THE MIND IS A LIAR AND A WHORE
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  Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 92 minutes |
“The Mind is a Liar and a Whore” is the apt title for director/writer Antero Alli’s entertaining and illuminating feature which uses the situation of a bio-terrorist attack in a US city to explore the many strategies which the human mind invents to cope with the uncertainties of life…
Posted on October 21, 2012 by David Finkelstein
IT TAKES TIME TO SEE
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  Year Released: 2000 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 14 minutes |
“Trio A” last only 4 and a half minutes, but it is exceedingly complex and dense…
Posted on September 15, 2012 by David Finkelstein
OF THIS, MEN SHALL KNOW NOTHING
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Year Released: 2010 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 6 minutes |
Stolberg has an uncanny ability to assemble fragmentary bits of action and imagery to simulate the hallucinatory intensity of a dream or a vision…
Posted on September 15, 2012 by David Finkelstein
MAGIC FOR BEGINNERS
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Year Released: 2010 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 20 minutes |
A witty and insightful essay about the dilemma of mass media and our emotional life, but it is a video which itself uses a variety of sophisticated media strategies…
Posted on September 14, 2012 by David Finkelstein
FIN DE SIÉCLE
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Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 8 minutes |
Quillian has a sharp eye for creating arresting, off balance visual compositions, and for using simple visual elements to create the sense of wonder and strangeness…
Posted on September 14, 2012 by David Finkelstein
THE ELEKTRA/VAMPYR VARIATIONS
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Year Released: 2009 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 28 minutes |
Turns hideous emotions into a gorgeous work of art…
Posted on September 13, 2012 by David Finkelstein
WHEN WALT WHITMAN WAS A LITTLE GIRL
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Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 12 minutes |
A vision of the poet as an old wise soul, whether temporarily housed in the body of a girl or a grown man or a woman…
Posted on September 13, 2012 by David Finkelstein
VARIFOLD
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Year Released: 2010 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 10 minutes |
Dares us to feel at home in the exhilaration of this shifting universe…
Posted on September 12, 2012 by David Finkelstein
THE MIRRORED CURTAIN
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Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 11 minutes |
Veers back and forth from the contemplative, sparse rhythms you might expect in a Larry Gottheim film to the snappy pace of “Entertainment Tonight…”
Posted on September 11, 2012 by David Finkelstein
IN THE SUN ROOM
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Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 14 minutes |
A series of continual aesthetic illuminations.
Posted on September 10, 2012 by David Finkelstein
THE FLORESTINE COLLECTION
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Year Released: 2010 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 33 minutes |
An artist who lived out her dream of fostering community through the arts every day…
Posted on September 10, 2012 by David Finkelstein
NUMBER ONE
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Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 10 minutes |
A world of flowing, intermingling energies, which nevertheless has a distinct and discernible structure…
Posted on November 18, 2011 by David Finkelstein
STOCHASTICS
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  Year Released: 2010 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 6 minutes |
In “Stochastics,” a new 6 minute short, French artist David Kidman takes a simple idea and expands it with fascinating results…
Posted on November 17, 2011 by David Finkelstein
I MY BIKE
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Year Released: 2001 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 6 minutes |
Riding a bike becomes a metaphor for navigating through danger…
Posted on November 16, 2011 by David Finkelstein
POOLSIDE MANNERS
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Year Released: 2010 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 9 minutes |
A kind of formalized physical comedy of manners, but without the humor…
Posted on November 15, 2011 by David Finkelstein