.
Silk and Paradise Later
Lumphini 2552
(Country: Thailand; Year: 2009; Director: Tomonari Nishikawa)
Avant garde film using still photography captured in Bangkok's Lumphini Park.
Black Box 1: Great And Small
Mark
(Country: Canada; Year: 2009; Director: Mike Holboom)
A personal portrait of the filmmaker's lost friend and collaborator.
Movement #1
(Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Daniel Hopkins), Official Site
Black Box 2: Open Your Eyes
A journey on the New York subway.
non-Aryan
(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Abraham Ravett)
Black Box 3: Time Travel
Cinematic tribute to a 'non-Aryan' arriving in the US in the 1950s.
Paradise Later
(Country: Austria, Germany; Year: 2010; Director: Ascan Breuer; Writer: Ascan Breuer; Stars: Tony Dunham)
Shots of pollution in an Indonesian river are accompanied by the sounds of a travelling salesman reporting to his board.
Black Box 1: Great And Small
De Luce 1: Vegetare and Wound Footage
Perestroika
(Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Sarah Turner)
The director retraces her route along the Trans-siberian railway that proved to be her last trip with a friend, exploring the impact of the past on the present.
Point Line Plane
(Year: 2010; Director: Simon Payne)
Black Box 2: Open Your Eyes
Shifting monochrome grids explore the nature of shifting perspective.
Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog (Zwölf Boxkämpfer jagen Viktor quer über den großen Sylter Deich 140 9)
(Year: 2010; Director: Johann Lurf)
Black Box 2: Open Your Eyes
Bombardment of found footage taken from films the director screened as a projectionist.
Scene 32
(Country: US, India; Year: 2009; Director: Shambhavi Kaul)
Avant garde depiction of the salt fields of central Kaatch.
Black Box 1: Great And Small
Silk
(Year: 2009; Director: Naheed Raza), Official Site
The reeling of the Golden Orb Weaver a spider – unique for the golden hue of the web it weaves.
Black Box 1: Great And Small
Scene 32 and Journal And Remarks
State Of Flux (Wave #1)
(Country: Austria; Year: 2009; Director: Rainer Gamsjäger)
Exploring the nature of chaotic systems through the examination of water.
Black Box 1: Great And Small
Surface Kinetic
(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: David Ellsworth)
Black Box 3: Time Travel
Matter in motion.
A Thousand Scapes
(Country: Netherlands; Year: 2009; Director: Martijn van Boven)
Black Box 2: Open Your Eyes
Black and white exploration of the basics of cinema.
to the horse dream of arms
(Country: US; Year: 2010; Director: Stephanie Barber)
Black Box 3: Time Travel
Brief study of the ways of time travel.
Trees Of Syntax, Leaves Of Axis
(Country: Canada; Year: 2009; Director: Daichi Saito)
Examination of maple trees set to a contrapuntal violin score.
Black Box 1: Great And Small
frameframer and The Light Of Forgiveness
Vineland
(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Laura Kraning)
Black Box 3: Time Travel
Experimental short filmed at the last drive-in movie theater in LA.
What Part of the Earth Is Inhabited (After Pliny the Elder)
(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Erin Espelie)
Exploration of evolution and life.
Black Box 1: Great And Small
Wound Footage
(Country: Germany; Year: 2009; Director: Thorsten Fleisch), Official Site, Trailer
Unification of the digital with the analogue world.
Black Box 2: Open Your Eyes
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