Events
Film Study Center Audiovideo Festival at ARTS FIRST
Sunday, May 2, 2010, noon – 6 p.m.
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Main Lecture Hall
The Film Study Center is Harvard's only independent Center devoted to supporting artistic practice at the graduate and faculty level. It was founded in 1957 for the purpose of supporting work that records and interprets the world in images and sounds. As such it sustains endeavors, from the ethnographic to the experimental, that explore and expand the expressive potential of audiovisual media. We provide annual fellowships and promote a community of makers engaged in critical media practice.
Join us for an afternoon of works by current and former fellows, including Q&A sessions with many of the directors:
12:00 pm
The Trap (La Trappe) (19 min.) Lina Verchery
An exploration of the surprising interconnections between the Buddhist monks and Acadian lobster fishermen of rural Cape Breton island, Canada.
Interface series, #4: Presented with severe pain (23 min.) Verena Paravel
A revisitation of a relationship between a mother and a daughter, and a revisitation of their bodies and diseases.
Kapsis (8 min.) Edgar Barroso, Aryo Danusiri, and Yen-Ting Cho
A piece for flute, electro-acoustic music, and video art which portrays the mesmerizing Nahua myth of a young girl who becomes a starfish. Part of a contemporary opera.
1:30 pm
The Yellow Bank (30 min.) J.P. Sniadecki
Watching, waiting, and traversing: a portrait of Shanghai at the confluence of tempestuous weather, looming architecture, and murky waterways during a total solar eclipse.
Little Deaths (12 min.) Ruth Lingford
An animated film that seeks to describe the indescribable... based on taped interviews about the experience of orgasm.
The Town Dock (23 min.) Melissa Davenport
An experimental short capturing the rhythms of summer and the residents of a small town in the microcosm of the town dock.
3:15 pm Film Study Center audio program
Wind Horse and The Queen’s Forest (45 min.) Stephanie Spray
Composed with Nepali cultural idioms in mind, these two pieces are part of a larger sound project made from location recordings in Nepal entitled Blue Sky, White River.
4:30 pm FSC-Radcliffe program
Balconies (8 min.) Kamal Aljafari
An experimental meditation focusing on the deteriorating and unfinished balconies in Palestine.
Floating Weeds (71 min.) Hyun kyung Kim
Portraits of Korean-Chinese workers rushing to South Korea from China in search of their “Korean identities” and the “Korean dream” but facing the harsh reality of a capitalist system.
