Delete TV

Director: Alexander Schellow Film: A_biography Synopsis: How can a person suffering from Alzheimer's still tell their own life? In the common room of an Alzheimer's clinic, music from the radio mixes with the low volume clatter of plates, the steps, the door movements or the quiet click of a light switch. The acoustic landscape triggers the dancing of an old lady in a wheelchair. She "remembers". A_biography recollects through drawn animation, point by point, the emergence of a memory exactly where it seems lost _ remembering: the possibility of being at a "point of view". This process takes place in a gliding state of constant transformation on the surface of a now closed body of memory. A_biography is not a fictional biography. A_biography realizes a biography as fiction. Director: Brian Alexander Film: Waking Field Synopsis: Waking Field is an optically based experimental film shot in realtime without computer generated effects or post processing. The only physical subject is light and water. I have developed open lens systems which operates in complete darkness in a 20x30 room. The actual lenses have no body and are a combination of glass and melting ice which degrade over time such that no two takes are exactly the same nor are they repeatable. The art of the process has become in creating the conditions which manifest the effect since it is largely uncontrollable, it is a practice of allowing and openness. The audio is created primarily in realtime with as few post tweaks as possible. It is hoped that this sense of the immersive, rooted in physical reality can serve to ground us and help reset media stereotypes. At a conceptual level, â??Waking Fieldâ?? represents an ongoing exploration in observation, meditation, and artistic research. Why do we stare and slowly decompress at the sight of light on water, a distant flock of birds or an empty bag hovering in an alley ? There is an apparent gray area of experience where cadence, familiarity and abstraction are in balance and serve to connect us in an elemental and unified manner. Ive sought to expand on these moments of â??betweennessâ?? and shift them towards the primary. Director: Natasa Prosenc Stearns Film: Misericorde Synopsis: In the Middle Ages a misericorde was a weapon used to put a wounded knight out of his misery. As a theological term, it refers to forgiveness and compassion. In French it has been used as an invocation, notably in Samuel Beckettâ??s Waiting for Godot: "Christ have mercy on us!" That there may be no one listening (or arriving) remains a central anguish, felt in the depression, addiction and other disorders, that are normal responses to increasingly abnormal culture. This film strikes the chord of even deeper anxiety, moving through a dreamscape of distorted mirrors, fluctuating boundaries, and uncertain identity. A man fractured in narcissistic multiplications, a woman overtaken by sorrow and grief, are lost both to themselves and to each other. Yet there is a beauty to their shared ordeal, a nature pulsing with possibilities as near and intimate as they seem out of reach. It suggests the accord that comes with awareness, the passion that springs from despair. Director: Jose Luis Benavides Film: In the Corner of Every Room Synopsis: In the Corner of Every Room (3 min 7 sec, 2022) is a visual interpretation of Afro-Caribbean queer writer, Kashif Andrew Grahamâ??s poem, by the same name. Reciting their poem over a lilting score, images of the 1964 Race Riots in Rochester, New York unfold a shattered kaleidoscope of haunting imagery. Archival and other found footage refracts light into the interior landscape of Grahamâ??s detachments with histories of racial violence in the U.S.