Whirl of Confusion
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And the Sun Flowers -
Shot Film -
Contre-jour -
Film For Invisible Ink Case No. 142: Abbreviation For Dead Winter (Diminished By 1,794) -
False Aging -
Mount Shasta -
Mount Shasta
'And to increase our perplexity we were plunged in a whirl of confusion.' Includes works by Klahr, Müller, Pope and Gatten.
Mark Webber
And the Sun Flowers
'Notes from the distant future and forgotten past. An ethereal flower and disembodied voice guide you through the spaces in between.' (Mary Helena Clark)Director
Mary Helena Clark
Country
USA
Running time
5min
Year
2008
Shot Film
Taking the expression 'to shoot a film' at face value, this 35mm reel has been blasted with a shotgun.Director
Greg Pope
Country
UK, Norway
Running time
4min
Year
2009
Contre-jour
My Eyes! My Eyes! Flickering out from the screen and direct to your retina, Contre-jour is not for the optic neurotic. Take a deep breath and try to relax as Müller and Girardet conduct their examination.Director
Matthias Müller, Christoph Giradet
Country
Germany
Running time
11min
Year
2009
Film For Invisible Ink Case No. 142: Abbreviation For Dead Winter (Diminished By 1,794)
'A single piece of paper, a second stab at suture, a story three times over, a frame for every mile. Words by Charles Darwin.' (David Gatten)Director
David Gatten
Country
USA
Running time
13min
Year
2008
wolf's froth / amongst other things
By chance or circumstance, wolf's froth's covert syntax refuses to be unpicked. Entangling anxious domesticity with the spectre of aggression, it conjures a mood of underlying discomfort and intrigue.Director
Paul Abbott
Country
UK
Running time
15min
Year
2009
False Aging
Klahr's surreal collage journeys through lost horizons of comic book Americana and is brought back down to earth by Drella's dream. And nobody called, and nobody came.Director
Lewis Klahr
Country
USA
Running time
15min
Year
2008
Mount Shasta
What is ostensibly a proposal for a film script is acted out, without artifice, in a bare loft space as Mantler plays a plaintive lament. A puppet show like none other that will leave you bemused, befuddled and bewildered.Director
Oliver Husain
Country
Canada
Running time
8min
Year
2008
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