Film Format: Digital File
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Two Streets & Adela (Dos Calles y una Chica)
In this experimental narrative, we are in a world that moves more slowly, allowing us to savour the sights and sounds. The pace reminds us that in the location where the story unfolds, the south of Spain, things move at a more deliberate pace. We watch flamenco costume designer, Adela, on a very special day. Adela’s life has a rhythm to it, filled with the beautiful colours of the cloth that she uses to create her costumes with. The daily life outside her front window also has a rhythm to it: two streets that intersect in the charming city of…
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Tone Poem with Hang Drum
In this experimental narrative, we are in a world that moves more slowly than the one we are used to, allowing us to savour the sights and sounds. The pace also reminds us that in the place where the story unfolds (southern Spain), things move more at a more deliberate pace than, for example, in the United States. As the short progresses, we see that we are watching lamenco costume designer Adela on a very special day in her life. Adela’s life has a rhythm to it, and is filled with the beautiful colours of the cloth out of which…
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Confidente (Confident)
This is me.
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Against Landscape
“Challenging the romanticization of west coast scenery, Josh Solondz creates a starling work of land art in Against Landscape. Whether political, performative, or both, the artist’s plucky gesture and the video’s precise framing limn the limits of control.” –Andrea Picard, TIFF Wavelengths 2014
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Intersection
On the corner of Brooktondale Rd and route 79 near Ithaca is an amazing planting of Forget-Me-Nots and Dandelions. An improbable dance between different layers of reality, one organic, the other mechanical, an other the numbing every day. Timeless fragility joust with fleeting enamels and the upstanding violence.
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Caravan Park
A man getting by on his charm, Steve is a young adult living in a trailer park. When he sees the person who stole his girlfriend, he’s challenged to be more open and accepting of the world beyond his community.
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Apart
An atmospheric meditation marries fluid visuals and views of the world through tracks of raindrops on glass with a powerful yet subtle sound design to created a cinematic poem on rain and passing. The scenes captured draw a haunting and tenuous connection to the world
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Mixed Signals
A scrambled satellite signal sets the tone for the mixed messages of fundamentalism and politics. A digitally scrambled broadcast, blurs televised images into a kaleidoscope of sound and color, starkly portraying the co-option of religious dogma for profit and political gain.
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Overview
An investigation of time and memory seen from the perspective of a mysterious space. Shadowy images through opaque glass-brick obscure familiarity as distant sounds complete a haunting remembrance of a city. As the mystery unfolds, a solitary exploration is revealed.
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Truck
An aging junkie (the filmmaker’s uncle) reflects upon the glories of smack, his rebel / criminal past and getting ‘clean’.
