| NOCTURNES curated by TODD EACRETT & DEBORAH DE BOER presented by Antimatter Festival of Underground Short Films & Videos [ Victoria, Canada ] Boogyman Dir: Brian Joseph Davis/video/2002/Can/4:30 Two children communicate with Satan using their Lite Brite. Boogyman skewers superstitious fears by using adult actors to mime the everyday behaviour of normal children to recreate the visual conventions and effects of horror films like The Exorcist. Argent Liquide (Cash Flow) Dir: Shaun Andrews/16mm/2002/Can/11:08 Argent Liquide is a darkly comic, expressionistic journey into the inner psychological workings of you and your local automated teller. Through deft use of irony and metaphor, the film raises timely questions about money, technology and surveillance within a highly commercialized society while exploring the sadomasochistic and narcoticizing relationship we form with money and the system it represents. Nocturne Dir: Jay Johnson/video/2001/Can/7:15 Inspired by The Wax Dolls of Lotte Pritzel by Rilke, Nocturne recounts a melancholic tale of magic and metaphor as seen through the eyes of a small androgynous doll. Resolving Power Dir: Fran�ois Miron/35mm on video/2001/Can/18:00 "A dreamy and beautifully shot film that entrances the audience with its atmospheric sound design (by Helios Creed, Peter Namlook, Jason Martz) and stream of consciousness images. Starring Montreal comic Rick Trembles, who also provides animated vignettes, and marking a more live-action turn for experimental film staple Francois Miron, Resolving Power is a film about obsession, and the love for electricity and celluloid." - Karim Hussain, Fantasia Film Festival Angor Dir: Jason Arsenault/video/2002/Can/3:40 Set in the abandoned shower rooms of an old Montreal pool, Angor conveys a powerful sense of alienation, anxiety and incipient menace. L�stmord Dir: Gwynne Fulton/16mm/2002/Can/10:50 An experimental psycho-horror film about a deranged hospital chambermaid's nightmarish vision of her repressed fantasies. Shot in black and white and optically printed on colour stock, L�stmord is a carnival of the perverse where sexual paranoia triggers fears of infection and sickness as punishment for moral and sexual transgression. Le Viaduc d'Or Dir: Clark Nikolai/video/2002/Can/3:42 By day, a dumpster diver finds a mannequin to love, a harassed woman puts on a male disguise and a drug-addicted hustler scores. By night, their diurnal lives are forgotten when they become whoever they want to be, online. House Dir: Brian Joseph Davis/video/2003/Can/18:00 An extraordinary filmic implosion of Poe's Fall of the House of Usher, set in a Canadian suburban nowhere. |
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