Summer Camp For Video Artist’s Big Exhibition Show: It’s Projecting a Big Hot Video Mess
Friday, July 25, 2025
6:00 pm to 11:00 pm
@glob
3551 Brighton Blvd
Denver, CO 80216
Curated by: John Golter
This one night event is free and be sure to check out Squirm Gallery (next door) and Friend of A Friend a few blocks away. All will have openings this same night!
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Statement:
"Summer Camp for Video Artists Big Exhibition" openly grapples with the challenges of what is defined as traditional animation or narrative video. The works of this group showing will showcase the realized potential and future of what this medium can really hold with bounds unlimited.
Charles de Graaf "Against the Tide" (Mexico)
This is a poetic observation of the emergence and development of movements that challenge hegemonic traditional culture in a small town on the Mexican coast.
World Premiere
Chrissy Espinoza "What Isn't There" (USA)
Experimental video with 2D Animation elements. The video features an absence shaped like a figure, which barely moves. It just is, as though it's always been there. And when you stare too long, you begin to remember things that never happened.
Colorado Premiere
John Golter "Tele-Nouvelles" (USA)
Tele-Nouvelles follows a small town Canadian news broadcast as it navigates the cultural challenges and clashes of a rural town on the constant verge of economic collapse. The animated project mirrors and mocks its Southern neighbors but with a more obvious "communal" base of society.
World Premiere
Milton "PTX" (USA)
World Premiere
Thomas Nelsen "Feedback Loop" (USA)
Feedback Loop explores our relationship to technology, fringe ideas, and commercials. In 2023, the US Surgeon General declared an epidemic of loneliness. Simultaneously, we find ourselves diving deeper and deeper into echo chambers of conspiracy theory, misinformation, and fear-mongering. Every click on a hyperlink and second lapsed on an ad feeds cyberspace algorithms that work by design to keep us hypnotized by our screens. Talking heads and influencers are successful by providing the illusion of intimacy that is otherwise deeply lacking in the flesh. Would conspiracy theories and misinformation spread the same way if we weren’t so significantly lonely? What makes otherwise rational and educated people fall into cesspools of dangerous rhetoric that make them act against their own self-interest - and who reaps the benefits? This short film takes inspiration from science fiction, body horror, and Saturday morning cartoons.
Mitchell Pond "Daedelus - Sunflower Stems" (USA)
The official music video for the Daedelus single Sunflower Stems from their 2020 LP What Wands Won’t Break. This piece combines hand-drawn rotoscope animation with circuit-bent analog video glitch effects run through a vintage CRT broadcast monitor.
