Works
"2"
An animated meditation on human communication through visual language.
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"Absolute Zero"
An account of the grim and ironic death by freezing of a man trapped inside a refrigerated meat wagon, told using a combination of archival and imagined material to speculate on the man's final hours.
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"Agnieszka (A dark symphony of 2039)"
Joy and pain go hand in hand when an angelic being is delivered the box of eternity and subjected to the fateful decision of the gods.
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"A Man in the Attic"
In this narrated short film, an American Muslim ponders, discusses and ruminates on his position in America, and the decline of his people in western civilization. A quiet and emotional sequence of imagery and poetic words presents a first-hand account of a life, experience and voice heavily underexposed in a time where such voices ought to be heard.
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"A Moving Feast"
"A Moving Feast" is a documentary about the infancy, development and influence of independent filmmaking in the Tampa Bay area. This piece explores the earliest days of experimental cinema in the Tampa area which radiated from the hub of the Cinematography Department at the University of South Florida in the late 70's and early 80's to the technology revolution which allows virtually everyone an opportunity to tell their story through the moving image. The film examines the spirit of the independent film and video artist, the sense of community established through experimentation and the desire to create without staying in the lines.
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"A Shift in Perception"
A humanistic Super8 documentary short loaded with visual poetry and an air of nostalgia. Enter the worlds of three vision-impaired South Australian women as they lead you through their daily lives, dreams, fears and observations.
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"Ballad of the Skunk Ape"
Skunk Ape is Florida's version of the Yeti or Big Foot. The more we see of Skunk Ape the closer we will be to a Florida comprised of nothing but mouse ears, yard flamingos and artificial water parks. Skunk Ape appeals to a part of modern people that has been lost, or more likely paved over. Watch out, there are not many places left for Skunk Ape to hide.
"Banal"
As all teenagers, Ainoa has had an exhausting school day. So this summer, for the first time, she has decided to go on holidays wherever she pleases, and not were her father decides.
"Bars+Tone"
SMPTE Color bars and a 1kHz test tone morph continuously into the image and sound of a beach sunset - a conceptually simple transformation which provides a site for consideration of numerous dualities. The bars are a utilitarian image not meant to be seen; the beach sunset is a sought-after image of such widely-accepted beauty that it has become a cliche. The bars consist of sharp rectangles of pure colors; the sunset consists of fuzzy areas of complex colors. Both images represent the color spectrum in their own way, which provides a strategy for the transformation.
"Blood and Tears"
Like an open wound that will not heal the Arab-Israeli conflict refuses to be resolved. Documentary producer and director, Isidore Rosmarin, has made the definitive film on this seemingly irresolvable conflict by going right to the source: the ministers and mullahs, the fanatics and peaceniks, the soldiers and terrorists, and the ordinary families battling extraordinary forces as they try to live a normal life.
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"Boletos Por Favor"
A train, a pursuit, only one way to escape...
"California Excursions II: Clovis Avenue"
Picking up where "California Excursions" left off, the Lyons brothers take a playful trek down the entire length of Clovis Avenue in "California Excursions II: Clovis Avenue".
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"Caught in Paint"
"Caught in Paint" is a six-minute video capturing painter/sculptor Rita Blitt painting on four by eight foot transparent surfaces while choreographer David Parsons and members of the Parsons Dance Company are seen in mid-air, through the painting, imitating the dancing lines of Blitt's paint strokes. Lois Greenfield, who collaborated in this union of paint, dance and photography, made dynamic photographs as she, too, was being filmed. The creative sparks and positive energy of all the artists challenged the group to stretch their limits and perform magic.
"Cea"
"Cea", a film without words draws us into a captivating sensory experience . The slow, melodic rhythms and quiet energy of this film offer a powerful dichotomy to the frenetic pace of today's dominant urban culture. The movement flows with the grace of poetry, to an original score that takes us back, through our collective rural history.
"Cheech"
"Cheech" is a gangster-movie-style tragicomedy that immerses us in the unique world of an escort agency. Ron, the owner of a small agency, finds out he's been robbed and that his book of girls is missing. Jenny, his most popular employee, swears that she's loyal -- but is she, really?
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"CONStruct"
Wherever two things are placed side by side there exists the metaphorical structure inherent to meaning. "CONstruct" is a site-specific outdoor installation that juxtaposes imagery of Yosemite's Vernal Fall progressing forward and backward - i.e., the water travels into the past and toward the future simultaneously.
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"Cherry Stars"
Jeramichael Bonds, Justin Corbette, Kym O'Donnell, Brian Taylor, "Kombat" Kelly Benjamin, joe griffith and special thanks to Frank Rodriguez and Edit Suites
"C-ybor-G: C is for City, G is for ciGar"
"C-ybor-G: C is for City, G is for ciGar", a sound piece for 4-channels of independent sound incorporating the sound of a burning cigar. Projection of a cigar across the length of Shahreyar Ataie installation at El Pasaje building. -- one that burns over the length of the sound piece.
"Dare Not Walk Alone"
"Dare Not Walk Alone" reveals the untold history of the civil rights movement in the town of St. Augustine, FL. An escalating struggle against the racial establishment by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his non-violent protestors led to the battle to integrate one motel, culminating in a horrific incident in the motel's pool in which the proprietor, James Brock, poured acid on a group of wading protesters.
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"Diesel"
Diesel power sets the pace for this short erotic film...
"Display Devices"
Based on a completely improvised performance, "Display Devices" imagines a pixelated universe, in which tiny rectangles of pure color are combined into images which display coded messages of gender, philosophy, and urgently personal visions.
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"DVD"
"I have spent the last 28 years of my life doing research for 'DVD'. The main purpose of the short film was to tell a classic story of "Boy meets Girl" in a different way, and starring movie, video-games and comic-book geeks. We take a peek inside the geek world as if we were watching a dvd, with audio commentary, scene selection, music video, trailer, deleted scene, alternative ending, etc. All of these extras, widely known to the majority of viewers thanks to the popularity of the format, are indeed part of the narrative."
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"Eaten"
A game of dress-up: windows and wallpaper, hawks and moths, olive loaf and tinfoil. The sounds and gestures of the everyday gather to become the pre-articulated vocabulary of desire, anxiety, and basic human needs.
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"Elusion"
A non-narrative experimental documentary that is like a waking dream. It takes the best tricks/combos of the myths, legends and ghosts of the North American flatland (BMX) community and flows them from one scene to the next in fluid motion with an original score that pulls its viewers inward. Meant as a historical document for future generations to show flatland as we as flatlanders see it while maintaining the elusive nature of the flatlanders themselves.
"El Pasaje"
Screens of colored chiffon cover each of the 20 arched openings. This delicate material allows sunlight to filer through and bathe the passage and the pedestrian in a gossamer of light, a radiance of alternating colors spanning the length of the arcade.
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"En El Hoyo"
Lucia is desperate and decides to take her own life.
"Experimental Lives"
Short experimental videos by: Francis Leonard, Brad Davis, Liron Harpaz, Ryan Egan, Yunier Cervino, Cyndi Burton, Catherine Villeneuve, Jennifer Harper, David Lopez, Reva Castillenti, Rick Lange, Candra Berglund, Sylvia Skepple, Lucky Rosman and Katie Foster
"Farewell Frieda"
A silent film shot in non-conventional methods about a girl, her doll, and her unemployed uncle's plunge into alcohol driven insanity. All played to the tune of groovy 60's music.
"The Field"
It's October 1962 and a young boy tries to make sense of the world as nuclear war between the US and Russia looms on the horizon. Imitating what they see on TV, the boy and his friends inncocently play at war while nations prepare for it. The Field is a quiet film that speaks loudest with the beauty of its images and the quality of its ideas.
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"For a Swim With The Fish"
A girl, 9, tells her Aunt Frankie, 19, to pick her up after school "at the beach" because it's her mother's birthday. Her mother has drowned in the Gulf of Mexico, but the girl believes that she simply relocated, since her former job was working as a mermaid at the Weeki Wachee Water Park. She skips school to watch a mermaid show and then, along with her annoying but endearing sidekick, heads to the beach and is finally reunited with her mother.
"Frozen Souls"
Three men talking to three women we never see, three men arguing, three men claiming no one understands them. "Frozen souls" is a deep insight in the every day life of three isolated characters, a quick glance into the drama hidden behind the anonymous faces we see on the streets any given day.
"F**K"
A definitive look at the infamous expletive, "F**K" explores how this oft-used word, still widely seen as obscene, somehow permeates every aspect of our culture - from Hollywood, to the schoolyard, to the Senate floor in Washington D.C., where it is at the very center of the ongoing debate on Free Speech.
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"The Ghosts of Ybor: The End is Blossoming"
In "The End of Blossoming", a Sicilian mobster from New York City moves to Ybor City to take control of the illegal lottery bolita from Ybor gangster Charlie Wall. With him the Sicilian mobster brings his beautiful indentured servant. A local bartender falls in love with the indentured servant and promises to do all he can to free her from the mobster's grasp.
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"Huellas En La Nieve"
A fable, a cross between sci-fi and traditional tales, about human condition and the loss of innocence, that takes place in a real yet symbolic world, which is both cruel and magical.
"Human Error"
In "Human Error", three corporate slugs jockey for position within a decaying multi-national conglomerate. The latest to arrive, Dobbitt, was sent for an indeterminate but lengthy stint at the grungiest of third-world factories - an increasingly dangerous plant that produces toxins as it belches out its mysterious "Units" to meet the company's quotas. On arrival, Dobbitt meets his new colleague and roommate-from-hell Hanrahan. While Dobbitt tries his hardest to please, Hanrahan is a caustic and bitter man who immediately questions the new arrival's motives. The two report to Merkin, a petty and paranoid manager who ruthlessly pits his two subordinates against each other. In their own ways, the three "tango" for power within the company, forming and breaking and reforming alliances along the way.
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"The Intimacy of Strangers"
You used to have to make an effort to overhear other people's conversations. Now you have to make an effort not to. "The Intimacy of Strangers" is a story of life, love, loss and hope - entirely constructed out of real, overheard mobile phone conversations of random strangers.
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"Innuendo (And Out the Other)"
"Innuendo (And Out The Other)" tangles with those seeking power, those reeking of power, and the latent fury of the rank defiled. The performantz is a series of news stories, great stories and personal stories converted into an evening soiree of sorry extremes.
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"The Journals of Knud Rasmussen"
The great shaman, Avva, and his family are living on the land far from Iglulik, his home community. Explorer/adventurer Knud Rasmussen pays Avva a visit. Rasmussen hears and records Avva's life story and that of his wife Orulu. After a celebration, Rasmussen leaves to head west while Avva, facing strong headwinds, sets out with his family and guests en route for home. His beautiful daughter, Apak, has troubling dreams about the road ahead.
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"La Caja de Muertos"
Tracy Midulla Reller, HCC professor of printmaking, and Kurt Piazza, curator at Gulf Coast Art Museum, Largo, present a digital installation. When the "nines" touch in Cuban dominoes, the pattern is called "La Caja de Muertos", the dead man's box.
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"Ladies Night Out"
Las Raíces de mi Corazón
"Las Raéces de mi Corazón" (The Roots of my Heart) is the first independently produced Cuban feature film that addresses the 1912 massacre of over 6,000 members of the Independents of Color - the hemisphere's first black political party outside Haiti. In 1908, the period following Cuban independence they organized to fight for their rights to full employment, education, political participation, and above all respect and dignity.
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"Life in the Web"
"Through my form of 'self-puppetry', I am exploring the identity of the artist and process of the art.. This video uses fabrics, figures and miniature sets, to create an enchanting operatic vision. Influenced by the work of Remedios Varo, assemblages of Hannah Hoch, the supernatural world of the Japanese Noh theater, and a fascination with puppets and dolls."
"Manufactured Landscapes"
"Manufactured Landscapes" is a feature documentary on the work of Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky. The film follows him as he travels through China photographing the evidence and effects of that country's massive industrial revolution.
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"Masizakhe: Let Us Build Together"
Although banned in 1994, apartheid is still a reality in South Africa today. This film highlights the current role that activism is playing in the rebuilding of a nation that has been physically and psychologically scarred.
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"Messenger"
Take a ride with Kamikaze, New York City's most legendary bike messenger and world class character. Be part of the action and learn the street wisdom he's gleaned about work, women and the meaning of life from his 25 years on NYC's streets.
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"Miami Beach: Fabulous Fifties"
Locals reminisce about the hey-day of Miami Beach. Historic photographs and footage transport the viewer to the era when Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin lounged poolside at the Fountainebleau Hotel and locals went to the shows at the Tropicana and Five O'clock Club.
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Mirage
"Mirage" is a story about my life as a collector who has endless desires. Main character is a bio-mechanic robot who has to fill his glass chest with water in order to sustain his life. This story happens in water but the robot cannot recognize it. He just wants to get more water. During his journey, he meets a fish. Both need water...
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"My Backyard Was A Mountain"
Ten-year-old Adan lives a carefree life in the rural town of Palmarejo, Puerto Rico, in the late 1950's, surrounded by his friends, his caring mother, Lilliam, and his beloved pet goat, Chivo. His father, Pablo, returns home from New York City after a brief absence, bringing good news that he has found employment there and announcing he will be moving the family to the distant city immediately. Although Adan initially thinks the trip will be fun and exciting, he discovers that he cannot take Chivo along with him. With the help of his childhood friend, Denise, Adan embarks on a quest to find a new home for his goat. A compelling, personal story with emotional resonance for anyone with a loving heart.
"The Naked Hitch-Hiker"
"The Naked Hitchhiker" is an exquisitely rendered animation by first time filmmaker Eleanor Lanahan. The viewer is drawn into the rich emotional mindscape of a woman coming to grips with the destructive patterns that dictate her emotions. Reeling from a crushing marital breakup, a hitchhiker is picked up by an empathetic trucker. As they drive through a blizzard they explore a bizarre landscape of emotional mechanisms that have played a damaging role in her sense of herself. Richly layered, with intelligence and humor, the Naked Hitchhiker resonates with anyone who is aware of his ingrained discourses and self doubts. The film is a lavishly visual and entertaining look at a journey toward self-discovery and of the benefits of trying to understand one's self.
"My Name is Wallace"
A lonely, high functioning mentally challenged man falls in love with a 900 sex-line operator, and through that call, both find redemption.
"Nosotros y el Jazz"
The Independent Video Group Images of the Caribbean, led by Cuban filmmaker Gloria Rolando, filmed "Nosotros y El Jazz" (The Jazz in Us) in 2004. This documentary highlights a chapter of cultural history shared by Afro-Cubans and African-Americans through a love of jazz music.
"The Package"
Somewhere in a tiny cobblestone village, "The Package" is the story of a hunchbacked deliveryman's excruciating physical transformation at the hands of a maniacal scientist, in order to win the heart of the woman he desires. However, newfound beauty demands its price, and little does he know, she has a secret as well.
"Passing"
"Passing" is a short film that explores the idea of passing (passing time, passing histories, and passing away). To create the film, self-portrait photographs of the filmmaker, taken in an abandoned home, were used as a stage to re-inhabit and reinvent through single frame animation. Mark making, collage and sound engender a new history in the spaces of a vanishing home.
"Pasteur 3"
What occurs to a bodily system following exposure to rabies and golden rod. "The film seemed to me the
ultimate portrait of an immigrant, or the Displaced Person - displaced in nature, displaced on the continent.
With this pun or metaphor that he makes, and despite all the artifice, it seems quite natural, it comes across
as both funny and sad. How odd it is to walk through this world and find there are things that poison you."
- Stan Brakhage
"Pillow Girl"
Originally a sound-art work created for the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver by musician/artist Ronnie Cramer, who scanned the covers and inside pages of a number of lurid, vintage paperbacks, then ran the collected image and text data through a variety of synthesizers. The resulting sound files were then processed and remixed into the soundtrack for "Pillow Girl" film; the visual portion of the film makes use of the over 200 covers, with one illustrated figure morphing into the next every two seconds.
"Pilot/Gamer"
Can you fly? A meditation on flight, games, suicide bombs, and self.
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"Radiant City"
Gary Burns, Canada's king of surreal comedy, joins journalist Jim Brown on an outing to the suburbs. Venturing into territory both familiar and foreign, they turn the documentary genre inside out, crafting a vivid account of life in The Late Suburban Age. Burns and Brown rummage through a toy box of cultural references, from Jane Jacobs to The Sopranos, to create a provocative reflection on why we live the way we do. Riffing off sitcoms and reality TV, they play fast and loose with a range of cinematic devices to consider what happens when cities get sick and mutate.
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"The Rat Show"
A postmodern comedy about two rat sisters and their strange experiences living together in a haunted house.
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"Sanderson County"
There is more to life in Sanderson County than RC Cola and Moon Pies. Not much more, but there is more.
But don't think that people in Sanderson County ain't got no dreams. Billy Ray's big plan is to get hisself a double wide trailer. And Billy Ray's cousin Augusteena, she just wants to find Elvis.More...
"The Solution"
This film explores the greed, apathy, prejudices and racism of a society transformed by an "economic miracle". Jerry has done well during Irelands recent economic boom. A wealthy property man, he has recently married a younger woman. They live with his physically disabled son from a previous marriage. It looks like he has the perfect life, but if we scratch the surface there is something very dark and disturbing underneath.
"Souffle Sur Le Miroir"
Souffle sur le Miroir (Breath on the Mirror) was made during a four-month residency in Pont-Aven, France. The film seeks to explore how space, culture and geography influence dreams and how consequently those dreams can be reinterpreted through varied technologies.
"Startle Pattern"
"Startle Pattern" is a farewell card to the film medium. In this late age of emulsion, this essay is a call of the cinematic gaze to a state of crisis. The film functions as a deconstruction of spectatorship and authorship in the moving image...a puppet's form tattered and decayed, hinting at the protagonist's delicate relationship with reality, voyeurism, the director and the apparatus.
"Ten at the Top in Tampa Bay"
This film captures an unprecedented time in the City of Tampa and surrounding Hillsborough County, Florida, where 10 trailblazing women head government institutions, in positions traditionally held by men. Many of these women describe the obstacles they faced, as well as the mentors who helped them reach the top.
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"Ten Souls Rising"
Eight New Yorkers and two French tourists become intimately acquainted in the elevator of a Manhattan skyscraper.
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"Three Scenes"
Music and image - both by the same artist - both completely primary, neither subservient to the other. A composition conceived as an organic, seamless whole.
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"'Til Death"
"Trabajo: Sobre y Debajo"
"Trabajo: Sobre y Debajo" combines live performance with sampled and looped material. It examines the uneasy balance that existed after the Second World War in Ybor City between Cuban exiles living and working in the area and the Tampa-based branch of the Mafia, which ran the bolita trade.
"Transfiguration"
"Transfiguration" is an exercise in creation through destruction. It appropriates, mashes and mutates Internet pornography to create a new sensory experience and explores the effect of unchecked desires on perceptions. The transformative power of desire on a person's life, reality and politics all intertwine in the film.
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"Tres Cuentos, One Cuba"
Tampa-based photographer David Audet, Cuban-born musician Alfredo Rivero and Tampa's Poet Laureate James Tokely each offer their own artistic view of the Communist Paradise in a blind collaboration edited and produced by Tampa filmmaker Fred Smith.
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"Un Chien Andalou"
One of the most scandalous, scabrous, revolutionary films ever made. Filled with an onslaught of unforgettably blasphemous, sexual and unsettling imagery they are the powerful prime examples of surrealist filmmaking.
"Via Crucis"
"Via Crucis" is a video installation consisting of fourteen synchronized 5x7-inch video screens mounted on two walls resembling medieval Catholic representations of the Stations of the Cross. The audience is lead to reflect on current religious and political world affairs: "If the Messiah comes or returns, with his army, with the Pope, would he fight? Would he oppress? Would he hunt Bin Laden? Help the Israelis overtake the Holy Land? Abandon those who love Mohammed? Are you the Antichrist?"
"Watersmith"
Perhaps Hindle's magnum opus to date. New York Times critic Vincent Canby calls "Watersmith" "beautiful abstract patterns of lines of energy. A kind of ode to physical grace." A deceptively "calm" film requiring an equally calm audience and a superior soundtrack reproduction system, "Watersmith" weaves its lone visual threads closer and closer until the screen is awash with multiple levels of artistic achievement.
"Way"
An isolated and lost woman awakens from a state of regression. She seeks out the answers to her predicament within her memories. It is there that she will discover her identity and release. Ultimately, she will find the courage and the strength to break free from her self-imposed prison.
"What Ten Cents Could Buy (And Other Ybor City Memories)"
This piece is based on the Ybor City memories of long-time Tampa resident Jerry Garcia. Tales of earning money and living in Ybor City bring to life a long past and simpler time in what was one of the country's most unique communities. A three-screen video playback adds a layer of abstraction to the stories, as does the electronic sounds and treatments of the voice.
"The White She-Camel"
The spectator of "The White She-Camel" might have a premonition about what it means to be a "stranger in the world", like solitary weight, but also like the tension of discovery, like the desire to retrieve his past, like a longing to find a viable place. However, only few things will come to his rescue. Xavier Christiaens has invented a new way of remembering, to turn back time by single jolts, by upheaval, by negative "apparitions", declaiming time like a song that is said backwards.
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"Ybor Paintings"
Ferdie Pacheco, a native of Ybor City, is an imaginative and prolific artist, although he is perhaps best known as boxer Muhammad Ali's ringside fight doctor and colorful television boxing commentator.
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