May 17th 2001
Independent Exposure

Balagan is pleased to host an evening of Experimental works compiled by Joel S. Bachar, Founder of Microcinema and Blackchair Productions based in Seattle, Washington and on the web www.microcinema.com.

Microcinema/Blackchair Productions presents:

EYE MUSIC silent 2.5 min
Director: Joel Schlemowitz
Silent music produced by a wind-up record player.

Two Minutes on a Subway Train 7min
Director: Paul Catanese

A digital work which is constructed as a sojourn through simultaneous memories.

Paul Catanese is an experimental animator who works with film, video and interactive media. He has worked primarily with methods of digital animation, including 3D animation & digital painting. Recently, he has been working with stop-motion puppetry & digital photography. With a strong interest and background in lighting design, his animations negotiate time and memory through light and its absence. Notably, Mr. Catanese¹s work has most recently screened at Animac99, The Bangkok Experimental Film Festival & the Center on Contemporary Art in Seattle. His work has appeared internationally and is currently distributed through Blackchair Productions & also through Offline Networks. Currently, Mr. Catanese teaches digital animation at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and heads the Shockwave Game Development company skeletonmoon.com.

Sweep 7min
Director: Mark Street
A day like any other: Brooklyn beckons so they dart out into it. Daughter and father traipse from the playground to subway and back home again.

Loss 1min
Director: Mike Gillilan
A farm house and blood. A short delving into an unseen side of rural western United States.

Blow Them Up 5.5min
Director: Laura Purdy & Kristy Guevera-Flanagan
Just as a film camera needs to wound in order to function, a blow-up doll needs air to configure itself.

Bored Movie Project 4min
Director: Eric Henry
This video reveals the power of spectacle as it transforms "dead time" into a lively, watchable event.

iota 6min
Director: Carolyn Faber
Via optical printing, Iota explodes a moment in time captured on a fragment of decaying film.

Simulacra 2min
Director: Zoran Dragelj
A visual painting and toning film which turn's the filmmaker's manipulation of film stock into a progression of lines, shapes and explosions of colour and form set to a rhythmic pulsing soundtrack by Steven Brekelmans.

Deja Vu 1.5min
Director: Rica Linders

The constantly recomposing 20th Century landscape based on 19th century romantic landscape paintings.

Catapillar 7min
Director: Veronica Hunter
Organic movement, a beautiful face, light as astringent.

Flow 6min
Director: Serge V. Gregory
This film depicts the flow of water, people and machines into the city.

Grace 6min
Director: Lorelei Pepi

Grace is an experimental animation short constructed in four parts, utilizing multi-media techniques to create a layered and flowing poem of visual metaphor. Exploring flesh and soul, spirituality and sensuality, the incandescent body in space transforms as it reclaims itself.

Lorelei Pepi is an internationally award-winning experimental animation filmmaker residing in Los Angeles, California. Grace debuted in May 1999 as her first film created independantly while a MFA student at California Institute of the Arts. She has participated in numerous commercial film projects as director, animator, and designer in a variety of animation formats ranging from computer, traditional 2-D, and stop-motion. She is currently working as a Creative Director for a Media Lab doing R&D for the Internet, as well as touring and promoting her film.

For more information contact: loreleip@jps.net

P 6.5min
Director: Yuri A.
A single theme is explored in this film. Excrements, babies, worms and flies guide us through a compilation of facts and theories, approaching a theme often regarded as disgusting in a meaningful and pleasant way.