53rd San Francisco International Film Festival 22 April - 6 May 2010
FILMS/
SOMETHING LIKE A DREAM
Shorts
76 minutes
SHOWTIMES
Sat, Apr 24 / 8:45 / PFA / SOME24P
Tue, Apr 27 / 7:00 / Kabuki / SOME27K
This selection of eight new experimental films and videos highlights the diverse approaches and concerns of contemporary film artists. Interior states are made visible and the exterior world is visibly transformed as artists grapple with things awry, in need of restoration or simply deserving a close look. A sense of foreboding permeates many of the works, like a dream slipping towards a nightmare. In others, we awake from the nightmare and begin dreaming.
Ghost Algebra
This cinematic collage, an animated battlefield of fragile creatures and nervous dreams, suggests one of the original meanings of the word algebra: the science of restoring what is missing, the reunion of broken parts. (Janie Geiser, USA 2009, 8 min)
De Luce 1: Vegetare
The colors and light of a garden are transformed by the artist’s alchemical experiments with the film material and photochemical processes. (Janis Crystal Lipzin, USA 2009, 5 min)
The Soul of Things
Using lush black-and-white reversal film, Angerame portrays a city—our city—deconstructed, reconstructed, torn down and built up once again. (Dominic Angerame, USA 2010, 15 min)
Somewhere Only We Know
What can a face reveal? Balanced between composure and collapse, individuals anxiously await their fate. (Jesse McLean, USA 2009, 5 min)
Arnos Tonlabor
This piece of musique concrète constructs a fascinating, abstract portrait of film sound-recordist Arno Wilms as he works in his studio. (Christophe Janetzko, Germany 2009, 8 min)
People’s Republic of Zoo
Sun Xun and his [Pi] Animation Studio’s beautifully hand-drawn and painted animal figures are woven into a series of parables that, inspired by George Orwell’s Animal Farm, draw on history, politics and the natural sciences. (Sun Xun, China 2009, 8 min)
Bolinas
In this silent piece—beautiful abstract images recalling a vision behind closed eyes or perhaps a memory of the senses—breath gives rise to form. (Marcia Scott, USA 2008, 13 min)
Shu (Blue Hour Lullaby)
As night falls in the desert, the lights in the sky meet those that illuminate California’s Security Housing Unit, where prisoners are held in solitary confinement. (Phillip Lachenmann, Germany 2008, 13 min)
—Kathy Geritz & Irina Leimbacher
Total running time 76 min. Presented in association with Kino21.
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