LoVid
Live performance, USA, 25mins

A live performance by LoVid (Kyle Lapidus and Tali Hinkis) using their wearable audiovisual synthesizers to process and manipulate electrical signals, creating bold and pure inter-relations of image and sound.

http://www.lovid.org

Ivalo River Delta
Patrick Beveridge, UK, 16mm, 2007, 17mins, colour, silent

The title of this film refers to the landscape where it was shot – an open marshland in northernmost Finland. This terrain, which is covered in thick snow during the winter months, provided a surface for filming changes in nocturnal light that are in response to the movement and position of the moon, and the sporadic displays of the polar lights. Such a project inadvertently raises the problem of landscape film as a genre in its own right. However, the film also has elements of astronomical and atmospheric photography. In particular, some experiments using film cameras placed on rotating celestial mounts lead to the unpredicted outcome of both the earth and the sky staying in focus with prolonged exposure for each frame.

Britton, South Dakota
Vanessa Renwick, USA, Video, 2003, 9mins, b/w, silent

Britton, South Dakota is of course the greatest of films, one of the few to get to the core of human matters and then stay there for a bit without turning away.
– Jem Cohen

_grau
Robert Seidel, Germany, Video, 2004, 10mins, colour, sound

_grau is a personal reflection on memories coming up during a car accident, where past events emerge, fuse, erode and finally vanish ethereally ... various real sources where distorted, filtered and fitted into a sculptural structure to create not a plain abstract, but a very private snapshot of a whole life within its last seconds...
— Robert Seidel

Black and White Trypps Number 3
Ben Russell, USA, 2007, 16mm, 12mins, colour, sound

The soundstorm of Lightning Bolt and third ear music of Joseph Grimm creates a trance inducing sonic Pentecost as initiates writhe and foam in ascent.

Dove Coup
Ben Rivers, UK, 2007, Video, 2mins, b/w, silent

Caged doves kept behind a hotel in Rotterdam were filmed, then printed using a torch, whereupon they attempt to break free from the frames of the film.

Mind Over Matter
Nate Boyce, USA, 2006, video, 4mins, colour, sound

Nate Boyce’s lo-fi computer video Mind over Matter begins in a small room with a brain floating near a sword. Each time the sword touches the brain, the video fizzes and crackles with bursts of colour and a relentless hash of static. The metaphors begin to pile up as sword and brain merge in a swirling cacophony of psychedelic explosions, but the overriding analogy is that of pure creation: if the Big Bang began like this, it would not be surprising. — Jeffrey Ryan