HIGHSPEED DRIFT
Jacqueline Castel, 4 min, video, 2009, USA

“This video for Brooklyn-based futuristic psychedelic band Gary War was shot on location at Fort Tilden, a now defunct military base hidden in the hills off a beach in Queens, New York. Inspired by paranoid dreams and sweltering summer days, this music video follows an unexplained sci-fi mirror cult and a bizarre series of beachside happenings.” (JC)

FANTASY SUITE
Kent Lambert

“A meditation on mainstream American heterosexual romance.” (KL)

THREE RAVENS
Bobby Abate, 10min, video, 2009, USA

“Ravens, the kind you never see. They keep careful watch and fix their ears. Outside a nursing home, they spy on an old woman desperately phoning her daughter. “What?” The woman leans forward, but hears nothing. A mantle clock chimes. The ravens catch the sound of a soap opera organ sustained over a softly voiced threat, “I’m having him killed…” The ravens eavesdrop, “Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you.” The ravens wait for the time to come. Blow out the candle. Switch off the light. Look out the window. Wither down.” (BA)

SINCERITY: THE CHARACTER OF RONALD REAGAN
Chris Royalty, 6 min, video, 2010, USA

“SINCERITY draws upon White House Military Office footage from 1984 and 1985 surrounding Ronald Reagan's re-election to the presidency, and examines issues of authenticity, privacy, and performance in the maintenance of a public identity. “ (CR)

54 DAYS THIS WINTER 36 DAYS THIS SPRING FOR 18 MINUTES Dani Leventhal, 16 min, video, 2009, USA

“Dani gathered material for 9 minutes each day, then condensed it down to this 16 minute video montage of impressions which has a cumulative effect, accessed and read differently depending on the mental connections the viewer makes. It is presented as short scenes: documentation of the quotidian, on-camera monologues, and performative or expressive shots that are constructed. The material, while mostly generated as a diary, is heterogeneous enough to include just about any kind of footage.” (VDB)

MORE IS ALWAYS ON THE WAY
Bryan Boyce, 11 min, Video, 2010, USA

"An evocative tour of the signs of our times." (BB)

ART APPRECIATION
Eric Fleischauer, 4 min, Video, 2009, USA

“Handled with a delicacy that defies a read of art-iconoclasm, as the title suggests, these videos enact the interior experience of processing a work of art. Here, the connection sought after is a provoked by longing, desire, and validation, as well as an increasing de-materialization of personal experiences. .” (EF)

CHARADES
Ann Steuernagel, 7 min, video 2009

“The creation of “Charades” was compelled by California’s passage of Proposition 8 which eliminated same-sex couples' right to marry. This found footage piece is a celebration of boy/girl identity and lesbian sexuality.” (AS)

SEVEN SONGS ABOUT THUNDER
Jennifer Reeder, 20 min, video, 2010

“When A young woman with remarkable and hilarious coping skills finds the dead body of a teenage girl in the woods she is forced to reconcile her greatest fear--her fantastically failing life. This is a dark comedy about a mother, a daughter, a liar and her therapist.” (JR)