“Local Accomplices" is a screening that brings together a selection of video works + live video performances by Colorado artists. Through their visionary narratives, these artists invite viewers on a thought-provoking journey that encompasses personal recollections, the profound complexities of the land, and the shared stories that shape our collective understanding. Must RSVP above to attend this screening.
Program
Jenna Maurice "it's just the TV"
Documentation of the time when my sisters, dad, and I first discovered the captivating magic of video feedback that happened when our Hi8 video camera was pointed at our television.
Laura Conway "Lass that has gone"
A powerpoint presentation about failure wherein I dig through the discarded hard-drives of my memory. Here is the place where poor file management meets stunted emotionally maturity. Come for the oversharing, stay for the live score by Denver's favorite Fourth World duo Fragrant Blossom.
Jeanne Liotta "Soon it will be too hot"
"Soon It Would Be Too Hot" takes it’s title from the first line of JG Ballard’s 1962 climate-fiction novel "The Drowned World" which vividly describes a dystopic future Earth where the melted polar ice cap floods the living world. "Soon It Would Be Too Hot" is an urgent work about the human relationship to climate change, originally commissioned for projection onto NOAA's Science on a Sphere, a 360 degree media platform for earth science education. This work was created with a barrage of dynamic image- making tools from watercolors and digital animation to current NSIDC satellite visuals and NOAA's CarbonTracker data visualizations, to provoke viewers into an immediate experience of our complex living environment in emergency mode. Current conditions of melting Arctic sea ice brought on by the warming of air and oceans is a direct result of human carbon waste, with numbers continuing to rise. Humans may be as ephemeral as shadows, but carbon emissions are forever. A project of NOAA/ SOS, Eco Arts Connections and CIRES, the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences. Premiered at the Fiske Planetarium, Boulder CO in April 2014 and available to all institutions owning a Sphere. Special thanks to Marda Kirn and Shilpi Gupta of Eco-Arts Connection, to fellow SOS artist Michael Theodore, and to all the scientists and outreach specialists for the projects advisory team: Max Boykoff, Susan Buhr, Susan Lynds, Julienne Stroeve, Pieter Tans, Betsy Weatherhead, and Carol Wessman. note: this video is the "atlas" version of the work -- a flattened version of the media which was originally designed for a spherical surface, much as a map is a flattened version of the Earths spherical shape.
Adán De La Garza "The Desert"
The Desert is a speculative fiction narrative about a near future and the events that lead to the desertification of planet earth.
Kelly Sears "Phase II"
In the near future, real estate developers deploy sonic weapons used at protests to clear neighborhoods for high-end high rises. On the front lines are sound medics that tend to those injured by the assaults. As they respond, one member of the team documents the incidents to create a future archive for other sonic activists. For Phase II, the filmmaker walked around areas of rapid development in her city and took thousands of photographs. This animated, speculative fiction/non-fiction archive maps out more aggressive eviction and deployment tactics to come.
Cherish Marquez "Forage"
There is an abundance of food in the desert, not just for animals but for humans as well. Such as the mesquite tree. It produces mesquite beans which are full of nutrients and were once a vital source of food for indigenous peoples of Mexico and the Southwest. The seeds were crushed to a powder and used to make flour or meal to make bread and other items. Through colonization, these food resources have been forgotten or lost because they did not view the desert as a terrain that could sustain them. Through food, we can reclaim our history, and connect with each other and the land.
Kim Shively "Do I Feel Happy"
A media séance with Marilyn Monroe's voice and image, Do I Feel Happy explores the tormented duality of Marilyn Monroe and her career.
Tobias Fike "I Am Wind v2.0"
In this short video, Fike acts as faux wind, both physically and audibly.
Eileen Roscina "Brown and Holy"
A portrait piece of the United States shot during a cross country bicycle ride that reveals the tensions of mobility and memories while further addressing the youthful ability to travel and the loss of this potential as one ages.
Cyane Tornatzky "Song"
When my son was young, we would sing the familiar children’s song “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star”, meanwhile, the stars and planets above had songs of their own. This piece is a call and response between the old songs of children and the songs of the planets and stars above. Made to echo a song's chorus and verse structure, this video wants us to listen to the sounds of the sky. The sounds we hear in this piece are sounds recorded from space: radio transmissions that are always in the background; sounds recorded by the Cassini spacecraft; the hiss of radio noise from electrons moving along magnetic fields generated by Saturn's Enceladus moon and the sounds of the sun. When we sing to the stars, they are singing back to us.
Soundtrack courtesy of NASA Time-lapse of the night skies courtesy of Jeffery Beach and Michael Wilson www.archive.org Visualizations made with the help of the Signal Culture Maelstrom App. www.signalculture.org
Esther Hz "Raise yourself before you raise your kids"
After the horrible explosion of a home where a friend and I used to live, a box of my family VHS and cassette tapes were salvaged from the rubble. I was unaware that the box had existed due to bizarre family circumstances and was surprised to find it. Orphan Films commissioned a short film to be made from the found footage. Using cut-up style editing with electro-acoustic music that also incorporates recordings from audio cassettes which were discovered in the rubble, “Raise Yourself Before You Raise Your Kids” was compiled. It is common that many families present a facade for society and relatives which is often what is preserved in family albums; in the video, you see one thing but hear another. There is a juxtaposition of private and public. The work is edited to portray contradiction and dysfunction by distorting and pairing the original visual footage with opposing audio.
Jason + Debora Bernagozzi "Pulse"
Pulse is a new video & audio performance by Debora and Jason Bernagozzi exploring connectivity and circulation. The Bernagozzis will be be utilizing pre-recorded sounds and images and live processing them with custom software built by Jason Bernagozzi.
