A look at new works by Boston's new and up and coming film/video makers from SMFA, Mass Art, etc.

Assault rhythms Part 1 1min, 2000
Director: David Matorin

Assault Rhythms Part I is the first in a series of pieces culled from Hi-8 footage captured during the D2K protests surrounding the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles last summer. It's an gestural expression of my experience shooting video there with the LA Independent Media Center, and a comment on the police procedures which I witnessed during that week. The principle footage and accompanying sound was captured on the third day of protests. Police are forciblely clearing one side of the street during a march. The image is of a protester being struck by a police baton. The image shakes and spins to the ground because of the impact of a baton on my own body while shooting. The event lasts for around a second. These small bursts of violence happened routinely and without warning throughout the marches. With repetition, my intention is to expose and examine the brutality of normal police procedure that happens so fast as to be easily missed, glossed over, or hidden from public view. What I hope to offer is a constructed glimpse at the mechanism by which this power structure (like all others) is kept in place. Before, after, and cut in during are images of the objects of aggression, those who would call for a change in this structure. Violent montage underscores the combustible space between these parties and the need to arrive at some synthesis between the existing order and those who are disenfranchised by it. David Matorin 'Originally from Somerville MA, I graduated from Brookline High School in '97. I 'm currently a junior at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, working in film, sound and video. Additional work may be seen in the Quadraphonia exhibit of the Boston Cyberarts Festival April 28th-May 5th. Info available at www.berwickinstitute.org.'

Sleep:The Trailor 2min, 2000
Director: Jamie O'Brien

Sleep: The Trailor: We've all heard, read or seen stills from Andy Warhol's classic Sleep. Now, it is retold by jamie o'brien. This video was conceived to be an "art joke". Jamie O'Brien has been going to the School of the Museum of Fine Arts for 2 years now, and throughout those years has been rising up to make those in his path laugh. In 1998 he began performing publicly. Inventor of the Space Guitar, he has toured New England and Georgia educated those that are not about a "guitar from space". Jamie O'Brien currently resides in Jamaica Plain where he still remains a clown.

The Dream 5min, 2000
Director: John Repose, Paul Kwiatkowski

A reflection on the artist, muse, product, relationship. John Reposa & Paul Kwiatkowski two first year students at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

7:15 in the Morning 5.5min, 2000
PoM 2min, 2000
Director: Cliff Evans

7:15 in the Morning	PoM

7:15 in the Morning is a pseudo-scientific exploration of the moments between sleep and waking that accents the beauty of confusion and the fleeting reformations of memory, time, and space. PoM: through the interruptions of glitches and degradations, this rhapsody attempts to find its natural flow past melodrama into ethereal, transcendental chant... finally resolving in a moment of satori. Cliff Evans is a junior at The Museum School, Boston.

Doomed 2min, 2000
Director: Jared Medeiros

A stranger in a strange land. Jared Medeiros is the 2nd year MFA student at SMFA. He concentrates in film and video and recieved his BA from Sarah Lawrence.

The Family Guide of Self-Medication 7min, 2000
Director: Robyn Moore

The self, physically and metaphysically, is the site of the powerful play of the formation and persistence of identity and memory. The Family Guide to Self-Medication is a meditation on the myriad instructions, both implicit and explicit, we receive from our families. "I explore my experience using memories of specific encounters with family members. I grew up in Virginia in a log cabin in the woods. Coming of age in such a dynamic landscape made me acutely aware of my surroundings and how landscape (physical, emotional, and psychic) forms identity. This has been my informal education; my formal education began with a BA in Art History, an MA in Photography, and continues now with an MFA at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston" - Robyn Moore

Close to You 3min, 2001
Astigmatism 10min, 2001
Director: Ivana George

Close to You: This video explores and challenges the meaning of the category "Natural Woman." Central to the piece is the notion that gender is a social construct, not a characteristic innate from birth. At the deeper level, this work is about two people trying to make loving, emotional connections with each other regardless of gender identity. Astigmatism: In public people watch each other constantly. Most people make quick judgments about others identities based upon behaviors and clues such as gender expression, assumed sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, size, age, class etc. I have never felt comfortable with being the object of other¹s identity judgements. I try to be aware of myself in public to avoid objectifying other people in this way, however I am not successful all the time. This performance video reverses the public gaze from my female body and explores the feelings involved with these experiences. Ivana George is a visual artist with a photographic background. She is currently pursuing a Masters of Fine Art Degree at the combined graduate degree program of The School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University. During the last two years in graduate school, Ivana has embraced digital video technology and performance while still remaining committed to the classical photographic processes.

Grounded 8 min, 2001
Director: Patrick Sheridan (with live music by Jonathan LaMaster)

A stream of consciousness rush through the ³back stage area² of the travel industry. Like many of us, Patrick Sheridan could only think of travel when it came to the ³Interests² section on Job Applications and his own resumeŠan unhealthy fascination with luggage soon followed, and he was soon slinging bags during the week for the airlines in return for a healthy abuse of there travel benniesŠJonathan LaMaster will provide real-time, stereo orchestration to this jump-cut frenzy in a mechanized salute to the whirring, and stirring puddle jumpers of our time. Founding member of the free-improvisation ensemble Saturnalia, bass player/violinist for the rock band Cul de Sac, and the master-mind behind the local Sublingual Records label, his mastery of both multiple instruments and electronic manipulation will surely inspire all in the audience to quit their jobs and live off of sunchokes in BaliŠPatrick will be on hand for private travel consultations should the need ariseŠ

and Diane Figueredo, Nate Nelson, Uriah Theriault, Katya Gorker....

a still from a film by Diane Figueredo