| November 16th, Thursday, 7:30PM, 2006
Stranger Comes to Town Boston Premiere!
and other works by Jacqueline Goss
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We are excited to welcome Jacqueline Goss back to Boston to present her new video Stranger Comes to Town. Ms. Goss makes videos and web-based works about the ways science, databases, and software shape the way we look at ourselves and the world at large. For the last four years she has used 2D digital animation techniques to work within the nascent genre of the animated documentary. She teaches in the Film and Electronic Arts Department at Bard College in the Hudson Valley of New York.
 Screening:
Stranger Comes to Town (2006, 29 minutes, color stereo) Boston Premiere!
They say there's only two stories in the world: man goes on a journey, and stranger comes to town.
"Stranger Comes to Town" re-works an animation from the Department of Homeland Security --combining it with stories from the border, adventures from World of Warcraft, and journeys via Google Earth to tell a tale of bodies moving through lands both familiar and strange.
 How To Fix The World (2004, 28 minutes color stereo)
Adapted from psychologist A.R. Luria’s research in Uzbekistan in the 1930s, “How to Fix the World” brings to life Luria's conversations with Central Asian farmers learning how to read and write under the unfamiliar principles of Socialism. Colorful digital animations play against a backdrop of images shot in Andijian (where Soviet-era President Karimov's supression of Islam lead to violence in May 2005.) At once conflicting, humorous, and revelatory, these conversations between Luria and his “subjects” illustrate an attempt by one culture to transform another in the name of education and modernization. The subtleties of this transformation, as well as the roots of current cultural conflicts, are found in words exchanged and documented seventy-five years ago.
"Hilarious, unassuming, and immediately engaging, How to Fix the World is an understated and lighthearted, but perceptive exposition on culture clash and imposed assimilation." Acquarello Strictly Film School
There There Square (2002, 14 minutes color silent)
The desire to own and name land and the pleasures of seeing from a distance color this personal survey of the history of mapmaking in the New World.
 “There There Square” takes a close look at the gestures of travelers, mapmakers, and saboteurs that determine how we read - and live within - the lines that define the United States.
"A wry, thoughtful, deceptively simple, and completely silent exploration of the ways that geography can shape history (personal, political). The effect is revelatory—one small shift in vantage point, a blink, and the whole world's turned around." Nick Rutigliano Village Voice
Named one of the top ten best avant-garde works of 2002 by the "Village Voice."
You can learn more at http://www.jacquelinegoss.com/ |
