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Technology inspires artists to create spaces of limitless possibility. This program explores the impact of diverse filmmaking technologies in shaping new territories of the imagination to create environments that are as much imagined as they are real.
TERROR NULLIUS
Directed by Soda_Jerk
Binding together a documentary impulse with the bent plotlines of Australian films, Soda_Jerk’s revisionist history opens a willful narrative space where cinema fictions and historical facts permeate each other in new ways. The apocalyptic desert camps of Mad Max 2 become the site of refugee detention, flesh-eating sheep are recast as anticolonial insurgents, and a feminist motorcycle gang goes vigilante on Mel Gibson. 2018, digital, 55 min.
Instruction on How to Make a Film
Directed by Nazlı Dinçel
Shot at the Film Farm in Mount Forest, Ontario, this comedy is a quest about performance, educational voiceover, analogue filmmaking, ASCII, language, ethics of ethnography, and narrative storytelling under a metaphor of instructions to farm land. Text by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and the wikiHow on making film. 2018, 16mm, 13 min.
Descent
Directed by Peter Burr
Looking back at the historical trajectory of Flemish artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s The Triumph of Death (c. 1562) and the bubonic plague that struck Europe 200 years before the painting, Burr created a spiraling digital virus. The desktop application descent.exe gives the user a brief glimpse of a world descending into darkness—an unrelenting plague indifferent to the struggles of the user. 2017, digital, 7 min.
Big Agnes Ascent
Directed by Kevin Obsatz
“Any film, however ordinary, is infinitely complex.” —Raúl Ruiz, Poetics of Cinema. A celluloid lover’s imagined trip to the mountains. 2015, 16mm, 4 min.
