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Two Black Towers (shorts)

Two Black Towers
SHORT VIDEO MIN
-Programmed by Jennet Thomas

"I began with a personal challenge: to make a film in response to a favorite short film, The Black Tower by John Smith. This seminal work of British experimental filmmaking from 1987 is dastardly clever and weirdly haunting. It features a man who believes he is being followed around London by a tower and is a tour-de- force in the idea of what film can signal by what it does NOT represent. My Return takes some of these concerns and pursues them through the prism of my own world view, and features confessions from a cult of individuals who are experiencing indescribable perceptual anomalies of a dark and complex nature.

"This program builds outwards from some of the themes in our two works: Ken Nordines Word Jazz piece from 1957 uncannily echoes some of the ideas of collapsing space and mind, Shana Moultons alter ego explores the hidden supernatural powers of household objects, and Owen Lands jaw-droppingly smart labyrinth of a film screws with the mind of the Avant Garde film audience in the most delightful way." - Jennet Thomas

The Black Tower
By John Smith 24:00 16mm 1987 UK

The Return of the Black Tower
By Jennet Thomas 15:00 Video 2007 UK

Looks Like It's Going to Rain
By Ken Nordine 3:29 Audio 1957

Whispering Pines #5
By Shana Moulton 6:32 Video 2005

On The Marriage Broker Joke as Cited by Sigmund Freud in Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious, or Can The Avant-Garde Artist be Wholed?
By Owen Land (Formerly George Landow) 17:00 16mm 1977-79