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"Symbolic Abstraction" Shorts Program
"Symbolic Abstraction" Shorts Program

Sun, Jan 22

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Highways

"Symbolic Abstraction" Shorts Program

a Film Maudit 2.0 presentation

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Time & Location

Jan 22, 2023, 6:30 PM – Jan 23, 2023, 8:00 PM

Highways, 1651 18th St, Santa Monica, CA 90404, USA

About The Event

THIS PROGRAM FEATURES THE FOLLOWING FILMS:

Tulipomania: Gone

2021

Dirs. Cheryl Glover & Tom Murray

USA

2:59

When money talks, who is listening? A torrent of tattered animated objects and shredded collage excavates the headlines, as the death knell sounds for the status quo.

The Becoming

2020

Dir. Mélissa Faivre

France/Germany 5:10

A dynamic, fast-paced collage of ink paintings superimposed with videos of extinct and living species of fish, reptiles, and birds. This hallucinatory mix evolves into a succession of increasingly vibrant patterns and ends with an intense explosion of shapes and colors.

Corps Minéral

2021

Dirs. Charline Dally & Gabrielle Harnois-Blouin

Canada (in French)

5:00

An introspective experience inspired by geological transformations and layers of memory, whether they are contained in a piece of rock or in our cells.

Holes

2021

Dir. Birgitta Hosea

UK

5:30

An abstract short, exploring female desire. The artist’s hand penetrates a woman’s body on an imaginary journey created with oil pastels, white spirit, milk, ink, dish soap, lipstick, and pomegranates using hand drawing, After Effects, and a microscopic camera.

2021

Dir. Matt Soar

Canada

3:10

A handmade short combining 16mm and 35mm found footage, hand-woven elements, and DIY frame-by-frame scanning using a Lego-modded lightbox. Inspired (i.e., rocket-fueled) by the hideous spectacle of the richest men in the world pretending to be astronauts while the world burns.

Speck

2022

Dir. Diane Christiansen USA

3:14

A femme hand is both drawn to and frightened by a world of interplanetary wonder.

Ashen Glow

2022

Dir. Eta Dahlia

UK (in English & Russian)

10:00

A bilingual haibun that explores the obscure attributes of an ever-fleeting protagonist. The video poem blends minimalist poetry with inquisitive prose and juxtaposes them with the different visual tempo.

Incantation

2021

Dir. Kalpana Subramanian

USA / India

8:37

A serendipitous ritual of memory…colliding archives of body and place. A cine-incantation to freedom and (be)longing.

Petal to the Metal

2021

Dir. Emily Pelstring

Canada 3:00

A hand-processed 16mm film that reflects on botanical animism. It is a song written for night-crawlers, compost, and shadows, inspired by human flower-lust.

Beauty & the Beasts

2021

Dir. Äggie Pak Yee Lee

Hong Kong / Estonia

3:32

One night, a lady meets a group of lovely beasts—gigantic slimy cheesy ones.

Thinner than Two Ten-Thousandths of a Millimetre

2020 Dir. Gregor Eldarb

Austria

8:17

Soap suds, framing devices, and computer screen glare constitute the raw material from which a highly fragile cosmos of the “infra-thin” unfolds, one step at a time.

Origami

2021

Dir. Maxime Corbeil-Perron

Canada 1:31

“Origami” plays with perspectives and dimensions. Fractals and luminous geometry are here liquefied by the cathode-ray tube of a hacked television set.

Tonalli

2021

Dir. Colectivo Los Ingrávidos

México

16:19

“Based on the ancient Nahuatl concept of the animating soul or life force, ‘Tonalli’ engages the ritualistic powers of cinema, summoning fire, flowers, and many moons in a frenetic and mesmerizing on-camera collage.” –New York Film Festival

Terror Has No Shape

2021

Dir. Luis Arnias USA 10:00

One night in Boston, a bodega cat is the only witness as an alien rock lands among the trees in an empty lot. What comes next condenses the experience of colonialism into a series of fragments—from first encounter to long-haunting aftermath.

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