Portraits of interior and exterior spaces, exploring our visions of the city, our work, our dreams, and our selves.

Spherical Harmonics
Alan Warburton, 5m

Spherical Harmonics is about the strange power of the CGI image. It's a fantasy under construction, full of digitally created memories, counterfeit physics and controlled accidents. A place where reality fails because it's too perfect. (Alan Warburton)

Psychometrics
Alan Warburton, 3m

Late capitalist networked culture is obsessed with improving performance. TED speakers are cult idols, sharing their commandments for success and productivity. On social networks our friends become brands, and brands become our friends. Self-help books are interchangeable with business philosophies. In the conference room - and the weekend supplements - we learn how to shape ourselves, how to be consistent, how to operate. Reduce entropy. Maximise consistency. Become an industry of one. (Alan Warburton)

Mad Ladders
Michael Robinson, 2014, 10m

A modern prophet's visions of mythical destruction and transformation are recounted across a turbulent geometric ceremony of rising curtains, swirling setpieces, and unveiled idols from music television's past. Together, these parallel cults of revelation unlock a pathway to the far side of the sun. (Michael Robinson)

Histories of Simulated Intimacy No. 1
Emily Drummer, 2017, 11m
NY PREMIERE

Histories of Simulated Intimacy No. 1 is the first in a series of sensory essay films that investigate the relationship between distance, intimacy, and technology. Histories situates the concept of technology within its etymological origins; its Greek root, tekhnología, denotes “the systematic treatment of an art, craft, or technique.” Fueled by a body of research that includes ecosystem ecology, the genealogy of voicemail recording, historic dioramas, medical imaging, and prairie reconstruction, the film reimagines the ways in which human influence is always already embedded within natural phenomena. Disparate materials overlap to create a continuum of sentiment—a space in which technologies of intimacy, separated by historical measurements of time, can coalesce in perpetuity. (Emily Drummer)

Connect Haven -- Interior
Zach Hart, Alexandra Wilson, 2018, 4m
WORLD PREMIERE

Apple maps 3D rendered flyover tours become a pleasurable vacation spot for two travelers. On this trip there is one central metaphor. It operates within two temporal moments occurring simultaneously. One moment to commemorate the spaces and communities that were lost to colonialism and have since been converted to virtual tourist destinations. And another to exploit the aerial viewpoints that Apple provides to all of their users; leveling the virtual class dynamic and restructuring Western ideas of perspective that dominate both digital and physical perception. Part one of an ongoing research project.

Heart of a Mountain
Ryan Ferko, Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, 2017, 17m
US PREMIERE

A photograph of a volcanic stone slice from the east coast of Taiwan, famous for its landscape-like patterns created by minerals and geological pressure; a snapshot of a “Capitoline Wolf” replica sculpture, a symbolic gift from an Italian ambassador to Chiang Kai-shek after he fled Mainland China for the island of Taiwan; Heart of a Mountain forms in the area between these objects whose stories are encoded as images. Technologies of translation form sentences that reach towards understanding, guiding a film that binds together human history and geological time in the obscure space that separates languages. (Ryan Ferko)

R-15
Kevin Jerome Everson, 2017, 5m
NY PREMIERE

The material that keeps southern homes warm in the winter months and cool in the summer. (Big Ears)

Round Trip
Philippe Leonard, 2014, 3m

A diptych filmed on a journey between Montreal and New York City. My last roll of Ektachrome to commemorate an important day when two became unified in the act of giving. (Philippe Leonard)

Something Between Us
Jodie Mack, 2015, 10m

A choreographed motion study for twinkling trinkets: costume jewelry and natural wonders join forces to perform plastic pirouettes, dancing a luminous lament until the tide comes in. (Jodie Mack)

Harbour City
Simon Liu, 2015, 12m

A view through cracks between fish markets and high-rise buildings; urban imagery of Hong Kong and the indulgence of domestic life. Massage parlors, dim sum parlors, nail parlors —its Parlor City, baby! Views thicken; detail lost to generations. A dream of turning two images into one, a density of information reserved for the modern cloud. (Simon Liu)