
Program 6 - A Time-Limited Event
72 minutes
Light Matter is Curated by James Hansen
Sunday November 9, 12 PM
Discrete Kinesis No. 1 & 2
Eislow Johnson, USA, 3 minutes
New York Premiere
The first of an interlude series within the multiple potential interstitial states of string harmonics. Hand processing and 16mm-to-digital scanning are treated as points of intervention and compositional instruments.
The second entry in an interlude series within the multiple potential interstitial states of string harmonics. Hand processing and 16mm-to-digital scanning are treated as points of intervention and compositional instruments.
L’attaque de la diligence
Noé Grenier, France, 4 minutes
New York Premiere
The film revisits the sequence of the attack on the stagecoach, an archetypal scene of the western film. Through a Super 8 projection device and refilming on a dismantled LCD screen, the film appears in the light of a vivid and floating flashlight. The landscapes of the American territory stretches over time and history repeats itself.
Made from an 8 mm reel of an extract from the film "Stagecoach" by John Ford (1939).
Remote Views
Alexis McCrimmon, USA, 15 minutes
Remote Views is a televisual stream of consciousness assembled from archival footage set in the Black media explosion of the 1980s. A frenetic remix of public access tv, video diaries, commercial mass media, and citizen journalism sequenced as short vignettes featuring musical and poetic performance, documentation of state violence, political theater and expressions of Black love.
Scantasia
Adam Tinkle, USA, 8 minutes
World Premiere
Inspired by the tradition of visual music (in particular, the Fischinger-copped JS Bach sequence that opens 1942's Fantasia), Scantasia is a rhythmic composition performed on a network of analog synthesizers, where the same voltages trigger rhythmic, synaesthetic shifts in both image and sound. Neither sound nor image is cut to the other; both co-emerge in the flow of real time.
A Certain Light
Nicole Remy, Spain/Australia, 15 minutes
New York Premiere
"A Certain Light' is a journey through the different processes of capturing light through pinholes, accompanied by a cassette recorder during my residency at Nanolab (Daylesford, Australia). It's a step between indoors and outdoors, between moving forward and circling back. It’s about the space I inhabit, walk through, and capture it.
The Alignment Problem
Guilherme Peters, Matias Mariani, Roberto Winter, Brazil, 13 minutes
North American Premiere
The term Alignment Problem in artificial intelligence studies refers to the challenge of ensuring AI systems' goals and behaviors align with human values and intentions. In this experimental short film this concept serves as the through-line for an articulated dialogue between a male and a female entity: he, the creator, seeks to mold her, an embodiment of AI, to mirror his worldview and aims.







