Steve Zieverink
Good Luck With Your Horn
16 Millimeter Film
00:05:21

Good Luck With Your Horn is a film, performance piece and installation centered around a large, pneumatic brass horn. The film documents a pilgrimage and the experiential landscape via the horn as a mobile device, taking the object from place and locality to non-site. Portrayed is an overwhelming sense of landscape in comparison to one’s self, reflected is the loneness and contemplation experienced in contrast to the vast Great Lake, examined and discovered is romanticism in contemporary art through the exploration of the natural world, and analyzed is our vulnerability in attempting to relate to the overwhelming
power of nature.

Steve Zieverink
November 23rd 2008
HD video
00:21:00

November 23rd, 2008 is an experimental documentary about the dichotomy between established paths – the natural and technological. A running sequence made up of three interwoven parts - land, atmosphere and water- initial images explore the blatant contrast between the simple experience of release and the contradictory, systematic explanation given by science.

Deborah Stratman
In Order Not To Be Here
16 Millimeter Film
00:33:00

An uncompromising look at the ways privacy, safety, convenience and surveillance determine our environment. Shot entirely at night, the film confronts the hermetic nature of white-collar communities, dissecting the fear behind contemporary suburban design. An isolation-based fear (protect us from people not like us). A fear of irregularity (eat at McDonalds, you know what to expect). A fear of thought (turn on the television). A fear of self (don’t stop moving). By examining evacuated suburban and corporate landscapes, the film reveals a peculiarly 21st century hollowness… an emptiness born of our collective faith in safety and technology. This is a new genre of horror movie, attempting suburban locations as states of mind.

Original electronic music by Kevin Drumm.

Mike Morris
Kyrie
MiniDV
00:14:24

Kyrie, named after the first movement of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Great Mass in C Minor, is a collage constructed from images downloaded from the SOHO space telescope and other materials collected from my family’s attics and closets, as well as a meditation on the inheritance of ideas. I loosely sketch my family’s relationship to religion and science in hope of understanding how it
affects my own.

Jesse Mclean
Bearing Witness Trilogy
Part One: “The Eternal Quarter Inch”, 2008, 9:00, Video
Part Two: “Somewhere only we know”, 2009, 5:15, Video
Part Three: “The Burning Blue”, 2009, 9:15, Video
Mini DV


Bearing Witness is a trilogy concerned with how we, as a culture, watch ourselves, especially in moments of great emotional significance. With footage culled from mainstream media and television, the single-channel videos (The Eternal Quarter Inch, Somewhere only we know, The Burning Blue) distill moments of sincerity from perhaps insincere sources (televangelists, reality show contestants, screensavers, B-movies). The three single-channel videos each witness interstitial moments of imminence to challenge spectatorship in American televisual culture, continually shifting the role of the viewer between voyeur and participant.