

Sun, Jan 22
|Highways
"Symbolic Abstraction" Shorts Program
a Film Maudit 2.0 presentation
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.