Let’s talk about the weather. Or, at least observe it. Two climate scientists go about their daily routines throughout the seasons in The Observers, a meditative rumination on observational study directed by Jacqueline Goss.
Filmed atop Mr. Washington in New Hampshire, which is the highest peak in the Northeastern United States, The Observers has all appearances of being a vérité documentary. It follows two different scientists at two different points of year — one in the freezing winter snow and the other during a warmer time — who make recordings and analysis of the weather.
Both scientists are women and their work is a lonely endeavor. The wintry scientist operates in extreme solitude. She is the only person at this research facility and it’s no wonder why — the freezing weather and extreme winds seem to be completely unbearable. But, she braves the great outdoors, gathering data on little instruments while...
Filmed atop Mr. Washington in New Hampshire, which is the highest peak in the Northeastern United States, The Observers has all appearances of being a vérité documentary. It follows two different scientists at two different points of year — one in the freezing winter snow and the other during a warmer time — who make recordings and analysis of the weather.
Both scientists are women and their work is a lonely endeavor. The wintry scientist operates in extreme solitude. She is the only person at this research facility and it’s no wonder why — the freezing weather and extreme winds seem to be completely unbearable. But, she braves the great outdoors, gathering data on little instruments while...
- 5/28/2015
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Toronto’s Images Festival celebrated its 25th year back on April 12-21 and gave out a bevy of awards, many with cash prizes, to several experimental film and video makes.
Images is unique among most experimental festivals in that a large portion of it is devoted to gallery installation pieces, many of which won awards including the top one, the Images Prize. This award, which is sponsored by Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan went to media artist Gary Kibbins for his Girl Sitting on Blue Chair. And, best of all, if you’re in Toronto and missed this piece, you can still check it out Trinity Square Video until May 19.
The second top prize of the festival, the Deluxe Cinematic Vision Award also went to an installation piece, Joshua Bonnetta’s Strange Lines and Distances. (Unfortunately, this is no longer on display.)
On the more traditionally screened videos side of the fest,...
Images is unique among most experimental festivals in that a large portion of it is devoted to gallery installation pieces, many of which won awards including the top one, the Images Prize. This award, which is sponsored by Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan went to media artist Gary Kibbins for his Girl Sitting on Blue Chair. And, best of all, if you’re in Toronto and missed this piece, you can still check it out Trinity Square Video until May 19.
The second top prize of the festival, the Deluxe Cinematic Vision Award also went to an installation piece, Joshua Bonnetta’s Strange Lines and Distances. (Unfortunately, this is no longer on display.)
On the more traditionally screened videos side of the fest,...
- 5/3/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Toronto’s Images Festival celebrates it’s 25th anniversary on April 12-21 at theaters, galleries and other venues all over the city. They are celebrating with a massive event with films and videos, live performances, installations, artist talks and other events.
Below is the lineup for Images’ specific film screening events and some live performances. The fest’s Opening Night film is John Akomfrah’s The Nine Muses, which takes a poetic look at the immigrant experience, particularly through using images of Caribbean and African migrants in the 1950s and ’60s.
The fest will close with a live score by alt-rock band Yo La Tengo accompanying the avant-garde scientific underwater films by French documentary filmmaker Jean Painlevé. Yo La Tengo has been performing “Sounds of Science” since they were commissioned for the project by the San Francisco Film Festival in 2001.
In between these two events is a lineup of feature-length experimental works,...
Below is the lineup for Images’ specific film screening events and some live performances. The fest’s Opening Night film is John Akomfrah’s The Nine Muses, which takes a poetic look at the immigrant experience, particularly through using images of Caribbean and African migrants in the 1950s and ’60s.
The fest will close with a live score by alt-rock band Yo La Tengo accompanying the avant-garde scientific underwater films by French documentary filmmaker Jean Painlevé. Yo La Tengo has been performing “Sounds of Science” since they were commissioned for the project by the San Francisco Film Festival in 2001.
In between these two events is a lineup of feature-length experimental works,...
- 4/9/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Tonight marks the opening of the 3rd annual Migrating Forms experimental media festival. This year, the fest is opening with Melanie Gilligan’s Popular Unrest, a sci-fi thriller that takes place in an alternate future where humans no longer interact openly with each other. In this world, innocent victims are being slaughtered in the streets by invisible assailants.
Gilligan’s film is inspired equally by the “body horror” films of David Cronenberg and the CSI TV forensic series.
Once again, Migrating Forms is taking place at the Anthology Film Archives in NYC. It runs every night from tonight, May 20, to Sunday, May 29. The full lineup of films and videos screening at Migrating Forms can be found on Bad Lit here.
Some highlights of the fest include Jacqueline Goss‘ meteorology meditation The Observers, Liu Jiayin’s two-part family drama Oxhide and Oxhide II, Madison Brookshire’s light processing experimentation Color Series,...
Gilligan’s film is inspired equally by the “body horror” films of David Cronenberg and the CSI TV forensic series.
Once again, Migrating Forms is taking place at the Anthology Film Archives in NYC. It runs every night from tonight, May 20, to Sunday, May 29. The full lineup of films and videos screening at Migrating Forms can be found on Bad Lit here.
Some highlights of the fest include Jacqueline Goss‘ meteorology meditation The Observers, Liu Jiayin’s two-part family drama Oxhide and Oxhide II, Madison Brookshire’s light processing experimentation Color Series,...
- 5/20/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
The 18th annual Chicago Underground Film Festival is ready to have another monumental year at the Gene Siskel Film Center on June 2-9, featuring a killer lineup with new films from some true underground legends.
First, Usama Alshaibi will screen his latest, most visually stunning and conceptually innovative feature Profane, about a spiritually confused Muslim sex worker trying to recapture her lost jinn — a demon of smokeless fire — on streets of the Windy City.
Then, documentary filmmakers Jeff Krulik and John Heyn return to their hard rockin’ roots with Heavy Metal Picnic, which relives one of the most notorious ’80s weekend parties in the history of Maryland and the world — the Full Moon Jamboree, which if you can remember it means you weren’t there. Plus, Hmp will be screened with Heyn and Krulik’s underground classic Heavy Metal Parking Lot.
Also in the documentary vein, are Marie Losier‘s...
First, Usama Alshaibi will screen his latest, most visually stunning and conceptually innovative feature Profane, about a spiritually confused Muslim sex worker trying to recapture her lost jinn — a demon of smokeless fire — on streets of the Windy City.
Then, documentary filmmakers Jeff Krulik and John Heyn return to their hard rockin’ roots with Heavy Metal Picnic, which relives one of the most notorious ’80s weekend parties in the history of Maryland and the world — the Full Moon Jamboree, which if you can remember it means you weren’t there. Plus, Hmp will be screened with Heyn and Krulik’s underground classic Heavy Metal Parking Lot.
Also in the documentary vein, are Marie Losier‘s...
- 5/13/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
The 3rd annual Migrating Forms is set to run on May 20-29 at the Anthology Film Archives with yet another stunning lineup of current and classic experimental and avant-garde films and videos.
New work includes the U.S. premiere of Melanie Gilligan’s experimental sci-fi feature Popular Unrest for the fest’s Opening Night event. Then, throughout the fest, will be Jacqueline Goss‘ meteorology meditation The Observers, Liu Jiayin’s two-part family drama Oxhide and Oxhide II, Madison Brookshire’s light processing experimentation Color Series, Oliver Laxe’s meta-documentary You Are All Captains for the Closing Night event, and more.
New short works in the group programs include films and videos by Adele Horne, Andrew Lampert, Kevin Jerome Everson, Shana Moulton, Fern Silva, Olga Chernysheva, Dani Leventhal and more.
Classic retrospectives include Brazilian films by Glauber Rocha and French films written by Georges Perec. Electric Arts Intermix presents little-seen personal videos by L.
New work includes the U.S. premiere of Melanie Gilligan’s experimental sci-fi feature Popular Unrest for the fest’s Opening Night event. Then, throughout the fest, will be Jacqueline Goss‘ meteorology meditation The Observers, Liu Jiayin’s two-part family drama Oxhide and Oxhide II, Madison Brookshire’s light processing experimentation Color Series, Oliver Laxe’s meta-documentary You Are All Captains for the Closing Night event, and more.
New short works in the group programs include films and videos by Adele Horne, Andrew Lampert, Kevin Jerome Everson, Shana Moulton, Fern Silva, Olga Chernysheva, Dani Leventhal and more.
Classic retrospectives include Brazilian films by Glauber Rocha and French films written by Georges Perec. Electric Arts Intermix presents little-seen personal videos by L.
- 5/10/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Migrating Forms has just revealed the full program for its third edition, running May 20 through 29 at Anthology Film Archives in New York. And it's pretty impressive, so we're going to go the quickest route here and reproduce the release below the jump.
Special Events
Georges Perec Double Bill
Serie Noire Dir Alain Corneau (1979)
Georges Perec wrote dialogue made up almost entirely of cliches and aphorisms for this adaptation of Jim Thompson's A Hell of a Woman. "The only Thompson adaptation to truly express the author's deeply personal darkness." - Moving Image Source
Un homme qui dort (The Man Who Slept) Dir. Georges Perec and Bernard Queysanne (1974)
Adapted from Georges Perec's novel of the same name. Structured as a filmic sestina, Perec and Queysanne reimagine the framework of the novel while maintaining much of the original narration (read by Shelly Duvall in the English version!).
The Art of the...
Special Events
Georges Perec Double Bill
Serie Noire Dir Alain Corneau (1979)
Georges Perec wrote dialogue made up almost entirely of cliches and aphorisms for this adaptation of Jim Thompson's A Hell of a Woman. "The only Thompson adaptation to truly express the author's deeply personal darkness." - Moving Image Source
Un homme qui dort (The Man Who Slept) Dir. Georges Perec and Bernard Queysanne (1974)
Adapted from Georges Perec's novel of the same name. Structured as a filmic sestina, Perec and Queysanne reimagine the framework of the novel while maintaining much of the original narration (read by Shelly Duvall in the English version!).
The Art of the...
- 5/9/2011
- MUBI
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