Concrete Jungle – 2017

show title: Concrete Jungle
Competition Shorts
Saturday, April 8, 3:00 PM

In Marfa
Director: Jeremy Moss
Experimental
3 min
USA

Created in-camera in Marfa, TX on a freezing day in January on expired film with my Bolex while the sun was setting.

Return to Forms
Director: Zachary Epcar
Experimental
10 min
USA

A constellation of objects, each emerging into the soft peach-light void of an indeterminate condominium space.

Les Châssis de Lourdes
Director: Rhayne Vermette
Experimental
18 min
Canada

An architectural threnody composed through a falsified genealogy of image making and various “true stories” of Lourdes. What time is it? No time to look back.

Unknown Hours
Director: Calum Walter
Experimental
10 min
USA

An observer journeys down a main street in Chicago towards a neighborhood known for its nightlife. The moving image is slowed to reveal the intermittence of street lights and sports bar televisions. A camera peers into the moments between events.

Sight Unseen
Director: Diane Nerwen
Experimental
7 min
USA

A multi-layered reverie that merges shot and found images of New York City into a dislocated screenscape. City walkers stroll dreamily through hazy streets where images are more real than the city itself.

Illusion
Director: Maxime Contour
Experimental
5 min
France

This New-York is different: it’s a huge movie set without depth. Here, all people have a strange, mesmerizing and confusing characteristic.

News from the Sun
Director: Brendan & Jeremy Smyth
Experimental
4 min
USA

An apocalyptic narrative unfolds through a British tabloid created by media mogul Rupert Murdoch. 4000 single frames are exposed and accompanied by pulsing rhythms of the sun collected by NASA, resembling the Buddhist “Om”, the sound of our universe.

Node
Director: Turner Adornetto
Experimental
7 min
USA

Astute city film, an observational urban poem.

Speculations
Director: Ben Balcom
Experimental
18 min
USA

An affective portrait of place. An exploration of the city as abstraction.