Sunspots: New Visions of the Avant-Garde
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Sunspots: New Visions of the Avant-Garde
The latest treasures of the experimental film and video world are here to cleanse your cinematic palette! Journey into the warped minds of award-winning artists, who are pushing the boundaries of film language and technique as they explore the mysteries of memory, identity, and the body. Film portraits and video essays will reframe your perspective, while abstract, sensory adventures delight any viewer brave enough to venture this close to the sun.
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Sunspots: New Visions of the Avant-Garde
Grillz & Mirrors
Directed by: Michael U. Olowu
USA, 2023, 4m
A moment of attraction awaits in this fragmented portrait of teeth grillz and the energy they imbue their wearer.
Sunspots: New Visions of the Avant-Garde
A Perfect Storm
Directed by: Karel Doing
Netherlands/UK, 2022, 3m
The artist used seeds, flowers, and plants gathered nearby to craft an ethereal landscape, imprinted on film emulsion.
Sunspots: New Visions of the Avant-Garde
Forward Fast
Directed by: Lorraine Sovern
USA, 2023, 3m
A filmmaker dives into a stark exploration of self as she discovers the seeds of misogyny already planted in the imagery of her childhood home movies.
Sunspots: New Visions of the Avant-Garde
Continental Drifts
Directed by: Georg Koszulinski
USA, 2022, 11m
A point-and-shoot, epistolary, fever-dream, collage film made in times of multiple crises. A metaphysical road trip movie through time.
Sunspots: New Visions of the Avant-Garde
Phase II
Directed by: Kelly L. Sears
USA, 2022, 6m
In the near future, real estate developers deploy sonic weapons to clear neighborhoods for high-end high rises. On the front lines, a sound medic documents the incidents for future sonic activists.
Sunspots: New Visions of the Avant-Garde
Bigger on the Inside
Directed by: Angelo Madsen Minax
USA, 2023, 12m
From an isolated wooded cabin, a trans man stargazes, scruff chats with guys, and watches YouTube tutorials, feeling his way through a cosmology of embodiment.
Sunspots: New Visions of the Avant-Garde
Jill, Uncredited
Directed by: Anthony Ing
Canada/UK, 2022, 18m
One of the world’s most prolific background actors takes center stage in this unique portrait of Jill Goldston, a fifty-year veteran of UK film and television.
Sunspots: New Visions of the Avant-Garde
Picture a Forest
Directed by: Dave Rodriguez
USA, 2023, 4m
An anti-landscape of north Florida woodlands, performing its own impossible, inevitable annihilation.
Sunspots: New Visions of the Avant-Garde
Empire of My Melodious Mind
Directed by: Jeannette Louie
USA, 2022, 9m
In English and Cantonese with English subtitles
Perception embarks on an epic journey through the terrain of memories that form the identity of an American-born Asian.
Sunspots: New Visions of the Avant-Garde
Sunflower Siege Engine
Directed by: Sky Hopinka
USA, 2023, 12m
Movements of resistance are woven together: from reflections of one’s own body in the world today, to documentation of Alcatraz, to the reclamation of Cahokia, and the repatriation of the ancestors.