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GALAXIAN (curated-shorts) - Chicago Underground Film Festival
GALAXIAN Curated by Rebecca Meyers
A popular arcade game of the early 1980s, Galaxian connoted the luminous vastness of outer space as well as the accompanying danger of alien worlds. Each film and video in this program embraces the mediated otherness of video game source material, from Tomb Raider to World of Warcraft, to create ominous realms fraught with human frailty, death, and anxiety, charged by questions of identity, spirituality, and the struggle to make sense of it all. Avatars float, shift, and tremble in unnervingly desolate and preternatural videoscapes as artists redesign digital code and re-appropriate lo-fi gaming imagery, demonstrating the artistic potential for the emerging genre of machinima (where movies are created using video game technologies). Starting with a pair of haunting videos generated from Grand Theft Auto, the program builds in uncertainty and terror but ends with TOTAL POWER DEAD DEAD DEADS moving call for intimacy and hope.
REHEARSALS FOR RETIREMENT Phil Solomon Video 11:00 2007
REHEARSALS FOR RETIREMENT is the third part of THE SAN ANDREAS TRILOGY, dedicated to the memory of Mark Lapore: UNTITLED (FOR DAVID GATTEN), FAULTLINE, REHEARSALS FOR RETIREMENT.
The days grow longer for smaller prizes I feel a stranger to all surprises You can have them I don't want them I wear a different kind of garment In my rehearsals for retirement
The lights are cold again they dance below me I turn to old friends they do not know me All but the beggar he remembers I put a penny down for payment In my rehearsals for retirement
Had I known the end would end in laughter I tell my daughter it doesn't matter...
- Phil Ochs, Rehearsals for Retirement
UNTITLED (FOR DAVID GATTEN) Phil Solomon & Mark LaPore Video 5:00 2005
Mark and I made this film for our friend David Gatten, as a prayer, an offering, a get well soon card... for all three of us. It was made on the last night that I saw Mark, my best friend of 32 years. Phil Solomon
AND WE ALL SHINE ON Michael Robinson 16mm 7:00 2006
An ill wind is transmitting through the lonely night, its signals spreading myth and deception along its murky path. Conjuring a vision of a post-apocalyptic paradise, this unworldly broadcast reveals its hidden demons via layered landscapes and karaoke, singing the dangers of mediated spirituality. Michael Robinson
SHE PUPPET Peggy Ahwesh Video, 17:00 2001
In a work based on appropriated footage from the game Tomb Raider, Lara Croft, the virtual girl-doll of the late 20th century, is recast as a triad of her personas: the alien, the orphan, and the clone. - Video Data Bank
UNTITLED #2 Valerie Brewer Video, 13:00 2006
UNTITLED #2 exploits a glitch in the visual landscape of an online community to tease out the vague boundaries and tenuous relationships of virtual identity, property, and body. Valerie Brewer
STRANGER COMES TO TOWN Jacqueline Goss Video 28:00 2006
STRANGER COMES TO TOW
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LocationChopin Theater
1543 W. Division
Chicago, IL 60622
United States
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