Are You Together? Film program

MIX/NYC, 2005
Co-curated with EE Miller

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THE FILMS:

  • PERSONAL EFFORT, Paul Rowley and David Phillips (2004, Ireland & US, video, color, 2 min) 

  • FARM-IN-THE-CITY, Bernadine Mellis & EE Miller (U.S. 2004, video, 5:00)

  • MORE BREAD FOREVER, Stephanie Gray (2004, U.S. hand-processed super 8 film, b/w, 11:00)

  • GUM & TEA, Samuael Topiary & EE Miller (U.S., 2005, video, color, 5:00)

  • BECAUSE I LOVE IT, Paula Cronan (U.S., 2004, video, color, 2:

  • YOU ARE NOT FROM HERE, Diane Bonder (U.S., 2005, video (shot on Super 8), color, 9:00)
    MIX veteran, Diane Bonder’s follow-up to the award-winning “If You If You Lived Here You’d Be Home By Now” This exquisitely photographed film explores gentrification and the ways in which the neighborhoods we claim betray us. Shot in super 8 and narrated by Philip Horovitz.

  • MARTIN, Bill Basquin (U.S., 2004, 16mm film, b/w, 5:00)
    MIX veteran Bill Basquin’s latest film is a poetic portrait of a sheep shearer in New Zealand. Delicately sub-textual, Basquin's film suggests meaning, desire, and identification with a sure hand and quiet exposition.

  • COOKING THE WAY TO A MAN´S HEART, Liz Rodda (U.S. 2005, video, 3:42)
    An audio collage of old advertising soundbites provides an eery suggestive landscape for playing with dolls.

  • TILTED, Kai Ling Xue ( U.S., 2003, video, 5:00)
    Found 16 mm medical footage from the Seventies provides inspires a testimonial narrative from the survivor of a queer “condition.”

  • THE DELTA, Daughters of Houdini Carolyn Ryder Cooley & Zoey Kroll (U.S., 1997, video (shot on super 8 film), color, 4:00)
    A surprise encounter with a ravaged landscape: an accordian, assumed identities, and a search for native narratives on a ruptured road.

  • ENDGAME, Alina Grumiller (U.S., 2002, video (shot on 16mm film), color 12:30)
    A time-lapsed view from the filmmaker’s Frankfurt apartment records the construction of a large commercial building. The sound places the visual narrative during the weeks and months following the 2002 US bombing of Afganistan.

  • STAINS AND SPARKLES, Paula Cronan & Juliana Snapper (U.S., 2004, video, color, 5:17)
    Operatic television animation, the color sparkles and interlaced fields of color set to an enigmatic and beautiful composition and performance by the great Juliana Snapper.