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Curious light (Charlotte Pryce, 2011)Another Experiment By Women Film Festival's 3rd Festival Show
Tuesday March 13, 2012, 19:15h
Anthology Film Archives 32 Second Avenue, New York 10003

Curated by Lili White
Featuring 16mm films by Charlotte Pryce & Caryn Cline

Filmmakers attending: Maria Niro, Caryn Cline, Noe Kidder, Courtney Krantz

Other works to be screened by: Mercedes Sader (Uraguay), Matoula Eolou Gekko (France/Greece), Muriel Montini (France), Kyja Kristjana-Nelson (USA/Iceland), Nandita Kumar (India/New Zealand), and from the USA: Maria Niro, Charmaine Ortiz, Yana (Ioanna) Sakellion, Noe Kidder, Charlotte Pryce, Courtney Krantz, & Caryn Cline

This year AXWFF presented Three different Festival Screenings, a Panel Discussion with Eight International Filmmakers, and several filmmakers were screened in Uruguay's Roman Partes Experimental Film Festival and at the Mirror/Lens conference in Cambridge, England

AXWFF will continue to present shows thru New Filmmakers’ Women's Night at Anthology Film Archives in 2012.

Programme
- Miedos (Fears), Mercedes Sader, Uruguay, TRT: 2:06, digi
I was a fearless woman until I had my first son. The fear of losing, the fear of pain, enter in my life. Conscius and reason took other road than feelings and emotions. Flying in the middle of a storm, facing a brain tumor and still being here are fears that inspired this short film
- My father was a gangster, Noe Kidder & Tin Tay, 2.26, 16MM to digi
Self portrait of a young woman, reckoning with her father’s past.
- Torso, Maria Niro, USA, TRT: 02:39, digi
A torso, a cargo ship, reflecting sky and a flight through the clouds create this odd visual articulation of Rainer Maria Rilke’s poem Archaic Torso of Apollo. Torso addresses individual responsibility towards collective consumption, the attempt to understand how one can relate to the global market place and challenge this relationship.
- Seasonal joy, Charmaine Ortiz, USA, TRT: 3:13, digi
A mash up of various Public Domain Sources that explores the psychological short comings of temporal happiness using adapted public domain footage. When are minds are consumed by the warm weather–a psychological take over by summer (spring fever in a sense), questions regarding the true nature of this blindsiding emerge.
- This is a test reel, Matoula Eolou Gekko, France/Greece, TRT: 3.00, 8MM & Super 8 to digi
The 8th of april 2010 I went out in the main streets of athens to test a new super 8 camera. I asked random strangers to hold captions I had prepared, therefore making their short portraits and transforming a small super 8 reel in a collective project.This was my own way of reacting to the fear and deception that had been created due to ‘the crisis’ that had just been announced in Greece. The super 8 was the dreamt medium, the one that was in opposition from tv, from the flux, and that allowed to create a space for encounters, just for a reel’s time.
- A cold place, Muriel Montini, Music: King Arthur by Purcell, France, TRT: 4.00, digi
The Paris Bourse. A winter’s evening. Traders have a break.
- Curious light, Charlotte Pryce, USA, TRT: 4.00, 16MM
A manuscript illuminated: illustrations retreat into the fiber of the page, a fleeting light dissolves into the emulsion of the film: an elusive story is revisited.The film is entirely hand processed
- My father’s letters, Yana (Ioanna) Sakellion, USA, TRT: 2.15, Digi
This piece is based on a personal narrative and expresses the early fascination with handwritten letter-forms and textile qualities of handwriting. The digital short conveys a childhood associations between the object and the meaning, while experimenting with kinetic typography.
- Sveit, Kyja Kristjana, USA / Iceland, TRT: 9.00, digi
While unpacking memories and stories of her grandfather’s experience as a New American in North Dakota, Kyja documents the history and mythology of her family’s emigration while negotiating the reality of present day Iceland.
- Birth of brainfly, Nandita Kumar, India/ New Zealand, TRT: 6.00, digi
Animation of a surreal journey of a psyche’s evolution within the invisible landscape of the mind. The visual landscape is made up of a mélange of experiments in collage, live action, hand drawn, paint on film and multi plane. This film is inspired by the process of “individuation” (the term coined by psychologist Carl Gustav Jung). A new shift in my work was created due to thought processes force induced by my migration from India to New Zealand. Individuation is a self-discovery of your own psyche and life, one discovers what lies underneath the conscious egocentric personality. Only through a painful process of objective analysis can one evolve. The birth signifies the beginning of a new evoluted being, who is a free creative thinker, who is an aware conscious being.
- Lost collection, Courtney Krantz, Dancer: Kate Rose, USA, TRT: 3:13, 16MM to digi
A film that originates from the body as a preservative measure of time.
- In the conservatory, Caryn Cline, USA, TRT: 05:00, 16MM
In the Conservatory” uses a handmade, “botanicollage” technique to experimentally document one of the filmmaker’s favorite escapes: the Volunteer Park Conservatory in Seattle, Washington.

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Anthology Film Archives - New York, Estados Unidos

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Tuesday, March 13, 2012 - 19:15

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Dates: 

Tuesday, March 13, 2012 - 19:15
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