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These pieces, all influenced by histories of cinema and contemporary video art explore various seen and unseen forces: materials, logics and pressures that ambiguously ooze into the frame of the story through often unspoken and unsettling means.
Lucas Michael's
El Maragato Barometrica is a quiet video, sans dialogue, shot in Uruguay on a cell phone camera that documents a flooded house, a truck, it's attached hose, men at work and a slow, unexplained labor process. The eye witness immediacy of the low end video suggests a moment of crisis and delay on the brink of containment or collapse.
Stanya Kahn's It's Cool, I'm Good follows an androgynously bandaged character with mysteriously attained full body injuries who speaks to the camera from a bed in a hospital, to strangers at a fast food picnic table, in the belly of a world full of contaminated water, pus filled wounds, littered streets and corporately engineered hot dogs.
Flipping by photo after photo throughout the decades at a break neck clip, the 1970's, 80's, 90's and 200's provide the backdrop of memories of embarrassing teen hairdos, social and familial tensions and various cheap photo technologies in Allyson Mitchell's My Life in 5 Minutes. Master paradigms hover and lurk as the narrative glides and lingers through moments of assimilation and refutation amidst swirling colors and inventive lo-fi animated techniques.
Falling in Love with Chris and Greg: Episode 2 Road Trip! TV Special by Chris Vargas and Greg Youmans uses the iconic American Road Trip, a typically liberating and transcendent cinematic motif, in which a gay/trans couple drive from the west coast into the American heartland chafing and squirming more vigorously under the social, political and biological possibilites of marriage as they pummel toward Vegas--chomping high-fructose snacks, sweating and swapping Native American vocabs as they go.
-by Jeannie Simms
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