THANK YOU FILMMAKERS AND TO EVERYONE THAT CAME.
FLICKER WAS ANOTHER SUCCESS.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2011
MAGIC LANTERN THEATRE
25 W. Main Ave • Spokane
THREE SHOWS - 2PM, 6PM AND 10PM
Cost - $7

THE FILMS
CONGRATULATIONS FILMMAKERS

2pm show

Let Me Try To Explain John Cannizzaro - Tarzana, California, USA
2 min 30 sec Original Format Super 8
Made for Los Angeles ‘Flicker’s “Attack of the 50 Foot Reels” (1 roll of super 8 movie film, edited in camera, sound made without seeing image) - An attempt by an experimental filmmaker to explain what he does and why.

An Anatomy Of Memory Jessica Oreck - New York, NY, USA
13 min Original Format Super 8
Memory is not a thing. It has no mass and occupies no space. But if the average human memory, accumulated through one lifetime is made up of 280 quintillion bits of information, then there must be some mode of organization, some unit of storage, something that allows us to maintain it, to carry it, treasure it, horde it. Using 8mm footage shot of one family during the 40s and 50s, this short film is a poetic meditation on, not only the science behind the mechanisms of memory, but the implications of such on an individual’s identity. Using physics as a philosophy, this film addresses questions of the self through the effects of time and space. “An Anatomy of Memory” challenges our ideas of evolution and humanity - and does not bother to disguise the vastness of death. Her feature length film, Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo screen at the 2010 Spokane international film festival.

Secret Love Pixie Cram - Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
3 min 7 sec Original Format 16mm
A series of line drawings of a woman are inter-cut with Japanese-inspired landscapes and textbook diagrams of electromagnetic waveforms, over which are animated organic materials such as star anise, lavender, poppy seeds, and cranberries.

Flathead Reliability Run 2010
Derrick King/Lonny Waddle/Kevin Mileson
Spokane, Washington, USA 3 Min 32 sec
Original Format Super 8 & 16mm
A short film about the first annual Flathead Reliability Run. An event where people from the east and west side of the state drive their flathead engine vehicles to meet in Vantage, WA.

To Any Reader: On Correspondence Chris Hefner
Chicago, Illinois, USA - 6 min 19 sec Original Format Super 8
This film is composed of material generated from the first year of a correspondence project initiated by the filmmaker in which he selected four recipients and sent them a package containing a short film made just for them, a questionnaire, return postage, instructions and a pencil. The material gleaned from the first round of responses generated a second round of films that were, in turn, sent to four new correspondents along with similar materials. This first cycle, taking almost exactly a year, generated a wealth of material which Hefner has utilized to create the film we see here. In so doing, Hefner comments upon the nature of correspondence itself, viewing it as an ephemeral network of associative moments, materials, expressions and remembrances.

Pulpwood Anders Vicorero Rey - Corunna, Spain
4 min 10 sec Original Format Super 8
Experimental documentary about pulpwood and the impact of the paper industries

Who Would Have Guessed? Emmaalouise Smith - London, England
6 min Original Format Super 8
Shot late in 2010 on Super 8mm film, accompanied by a near-autobiographical narrative, describing memories of growing up, high-school mischief and best-friend nostalgia.

Beacons Of Light: New York Illuminated Heather Rose Dominic
New York, NY, USA 3 min Original Format Super 8
Beacons of Light: New York Illuminated is a short film by Heather Rose Dominic that captures over 80 illuminated locations across the five boroughs of New York city. Filmed over 88 days, every frame was shot only within the 20 minutes of available light before sunrise or nightfall commonly referred to as “magic hour.” The film is accompanied by Johnny Cash’s iconic love song, “I walk the Line.”

The Story Of Thomas Edison Aaron Zeghers
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
4 min 38 sec Original Format 16mm
A film about the childhood heroes you so admired and now don’t speak to. Optically printed onto 16mm, the story of Thomas Edison is a melange of recorded audio bites that forms a libelous biography of the famous inventor.

Docteur CHERIGIE Rick Pukis
Augusta, Georgia/Spokane, Washington, USA
3 min Original Format 16mm
Go back to 1963 Paris and observe the diagnosis of the subterranean depths of Monsieur Marcel by Docteur CHÉRIGIÉ.

Turn Baby Turn Dagie Brundert - Berlin, Germany
2 min 12 sec Original Format Super 8
Sometimes it makes sense to take a new position in your own four walls, lay down on the ground & watch the world from down there. Because a change of perspectives provides your own image world more density. It’s also quite cool to pick up elements from foreign or even adversary worlds like for example dirndls.
Bavarian garment stands for traditional … squareness. But if I wear a dirndl the opposite emerges. I don’t think I have to explain, it’s punking by itself.
Unusual combinations increase the connections of the synapses & thus boost the brain’s activity, the cogitation, imaginativeness & joy for well-tended crazyness.

The Ephemeral Village Allen Brown - Montreal, Quebec, Canada
8 min 10 sec Original format Super 8
An ice fishing village emerges for a few weeks during the winter months. Each year, its existence becomes less and less certain. A short meditative exploration of the tension between our sense of place and the changing environment. www.volatileworks.org

Future Anterior Muriel Montini - Paris, France
6 min original Format Super 8
A woman emerges from the shadows in slow motion. While approaching ,we hear echoes of story . It might seem insignificant, but it’s the sort of stories that haunts your thoughts for the rest of your life.

Focus Christine Lucy Latimer - Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1 min 15 sec Original Format Super 8
Using glue and 16mm splicing tape, I place over 1500 individual super 8 film frames from a decimated home movie one-by-one on to clear 16mm film. The resulting floating film-within-a-film becomes a jarring landscape that prioritizes the structure of the super 8 frame over its photographic contents. (Commissioned by the Toronto Animated Image Society and Gallery 44 Center for Contemporary Photography).

The Exchange Luke Campbell - Austin, Texas, USA
5 min original Format Super 8
A young person persuades his two friends to join him on a camping trip in hopes of confirming an unusual story of friendship, alien life and an otherworldly interest in the expansion of the mind.

Rainy Day Anders Vicorero Rey - Corunna, Spain
2 min 50 sec Original Format Super 8
Experimental documentary shot on super 8.

For Plus X Paulo Abreu - Lisbon, Portugal
2 min 45 sec Original Format Super 8
Memories of youth. Homage to the super 8 film Plus X, that was extinct by Kodak in 2010

Untitled (Religion) Matt Starr - Maplewood, New Jersey, USA
3 min Original Format 16mm
This experimental film is presented in tableaux style and is a poetic vignette of an individual who deals with eternal struggle and unceasing contemplation, all while being consumed by the burdens of conditioned humanization.
After the footage was processed, I discovered half of the footage was shot with light leakage, which is what caused the blurred and bleeding effect. However, I recognized an affinity between the dream-like footage and what was originally shot. The effect adds a certain whimsical feel to the film.

The Luminous Passage Ryan Marino - Brooklyn, NY, USA
6 min Original Format 16mm
A meditation on the passage of tie and light, an evocation of the season of autumn. This film was shot during consecutive autumns in New York, Main and New Hampshire.

Four Cubic Feet Of Space Tony Gault -
Glenwood Springs, Colorado, USA
8 min Original Format Super 8
Artist Daniel Sprick ruminates on the fragile nature of human existence.

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6pm show

Innocence Szilard Szarvas - Angyalföld, Budapest, Hungary
5 min 48 sec Original Format Super 8
taken from the first dj bootsie album - the silent partner 2004

Against Cinema Alberto Cabrera Bernal - Madrid, Spain
9 min 15 sec Original Format Super 8 & 16MM
As I was going over the material I was buying, fiction films and documentaries, both in Super 8 and in 16 mm, I began to select the images based on a single theme -actors who were always facing backwards to the camera. Then I edited that footage without the slightest narrative development. The only explanation I can give for my decision to recount these specific moments is the unseen signifying power which resides in them, their violent magnetism.

Flathead Reliability Run 2010
Derrick King/Lonny Waddle/Kevin Mileson
Spokane, Washington, USA 3 Min 32 sec
Original Format Super 8 & 16mm
A short film about the first annual Flathead Reliability Run. An event where people from the east and west side of the state drive their flathead engine vehicles to meet in Vantage, WA.

Truck In Water Deron Williams - Carbondale, Illinois, USA
4 min 10 sec Original Format Super 8
I went to Grand Isle, Louisiana for two days in 2010 while BP’s deep water horizon well was pluming oil into the Gulf of Mexico. There, I became a pedestrian spectator and observer of a shuttered vacation town occupied mostly by military & public relations officers. I struggled to find some easy, closed narrative about the catastrophe, but failed. What emerges instead is a symbolic meditation about our relationship to oblivion, the impassivity of nature & the inadequacy of our media to explain catastrophic experiences.

187 Days Until X-Mas Deniz Berkin - Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
6 min 30 sec Original Format Super 8
The story of a lonely prostitute and a Santa Claus who can’t stay away from the egg nog.

Ambidextrous Acrobats Chris Hefner - Chicago, Illinois, USA
3 min 15 sec Original Format Super 8
Constructed from footage shot for Hefner’s feature-length film “The Pink Hotel”, this film presents an arrangement of an aerial routine by Chicago performers the Ambidextrous Acrobats. Rather than offering a more linear representation of their act, their movements have been fragmented and rearranged into a suspended cinematic dance in which the rhythms of the material upon which the images were shot correspond with the music as much as the movements of the bodies they reproduce. Similarly, the soundtrack, “Anna9” by Daniel Knox, utilizes the language of its recording device (a handheld tape recorder) to further underscore the dance between lyricism and the realities of decay. www.theoperatedeye.com

A Night In The Life Of Doris Dolores Bob Moricz
Portland, Oregon, USA 14 min Original Format Super 8
Rick practices his sock puppet ventriloquist act while wily party girl Doris runs through the night seeking satisfaction absent in a relationship of polar opposites. She drinks beer and goes dancing. He stays home reading Japanese death poems.
Bob Moricz will be in attendance.

Fruit Flies Christine Lucy Latimer - Toronto, Onterio, Canada
1 min 23 sec Original Format 16mm
This film seals under perforated 16mm splicing tape all of the fruit flies that drowned in the vinegar trap on my kitchen counter last summer.

Live Before You Die Tom Lloyd - United Kingdom
5 min 51 sec Original Format Super 8
Travelling the length of the country and back again with a pair of horses and gypsy caravan, Live Before You Die is the ultimate horse-drawn road movie, following a band of Travellers with handcarts, goats, donkeys and ponies along green lanes to the fairs and festivals of England.
Shot entirely on a hand-cranked clockwork Russian super 8mm camera during a 9 month journey, the footage remained unviewed for 13 years until seeing the light of day in 2008.

Docteur CHERIGIE Rick Pukis
Augusta, Georgia/Spokane, Washington, USA
3 min Original Format 16mm
Go back to 1963 Paris and observe the diagnosis of the subterranean depths of Monsieur Marcel by Docteur CHÉRIGIÉ.
Fe Eric Stewart - Oakland, California, USA
3 min Original Format 16mm
The ebb and flow of iron filing on magnetic plane

Nightlight Dagie Brundert - Berlin, Germany
2 min 22 sec Original Format Super 8
Berlin lights in time-speed-machine; the gelatine layer of the film stained red.

Secret Life Reynold Reynolds - Berlin, Germany
10 min 26 sec Original Format 16mm and stills
Secret Life is the first of the Secrets Trilogy; a cycle exploring the imperceptible conditions that frame life and is followed by Secret Machine (2009) and Six Easy Pieces (2010)

Secret Life portrays a woman trapped in an apartment with a life of its own. Transcending the narrative horizons of human desire, the film visits upon us a glimpse of a shared and sacred reality. A work that defies the ultimate metaphysical taboos of temporality by combining novel technique with intrepid philosophical vision; and daring to present that which is seldom, if ever, portrayed in any artistic medium.
Impossibilities are made possible through Reynolds’ signature aesthetic, a lens that can fill one with reverence for the mundane.
Have you ever wondered what time sees, experiences? Without mortal assumptions about time, the occupant of the apartment is no longer limited even to unique location, but here, seen through the eye of time, space itself is now become alive. Without the context of space and time, the woman’s mind collapses and neglects the organization of her experience, leaving her only with sensations. The viewer may ask: Is it her mind or is it time itself that creates the uncontrolled and uncontrollable environment? The work suggests that all living things are endowed with consciousness, meaning all living things have awareness. While the space increases in its activity, the woman becomes an ever more passive element in her world. She moves at a mechanical speed and her mind is like a clock whose hands pin the events of her life to the tapestry of time, all the while, the truth is transcendentally reflected in the mechanical eye of the camera. Her thoughts escape her and come to life, growing like the plants that inhabit the space around her: living, searching, feeling, breathing and dying.

Secret Machine Reynold Reynolds - Berlin, Germany
14 min Original Format 16mm and stills
Secret Machine is the second of the Secrets Trilogy; a cycle exploring the imperceptible conditions that frame life and is preceded by Secret Life (2008) & followed by Six Easy Pieces (2010)

In Secret Machine, a protagonist encounters an antagonist that is studying her, measuring her body and comparing her to units of space and time. Clocks rush & her movements are calculated on a grid: the eye is observed augmented through lenses; under water her breath is submitted to a resistance rate; needles are used to quantify her reactions and pain: & storing machines capture voice & motion. For the scientist measurement is understanding. While human nature appears confined in the framework and efforts of rationality, the aspiration of trapping the soul conduce the antagonist to imagine the improbable. At the operation table she opens a small vivisection in the patient’s body. With a flower stigma she proceeds to pollinate her, giving to nectar & blood the same flow.

Six Easy Pieces Reynold Reynolds - Berlin, Germany
10 min 40 sec Original Format 16mm and stills
Six Easy Pieces is the last part of the Secrets Trilogy; a three-part cycle exploring the imperceptible conditions that frame life and is preceded by Secret Life, 2008 and Secret Machine, 2009.

The work is based on the book “Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of physics explained by its most brilliant teacher”. By Richard P. Feynman

“Film is the Seventh Art, a superb conciliation of the Rhythms of Space (the Plastic Arts) and the Rhythms of Time (music, poetry and dance), a synthesis of the ancient arts: architecture, sculpture, painting, music, poetry and dance.”
-Ricciotto Canudo

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10pm show

Prometheus In Five Directions Pixie Cram - Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
15 min Original Format 16mm
A version of the Frankenstein myth with a cybernetic spin. The film contains stop-animation puppetry sequences blended with live action.

I See The Sea And The Sea Sees Me
Dagie Brundert - Berlin, Germany
1 min 45 sec Original Format Double Super 8 • b/w • Double exposed
why do boys always throw stones into the sea? Coping with infinity

Ghost Beach Ian Sundahl - Portland, Oregon, USA
4 min Original Format 16mm
“Ghost Beach” is a travelogue of the streets and signage of the adult business area of North Beach in San Francisco, CA as shot in 2009. Presented in “Dualvision”.

The Three Organizations of L.R. Levato
Chris Hefner - Chicago, Illinois, USA
4 min 21 sec Original Format Super 8
Here is a film I made a couple of years ago which is the result of a collaboration with poet Dave Snyder based upon the collections of Lauren Levato, recited by Megan Larmer atop music by Tommy Jansen. Dave, Megan and I met several times for dinner to discuss the nature of organization, collecting and the workings of everyday fetishism. Using Lauren’s collections as a jumping-off point, I went for dinner at her house, after which she displayed and I filmed various specimens from her collections of Insects, Dress Shoes and Orchid Plants. Another dinner with Dave Snyder was followed by a viewing of this footage and further discussion. A week or so later Megan and Dave came back over for yet another dinner after which we recorded Megan reading the poetic narration Dave had created in the space between our previous dinner and the one we had just finished. I, then, after dinner on my own one night, took Megan’s recitation of Dave’s poem and built this film around them both, using music by Tommy Jansen (with whom I hope to one day have dinner) as a foundation. After a few years and several dinners, Lauren proposed the idea of including this film in her new solo exhibition, entitled “Lantern Fly Sex Cure”, which opens Friday June 24th at Tony Fitzpatrick’s Firecat Projects here in Chicago, U.S.A. Visitors to the exhibition will be directed via download card to this site and are invited (as are you) to download this film to include in your own collection, to watch anytime you like, preferably after a nice dinner.

Apparition Of Things Past Tony Gault
Glenwood Springs, Colorado, USA
2 min Original Format Super 8 & 16mm
Apparition of Things Past is the first in a series of films to explore our collective abandonment of analog imagery. My process incorporates both analog and digital processes. I first optically print selected shots to 16mm film, blowing up the originals to isolate lyrical moments, movement, shadow, gesture, grain. Then, using After Effects software, I remove the background image, frame by frame, further isolating the positive space.

The Midnight Pen-Pal Emmaalouise Smith
London, England, United Kingdom
10 min Original Format Super 8/PX Instant Film
The Midnight Pen-Pal is a film based on a short poem written in the summer of 2008 whilst living at a factory warehouse in Leytonstone, London. The Midnight Pen-Pal isn’t afraid to break the rules of film-making, you may see a ‘hair-in-the-gate’, an off-centred frame of telecine or an exposed raw piece of film stock.

Flathead Reliability Run 2010
Derrick King/Lonny Waddle/Kevin Mileson
Spokane, Washington, USA 3 Min 32 sec
Original Format Super 8 & 16mm
A short film about the first annual Flathead Reliability Run. An event where people from the east and west side of the state drive their flathead engine vehicles to meet in Vantage, WA.

Sun Moon Stars Rain Leslie Supnet - Winnipeg, Manitoba , Canada
3 min 20 sec Original Format Super 8
A psychedelic visual elegy, lamenting the death of Mother Nature’s children.

Nosferatu On A Off Night Deniz Berkin - Ottawa Ontario, Canada
3 min Original Format Super 8
Even the Prince of Darkness needs the occasional Mental health day.

Night In June Chris Hefner - Chicago, Illinois, USA
2 min 53 sec Original Format Super 8
Made for the International Pancake Film Festival 2010.

Le Monde Est Immense (The World Is Vast)
Muriel Montini - Paris, france 9 min Original Format Super 8
A summer’s day in the countryside. A woman is sewing. A little girl tries to attract her attention. A boy appears ; A few images from a super 8 movie explored in detail & recomposed with a dramatic end in mind.

STRATA Eric Stewart - Oakland, California, USA
5 min 30 sec Original Format 16mm
The cosmic moving through the terrestrial. Crystalline forms pared against the cosmos; grasses, teeth and roots. A meditation on the once expansive Prairie and our embodied connection to land.

Chaos Theory Aaron Zeghers - Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
3 min 20 sec Original Format Super 8
An exploration of the socialization and evolution of mankind and the chaos that we’re thrown into at birth. cineflyer.wordpress.com

Autophobia Paulo Abreu - Lisbon, Portugal
4 min 30 sec Original Format Super 8
Autophobia is a mental illness, that causes fear from being alone.

Docteur CHERIGIE Rick Pukis
Augusta, Georgia/Spokane, Washington, USA
3 min Original Format 16mm
Go back to 1963 Paris and observe the diagnosis of the subterranean depths of Monsieur Marcel by Docteur CHÉRIGIÉ.

Urban Green Kathleen Rugh - Brooklyn, NY, USA
8 min Original Format 16mm
Woven within brick, metal, traffic, and people there exists an oasis of the natural both indoors and out.

Asylum Stephen Kaiser-Pendergrast
Stockholmn, New Jersey, USA
3 min 20 sec Original Format 16mm
A patient in a dark asylum receives a strange visitor.

Kuna Ni Nanang (My Mother Said) Jessica Sison
San Francisco, California, USA
4 min 50 sec Original Format Super 8
In this day and age, when everything is documented and even cell phones have cameras, one woman has no souvenirs or photos of her beloved mother. Meet Elena Bautista, 99 years… YOUNG.

Die Schneider Krankheit Javier Chillon - Madrid, Spain
10 min Original Format Super 8
The Fifties, a Soviet space shuttle crashes in West Germany. The only passenger, a cosmonaut chimpanzee, spreads a deadly virus all over the country...