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STRANGER THAN A STRANGE LAND Total Runtime: 112m Warm Objects 1 Peggy Ahwesh, U.S., 2007; 3m “Nothing happens any longer to humans; it is to the image that everything happens.”—Serge Daney Notes from a Bastard Child 1 2 3 4 5 6 Fern Silva, U.S./Portugal, 2007; 6m The Mongrel Sister Luther Price, U.S., 2007; 7m Victory Over the Sun 1 Michael Robinson, U.S., 2007; 12ms “Dormant sites of past World’s Fairs breed an eruptive struggle between spirit and matter, ego and industry, futurism and failure. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory; nothing lasts forever, even cold November Rain.”—M.R. Stranger Comes to Town 1 2 3 Jacqueline Goss, U.S., 2007; 28m They say there’s only two stories in the world: man goes on a journey, and stranger comes to town. Six people are interviewed anonymously about their experiences coming into the U.S. Each then designs a video game avatar who tells their story by proxy. Goss focuses on the questions and examinations used to establish identity at the border, and how these processes in turn affect one’s own sense of self and view of the world. Stranger Comes to Town reworks animations from the Department of Homeland Security, combining them with stories from the border, impressions from the on-line game World of Warcraft, and journeys via Google Earth to tell a tale of bodies moving through lands familiar and strange. Support from Creative Capital, DAAD Foundation, and Bard Faculty Research Fund. Light Is Waiting 1 2 Michael Robinson, U.S., 2007; 11m “A very special episode of television’s Full House devours itself from the inside out, excavating a hypnotic nightmare of a culture lost at sea. Tropes of video art and family entertainment face off in a luminous orgy from which neither will survive.”—J.R. SpaceDisco-One 1 2 3 4 5 Damon Packard, U.S., 2007; 45m “Finally… after a long hiatus, director Damon (Reflections of Evil) Packard returns with his epic sequel to Logan’s Run and 1984 combined. A fantastic, lamenting portrait of how the celebrative late 70’s changed drastically beginning in the year 1984, crystallizing by the year 1990, freeze framing and leading us to the hideous present day. Descendants of characters seen in Logan’s Run, Battlestar Galactica, Blade Runner, 1984 and Krull are tracking down rogue “replicants” on the orbital platform “SpaceDisco-One”—an interstellar craft whose interior is largely represented by a rainbow-glowing skating rink. Meanwhile, 1984’s Winston Smith has crashed through some kind of inter-dimensional gateway and somehow ended up in the middle of this mess. He finds himself trying to escape from Oceania while StarGirl and Skyla try to rescue Starbuck (Dirk Benedict) from the Big Brother TV show.”—D.P. Go to Reflections of Evil & MySpace.com - Damon Packard for more information.

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