INSIDE THE MOMENT
October 11 - November 3, 2012 - Crane Arts, Philadelphia
Curators Tracy Lisk & Anabelle Rodriguez reached out to experimental filmmakers from various parts of the globe to deliver a festival of short films on the subject of TIME.
Some highlights of the festival included:
- New York sensation Martha Colburn
- A 16mm installation and short film with cello accompaniment by Belgian artist Els van Riel
- A selection from the 54th Biennale di Venezia Italo-Latin American Pavilion (IILA) by David Perez Karmadavis from the Dominican Republic
- A selection by Carolina Hellsgård nominated for the Berlin International Film Festival Generation Competition
- A visual poem by Norwegian poet/filmmaker Ottar Ormstad
- An animated video-collage by renowned Nuyorican artist Juan Sánchez
- A short by Hannleena Hauru from Finland
- Vintage shorts by Carles Santos from Barcelona
- Stop-motion animation by Prilla Tania from Indonesia
- New work by James Short & Maurice Wright entitled “Four Instants”
- “Telekinesis” performed by Muhammad Akbar
- A site specific video installation by Rafael Rosario Laguna
- New mixed media piece by Bulgarian/Canadian film-maker Jona Pelovska
- NYC’s Barbara Rosenthal presents a short meditation on “Space and Time”
- Siberia represented by Sergei Potapov’s “Waiting for Gulun”
- Ondřej Hudeček’s surreal “O-Ring” from the Czech Republic
‘Inside the Moment’ was categorized into three major components: Narration, New Sequencing, and ‘Real’ Time. The festival showcased perceptions of time on different planes and in various locales. The films were screened throughout the Crane Arts complex in the ICEbox, the Project Space, and Gallery 102.