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Learning to Live on Your Own (shorts program)

Anthology Film Archives
New York, NY

Losing Ground
DIR PATTY CHANG
SHORT VIDEO 6:00 MIN
The grass is green but your legs have failed you, and home is still so far across the field. Another bold, rigorously embodied performance tape from the inimitable Patty Chang.

Underscan
DIR NANCY HOLT
SHORT VIDEO 21:00 MIN
"Holt's terrain is her Aunt Ethel's home in New Bedford, Massachusetts, presented in still images and excerpts from letters to the artist from her aunt. Holt pays particular attention to her aunt's poignant story of aging, altering the images by 'underscanning' them--a technical process that compresses the edges of the video image--building an intrinsic limitation into the tape: the compression of time and personal history represented by the images and narrative. This process echoes Holt's reading, slightly distorting and compressing the information in the letters as she presents them." - Video Data Bank

And We All Shine On
DIR MICHAEL ROBINSON
SHORT 16MM 7:00 MIN
"An ill wind is transmitting through the lonely night, its signals spreading myth and deception along its murky path. Conjuring a vision of a post-apocalyptic paradise, this unworldly broadcast reveals its hidden demons via layered landscapes and karaoke, singing the dangers of mediated spirituality."- M. Robinson

Regarding the Pain of Susan Sontag (notes on Camp)
DIR STEVE REINKE
ANIMATION VIDEO 4:00 MIN
An old path to school retread. A cartoon sketched while sitting beneath a tree that lies somewhere between childhood and the grave, your grave. "Be serious, be passionate, wake up!" Oh, Sontag, we loved you for your moral urgency, and maybe we'll even take your advice. Or not.

3/60: Baume im Herbst
DIR KURT KREN
SHORT 16MM 5:00 MIN
"The first embodiment of [a] concept of structural activity in cinema comes in Kren's Baume im Herbst where the camera as subjective observer is constrained within a systematic or structural procedure, incidentally the precursors of the most structuralist aspect of Michael Snow's later work. In this film, perception of material relationships in the world is seen to be no more than a product of the structural activity in the work. Art forms experience." - Malcolm Le Grice, Abstract Film and Beyond

Blue Light
DIR SANDRA GIBSON
SHORT 35MM 9:00 MIN
'This is blue, Trog. Blue!' said Joan Crawford, with perfect diction and a damaged soul. In the end, her efforts at teaching that titular troglodyte of her final screen role proved futile, but like so many moments in a Crawford film, there's something profound beneath the camp. Understanding color, experiencing its emotional charge, is part of what keeps up human, and this work of deft light play and painted film by Sandra Gibson serves as a necessary, monochromatic reminder.

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