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SUNDAY MAY 25, 2008
8:00pm
$5.00 general admission
@Space1026
1026 Arch Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
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In consideration of over thirty years of critical feminist studies concerning women as subjects of language, the Free Translators ask: What is your source? What is your Who? Your Where? Your When? Your How? For those of us who do not know, The Free Translators offer an array of possibilities: Miss Reading, Miss Communication, Miss Appropriation, Miss Opportunity, Miss Literacy, Miss Informed and of course… (their own) misgivings. In a world that invents and facilitates endless methods and technologies for successful communication, The Free Translators happily construe known grammars and vocabularies in favor of the barely heard and the incomprehensible with the purpose of uniting the political and poetic in language. Culling from a multitude of conflated narratives, The Free Translators present a program of video screenings deliberately complicating the textual content of our everydaylives and dedicated to the idea that multiple translations continually unhinge single meanings.
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The Wonder of it All
TRT: 20:00 sound
Dir: Mary Billyou
Associated Press photographs are placed, one on top of another, of war, conflict, and border crossings. Over these cut out pictures is
the sound of a nine-year old girl and her mother reading excerpts of Virginia Woolf's anti-war essays. Fireworks, helicopters, skyscraper
views, blimps, and the sound of the television show The Price Is Right create a cacophony of visual and aural highs. This essay film is grounded strictly within the American amnesiac arenas of cash money and the rat race.
Head Lines: Hybrid Films
TRT: 9:00 silent
Dir: Sabine Gruffat
The films in this trilogy were made by cutting up The New York Times newspaper articles. The semi - automated animation process resulted in sentence combinations that sometimes make sense while randomly emphasizing certain words and images.
Each computer animation was transferred to one 100ft roll of 16mm Tri-X reversal film and then hand-processed. The reversal negative is the original.
Perhaps the Singer Is Dead
TRT 6:00 sound
Dir: Mary Billyou
Mary Billyou pieces together found images and a rich soundtrack of words and waves that thought provokingly laments the inability to find an ending.
To the South Was 72
TRT: 11:00 sound
Dir: Sabine Gruffat
“A personal guided tour of the largest prehistoric city north of Mexico…”
This experimental documentary video disorders and recasts an audio tour of a prehistoric site that is visited, preserved and endlessly repeated via prescribed routes and prerecorded narratives. The footage captures the remnants of a lost civilization identifiable only by humble signposts that use an alienating system of letters to mark the space.
Case Study #8
TRT 7:30 sound
Dir: Mary Billyou
Case Study #8 is a documentation of a presentation of the story of A., a young female subject, who is an artist. The video describes a dialogue that took place one afternoon, during which A. discussed a work of art she produced, and her general thoughts on art-making. A. also reveals her frustration in her inability to communicate, and the lack of interest she finds within her relationships with her parents and her friends.
In The Shadow of Your Diamond Castle
TRT: 13:30 sound
Dir: Sabine Gruffat
The Marquis de Sade and his written word (culled from the philosophical diatribes permeating his letters and novels), combined with the critical dialogues of writers and scholars influenced by his work, together provide a heady scent infusing the thoughts and actions of three members of an upper class family. Their summer home is an elegant fortified Provencal estate situated amid a landscape of lavender fields and olive trees, and nestled just below the glowing hilltop chateau once belonging to the Marquis. Wandering the ruins of medieval fortresses and erstwhile chateaus, each character performs monologues relating different facets of Sade’s philosophy while undertaking all the intoxicating pleasures of privacy and affluence before retiring (sooner or later, and according to the laws of Nature), to their inevitable fates.
Out of Space
TRT 11:00 sound
Dir: Sabine Gruffat
In Out of Space, the science fiction cliché addressing ineffectual technology operates as an overarching visual metaphor for loneliness, loss and the breakdown of language. The futile emotionality of the main character endures throughout, existing in stark contrast to the barren quasi-futuristic environment and questioning the productive capabilities of the technological self relative to nature.
Total Running Time: 78:30 minutes
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