Film Categories: Landscape

  • I Cannot Understand You (Ich Kann Sie Nicht Verstehen)

    Do you ever feel stressed visiting a foreign country? Do language barriers and culture shock make you want to stay home? Do you fear not being understood? Then relax, and let a philosophical Tape Recorder guide you around his favourite city. Along the way you’ll meet some nice people, gaze at beautiful art, and discover the mystery of life. Filmed in Vienna, Austria; Budapest, Hungary; and Raleigh, North Carolina.

  • Chimera

    “Chimera” is a patchwork picture of several places, peoples and spaces. The splayed visual ‘documents’ inner fluctuations and explosive exteriors during the time of terrific change. ‘Chimera’ is ‘a multi-headed beast,’ ‘a fish of remarkable appearance,’ ‘illusion.’ ‘Chimera’ is a collective chant. “The film consists of collected, diaristic images amassed through Hoffman’s travels. Uluru,… Russian shoppers, a Cairo market, and day to day images from home and away…. make floating appearances. These have been gathered on the run, and then reconstituted with an uncanny ephemeral floating rhythm, a dance of light, and replaying, with commendable control, the idea of visual…

  • Sans Titre

    Optically printed, hand-processed and painted, this film records the space of light. It attempts to remove the Form of abstraction from Matter and thus place the viewer in a virtual temporo-space. The last minute of the film is comprised of clear leader. After this, the projector remains running with no film passing through its gate for 30-60 seconds. This flickering white light completes the film’s projection. Note: Running time ranges from 6 to 8 minutes; the exact running time will depend on how long the projector is left running at the end.

  • Site Visit

    Entirely hand-processed and hand-painted, “Site Visit” visually evokes a series of fantasy maps and the imaginary “sites” visited by following the paths laid out. Metaphorically the process of the film depicts the impossibility of concretely mapping disease in the human body, especially the emotional consequences. The degradation of the emulsion through bleaching is parallel to the slow degradation that occurs in the body stricken with cancer.

  • Nocturnal Admissions

    A home’s movie. A 153-year-old home collects and reveals the traces it inhabitants have left behind. A contemplation of the home-movie genre, “Nocturnal Admissions” explores the idea of home as a vessel of remembrance, silently collecting and holding the experiences of those who have lived there. An assimilation of old and new , it meshes past and present homes, film and digital technology, and a nostalgia which invokes the future.

  • Critical Mass

    Shot on Super 8 and blown-up to 16mm for a dreamlike effect, “Critical Mass” is a strange, poetic vision of childhood. From its first vision sequence to its consequential conclusion, the film follows one boy’s wanderings, both internal and external, as he tries to make sense of his world. Life, death, time and place become interchangeable when he happens upon a dead crow, a barren hilltop, and a small boy who serves as a catalyst for his actions. “A low key tale of guttersnipe mysticism… ‘Critical Mass’ is heavy on mood and symbolism, with Cannizzaro drawing some beautiful compositions. What’s…

  • Vanauley Project, The

    Cinema circa 1895 as it was with Louis Lumière… Four single-shot vignettes photographed with a vintage hand-cranked 35mm movie camera. These are the first in a series of 35mm observational films created without the assistance of a motion picture laboratory. Hand-processed and printed by the filmmaker, the project acts as an anthropological document of a neighbourhood in transition while celebrating the textural beauty and analog simplicity of early motion picture technology.

  • Urban Creatures

    In a city park, two silver creatures dance the passion and sorrow of the urban landscape.

  • Christo’s Valley Curtain

    In 1974, Christo built a valley curtain across a mountain pass in the southern United States. This is a record of his struggle and stunning achievement. “‘Valley Curtain’ is by far the finest film I have ever seen about an artist and his work. Technically brilliant, beautifully paced, with not an image wasted or held too long, the film somehow makes it possible for the viewer to become involved at a deep and personal level with the whole marvelous epic. ‘Christo’s Valley Curtain’ is never didactic; it neither explains nor describes and this is its great strength . On its…

  • decisions

    A claustrophobic examination of constraint and the pressurized atmosphere of imminent resolution.