by Deborah Kelly (Australia, digital video, color, sound 2016, 03:56)
“The stop motion animation Lying Women attends both to printed art’s material qualities and its ideological freight. As a high school student in 70s Melbourne, my primary exposure to art history was through the pages of books. I studied the western canon at a triple remove: as a girl, as an antipodean girl, as an antipodean girl who had never seen the paintings except as printed papers’ cheap approximations of European glory. Lying Women imagines canonical reclining nudes’ escape from centuries of servitude to a worldview in which decorative passivity is their whole purpose. The work proposes a great gathering of queer female energy, a revolution, a collective will to autonomy.” (Deborah Kelly)

by Tina Takemoto (USA, digital video, b/w, sound, 05:35)
“An oblique portrait of gay Japanese American actor Sab Shimono, whose work on stage and screen spans more than five decades. The grammatology of his career attests to conflicting lexicons of race, representation, and selfhood.” (Tina Takemoto)

by Christopher Harris (USA, 16mm transferred to digital video, color, sound, 2016, 4:00)
“A performer lip-synchs to archival audio featuring the voice of author and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston as she describes her method of documenting African American folk songs in Florida. By design, nothing in this film is authentic except the source audio. The flickering images were produced with a hand-cranked Bolex so that the lip-synch is deliberately erratic and the rear projected, grainy, looped images of Masai tribesmen and women recycled from an educational film become increasingly abstract as the audio transforms into an incantation.” (Christopher Harris)

by Daniela Zahlner (Austria, digital video, color, sound, 2015, 02:00)
“Mr. Darcy: The synonym for the romantic hero since 1813, as he first appeared in Jane Austen‘s novel Pride and Prejudice. The book had several movie adaptations (especially prominent [were those from] 1940, 1995 and 2005), which not only inscribe Darcy’s character in popular culture, but also illustrate our capitalist notions of love and desire, as well as a wish for escapism into a pre-industrialized, pre-virtualized world. I, too, fell for Mr. Darcy. Thanks to my webcam and Photo Booth, I can finally have my go [at] winning him over.” (Daniela Zahlner)

by Ryan Murray (USA, digital video, color, sound, 2013, 3:29)
“Every Feature Film On My Hard Drive, 3 Pixels Tall and Sped Up 7000% is comprised of 240 Hollywood movies running simultaneously, squeezed into a single frame and a 3.5 minute runtime. This work highlights the mass amount of media that we have at our fingertips and creates an abstraction of the color and duration of cinema.” (Ryan Murray)

by Tony Gault (US, 16mm transferred to digital video, color, sound, 2015, 09:00)
“Rotoscope animation reshapes a found film into an examination of ‘the vague, indefinite fears which keep growing in our minds.’” (Tony Gault)

by Kevin McCarthy (US, digital video, color, sound, 2016, 6:30)
“When the second teaser for THE FORCE AWAKENS comes out, a STAR WARS agnostic tries in vain to embrace the zeitgeist, joining superfans to create his own lukewarm trailer reaction video mashup.” (Kevin McCarthy)

by Yunjin Woo (USA, 16mm/found footage transferred to digital video, color, sound, 2015, 05:11)
“Sneeze explores the stigmatized symptom of common cold—the involuntary expulsion of air and bodily fluid—as an allegory of social ruptures that might mediate infectious resistance. Mixing the Cold War era’s educational film footage promoting personal hygiene as a ‘war against germs’ with images of explosive creation, this film aesthetically subverts the uniquely modern fantasy of separation and isolation of the ‘healthy’ from the ‘ill’.” (Yunjin Woo)

by Adrian Flury 
(Switzerland, digital video, color, sound, 2015, 04:40)
“By sourcing multiple digital images of the same place from different archives, this experiment in film makes use of frame by frame montage to discover hidden forms, patterns and references, thereby giving new meaning to the prevailing redundancy of these pictures.” (Adrian Flury)

by Roger Beebe (US, 16mm transferred to digital video, color, sound, 2014, 04:25)
“Three perfect fragments, presented exactly as found.” (Roger Beebe)

by Benjamin Verhoeven (Belgium, digital video, color, sound, 2014, 06:11)
“Part of an ongoing project called Scanning Cinema [that consists] of scanning moving images by using a flatbed scanner and a monitor and putting them back into an animated film. The inversions [produced by this] method (the physical action of scanning) [generate] a new language like a disturbed echo from the photographic reviving of moving images. […] The fragments … used [here] are a re-montage of Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Up, [while] the original soundtrack of Herbie Hancock has undergone the same process as the images. The movie consists of 10,000 scans put together in a stop-motion film.” (Benjamin Verhoeven)

by Guli Silberstein (Israel/Palestine, digital video, color, sound, 2014, 04:19)
“A radiant, energetic girl is shouting and punching the empty space in front of her. She is roughly cut out from her surroundings by a computer algorithm struggling to contain her. Her enemies are rubbed off the frame, sound is removed and music added, emphasising her anguish and anger. Is she real? Is she a dream? Gradually, more fragments of the scene are revealed, and the context is made clearer. The video-processing highlights the documented scene as image, both of a fight for freedom, and a media event.” (Guli Silberstein)

by Ricardo Salvador (Spain, Super-16mm transferred to digital video, b/w & color, sound, 2016, 09:40)
In 1965, the compendium of an earthly life devoted to scientific research was found in Kresty prison of Leningrad, encrypted in twelve vinyl records printed with stroboscopic images and hypnotic sounds, labeled with the name “HK320.” Ektoplasmic Vision tells the story of Dr. Joseph H. Stanislaw, a mad scientist of dubious provenance, who claimed to be a Nephilim (half human half demon). During his earthly passage (1888-1944), Dr Stanislaw investigated the human mental projection, and designed his own devices to print and reproduce on “Ektoplasmic film” the images created by the spheres of mind. Ectoplasmik Vision is the documentary promotion along with the official trailer for Hermetica Komhata HK320, a retro Sci-fi film, 90 minutes long, recently produced by Hermética Films.” (Ricardo Salvador)

by LJ Frezza (USA, digital video, color, sound, 2015, 06:40)
“A survey of the utopias featured in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-1994). Some of the structures that constrain and produce our understanding of possible futures.” (LJ Frezza)

by Tasman Richardson (Canada, digital video, b/w & color, sound, 2016, 14:25)
“Imperfect reflections, simulations, and recordings, sampled from cinema, vhs, and finally total signal failure. Originally performed live as a dual, parallel projection (mirrored). All sounds are from the source clips. harmonies and rhythms are achieved with complex combinations of temporal warping and editing of the video source.” (Tasman Richardson)

Lauren S. Berliner is an Assistant Professor of Media & Communication and Cultural Studies at University of Washington Bothell. Her research focuses on participatory media production practices, gender and sexuality, and pedagogy. Also a filmmaker, she has screened her work internationally and has facilitated video production programming for girls and queer youth. She earned her PhD. in Communication from UC San Diego, an MA in Visual and Media Art from Emerson College, and a BA in English and Anthropology from Wesleyan University.

Roger Beebe is a filmmaker whose work since 2006 consists primarily of multiple projector performances that explore the world of found images and the “found” landscapes of late capitalism. He has screened his films at such unlikely venues as the CBS Jumbotron in Times Square and McMurdo Station in Antarctica as well as more likely ones including Sundance, the Museum of Modern Art,  Anthology Film Archives and Los Angeles Filmforum. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Art at the Ohio State University.

Tony Gault is working on a film about language and how it affects our perception of reality.

Tina Takemoto’s experimental films explore hidden dimensions of same-sex intimacy in Asian American history. Takemoto has exhibited widely and received grants from Art Matters, ArtPlace, Fleishhacker Foundation, Lucas Artists Program, and San Francisco Arts Commission. Takemoto was awarded Grand Jury Prize for Best Experimental Film at Slamdance and Best Experimental Film Jury Award at AGLIFF. Screenings include Ann Arbor, Anthology Film Archive, BFI Flare, CAAMfest, Outfest, Queer Forever! (Hanoi), and Xposed Queer Film Festival (Berlin).

Yunjin La-mei Woo is a socially-engaged artist and a cultural-studies researcher. Born as the granddaughter of a Korean shaman, her artistic practice is informed by her research on how the notion of humanness intersects with issues of power, gender, class, and ethnicity. In particular, Woo is interested in contagion as a metaphor to counteract the dominant discourses of exclusive humanness. Her creative work ranges widely from installation to video, performance, sculpture, writing, and participatory projects. Woo has exhibited, published, and presented her creative work and research in various venues both internationally and nationally. She earned her BFA and MFA from Seoul National University, South Korea, and is currently working on her PhD dissertation in Communication and Culture at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA. Concurrently, Woo teaches interdisciplinary practice as an Assistant Professor in Art at Metropolitan State University of Denver.

Deborah Kelly‘s works have been shown around Australia, and in the biennials of Singapore, Sydney, Thessaloniki, TarraWarra, Cementa and Venice. Her projects across media are concerned with lineages of representation and practices of collectivity from intimate to epic. Kelly’s work has been exhibited at the MCA and the AGNSW in Sydney, MOMA PS1 in NYC, the ICA in London, the Hammer Museum in LA and the Pera Museum in Istanbul. In December 2019 she participated in the Fotogenia Festival in Mexico City (and won the festival prize) and was the first international artist in residence at the Wellcome Trust in London.