- LATE (2014) by Matt Whitman; Super 8mm, color, silent, 3 minutes, from the maker world premiere—The origin of this film is a 30-second low-quality video, shot spontaneously on a mobile phone. When the video’s subject died suddenly a few weeks after the footage was taken, it became precious as the last moving image containing their likeness. (Matt Whitman)- Quiet Zone (2015) by David Bryant and Karl Lemieux; 35mm, color, sound, 14 minutes, from the National Film Board of Canada u.s.

In Person: Michael Betancourt; Karissa Hahn; Jeremy Moss and Deborah Stratman- CICATRIX (2014) by Jeremy Moss; digital video, color, silent, 7 minutes, from the maker—A textural experience in layers, scars and deterioration that combines hand processed, tinted and toned 16mm imagery. Both sight and sound ooze and emulate those tangible tremors catalyzed by increasing awareness of loss and decay. Footage created at the Independent Imaging Retreat (Film Farm) in Mt. Forest, Ontario, Canada.

In Person: Paul Clipson and GrouperSCREENING:- Hypnosis Display (2014) by Paul Clipson and Grouper; 16mm, color, sound, 75 minutes, from the maker bay area premiereExploring impressionistic, emotional and sensory environments found within the vast natural and urban landscapes of America. Neither image nor sound takes precedence: the two interact and combine preserving a raw sense of the discovery that field recordings and in-camera edited film rushes often yield. Hypnosis Display was commissioned by Opera North Projects.

The films of Chicago-based filmmaker/graphic artist (and co-director of Chicago’s Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation) Alexander Stewart are variously energetic and animated and oddly geological. They flirt with the legacies of structural film and psychedelic cinema while adding significantly to the obscure traditions of the hand-drawn animation and film-as-abstract-graphic-art.