Extremely Shorts 11:
Works 3 Minutes and Under
Saturday, June 28, 6PM and 8PM
Sunday, June 29, 5PM
Sunday, June 29, 6-9PM Celebration Picnic
Juror Ed Halter in Attendance
Aurora's most popular annual event returns with the 11th installment of juried short shorts submitted from around the globe. Veteran juror and avant-garde film/video guru, Ed Halter, will be in attendance to celebrate 10 continuous years of earth-shaking programming at Aurora. Enjoy karaoke and good food by moon-light on the final night of the festival.
Special thanks to T'afia, Saint Arnold Brewing Company, Studio Martinez and Cakes by Macauley for their generous support of this event.
New-york based writer and media programmer Ed Halter is a film critic for The Village Voice and a frequent contributor to other publications, including Arthur, The Believer and Filmmaker. Former director of the New York Underground Film Festival, he has curated events at the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and is currently a visiting professor in the Department of Film and Electronic Arts at Bard College.
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Works to be shown include:
Zero (Anabela Costa -Portugal) - Minimal emptiness
Mermaid Dreams (Camilo Gonzalez - Houston) - A Russian expatriate talks about her experience in the states and how her dreams shifted and transformed.
I’d Rather Have a Puppy (Sarah Grass - Houston) - Stop-motion birth of a dachshund puppy from a human vagina. (plaster, plastilina, acrylic, paint, and fabric)
Untitled (Goat) (Allison Hunter - Houston) - Set in a post-apocalyptic landscape, a petting zoo goat morphs into a scene while an ominous presence off camera passes nearby.
My Dixie Darling (Chris Kennedy - San Francisco), A cowboy in my hand
I Look Forward To It (Ellen Lake - Oakland), A short conversation between two people sharing the screen, yet situated seven decades apart
Let's Not Keep Score (Ellen Lake - Oakland), Combining black and white 16 mm film from 1941 and cell phone video, Betty and Josh hit tennis balls back and forth across the screen and across time
Rough Days/Green Thumbs (Jessica Leza - Humble), Created from over 200 images, this short demonstrates the tragic beauty of transformation
Girl U Want (Kirt Markle & Rosebud Pettet - NYC), Animation: naughty girls act up!
Ceibas; the Unseeable Exchange of out Parts (Evan Meaney - Iowa), Using a process which destabilized digital video, this work approximates a space of transition, linked to the impossibility of some forms of representation
The Cruel Month (Joe Merrel - LA), Springtime in the park. The piece is comprised of video frames arranged as a procession in 3-dimensional space. It is part of a larger work (*3D glasses provided)
Untitled 2 (Fernando Morillo - Brooklyn), Dismembering my body into three parts results in a choreography of sorts.
The Toaster (Ian Price – Houston, age 13), An unnamed protagonist finds a toaster in a barren indoor dreamscape.
Astrowhirled (David Purdie - Houston), Dream sequence involving houston’s former landmark amusement park- astroworld
Lola (Mike Rollo - Quebec), Through eyes of pure content in light and darkness, to objects strange and shifting, a cat’s curiosity to all things moving.
Rise (Ann Steuernagel - Cambridge, MA), A video loop composed from found 16mm footage. It is at once a reference to a celestial event, cascading film frames and the erotic interaction between two young men.
Outlaw (Ann Steuernagel - Cambridge, MA), A “recycled” cowboy drama from the silent era.
Chiquita Gordita (Stephanis Saint Sanchez - Houston), Big Girl Icons living la vida loca
May 1 (Jenny Stark - Sacramento), Manny Gale, a retired professor of 42 years talks about becoming a documentary filmmaker at the age of 82.
Who I’ll Be (Brandon van Meter - Sacramento), The filmmaker’s cousin describes his desire to join the marines (and impending deployment) in unexpected ways.
Nook and Cranny (Francien van Everdingen - The Netherlands), A film from the point of view of a large green carpet.
Moving Landscape 05 (Verena Resche - Austria), A park. An urban scene. The progression of the film gradually merges and mixes the two, creating a single image.
Red Nitro (Christoph Weihrich), Lots of found footage, sound and other stuff in this fleeting red gesture (an homage to Norman McLaren’s Loops).
Lietuvos Bankas (Barbara Musil - Austria), In this short, elements from Lithuanian banknotes become independent and tell their short but dramatic story.
paths of g (Dietmar Offenhuber - Austria), A variation on Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory: A long travelling shot of a WWI trench is reduced to it's essentials, the path of the camera and the geometrical relations of the set.
3 Minutes (Christoph Brunner - Austria), an experiment in cinematic time compression by Austrian artist Christoph Brunner, documents the look and feel of a train platform in Passau, Germany, on three separate occasions for a duration of four hours each.
The Magic Top (Joost van Veen - Netherlands), Film about the colored inner life of an exceptional spinning top.