Volume 24
1. Fragments from an Endless War – Georg Koszulinski (2008; 6:30)
Comprised entirely of 16 mm found footage, Fragments examines American culture in an era that has been defined by a state of permanent economic and military warfare.
2. Reverse Cimmaron – Lydia Moyer (2009; 6:14)
Lakota people and the relationship between white and Native Americans. The title refers to a 1931 Western from which the footage of the Oklahoma Land Rush is appropriated and run backward in a kind of unsettling of the West.
3. A Moroccan Remains a Moroccan – Shara K. Lange (2011; 6:40)
The Dressmakers contrasts old and new methods of clothes-making and situates Morocco in its multi-dimensional position among ancient, colonial, post-modern, and global influences that have economic and social ramifications for today's Moroccan people. The changing characteristics of clothing are a metaphor for the transformations happening both on the surface and to the infrastructure of Moroccan culture and economics. .
4. The End – Tammy Renée Brackett (2008; 5:20)
This work contains "THE END" frames from a collection of old educational science filmstrips. They all seem to predict that the world is changing, that people are changing the world, and that people may cause the end of the world. The sound is created from the cassette tapes that accompany the filmstrips - mood music for scientific learning.
5. Shoulders on a Map – Jason Britski (2004; 4:30)
Shoulders on a Map is a film about travel, form, and my thoughts at the time towards Canada as a nation. It is the third part in a series of North American landscape films that I have been shooting since 2003. The central aim of the film is to formally examine the Rocky Mountains on Super 8 film.
6. Ghosts and Gravel Roads – Mike Rollo (2008; 16:00)
An inventory of lost memories and places, the sun bleached landscape of Saskatchewan serves as a metaphor for displacement, a framing of emptiness and absence. Traveling to forgotten towns and channeled through old family photographs the camera catalogs the haunting remnants of the past, frail monuments and communities laid bare, broken under economic collapse. Under the weight of the prairie skies a visceral, personal encounter is revealed in the solace of open space.
7. Lilly – Jodie Mack (2007; 6:30)
A hand-processed formal study of photo-negatives –arranging them under the camera, placing them in the gate of the optical printer, cutting them up and adhering them to 16mm clear leader – reveals only small fragments of a tragic London wartime experience.
8. Measured Sacrifice – An Arbor Avenue Film (2008; 18:20)
In a dystopian future America embroiled in an unending "war on terror," a young woman who is haunted by an immutable past, faces an impossible decision that will forever change her future. Measured Sacrifice asks the question, "What would you do for your country?"
