| WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 14 9pm
Courthouse Theater ¡Feliz
Quinceañera! Step on out and shake it up tonight as we kick
off our landmark year with an unmissable, cherry-poppin' lineup
of the most bangin' experimental shorts in this year's festival.
Experience all the post-gender, eel-slithering, heartbreaking thrills
as MIX turns 15! The fiesta begins... Curated by the Festival Committee.
Program length 78 min. Join
us after the screening for the Quinceañera Ball at Remote
(327 Bowery, near 2nd St). Free
with Opening Night ticket or festival badge.
Shadow Box • (Pierre-Yves Clouin, 2001, France, video, color, sound, 5 min.) Eros does Thanatos. Looks like the filmmaker's not the only one hanging out in the cemetery. Music Might Have Deceived Us • (Christopher Chong, 2000, Canada, video, b&w, sound, 6 min.) Slices of life pass before our eyes. What do we remember? Where have we been? Hearts Breaking in Slow Motion • (Matthew Stenerson, 2001, USA, 16mm, color, sound, 7 min.) This beautifully gestural short film evokes the roads traveled and the loves lost. Hand Job • (Wrik Mead, 2001, Canada, video, b&w, sound, 3 min.) Gorgeous stop-motion animation revisits early cinema aesthetics and gives new meaning to the term hand-processed. You Take My ••• (Dimitris Stavrogiannis, 2000, Greece, video, b&w, sound, 16 min.) A story of jealousy and odd numbers, eerily shot entirely in night vision with an extraordinary soundtrack. Eels ••• (Patty Chang, 2001, USA, digital video, color, sound, 4 min.) This is supposed to feel good, right? You won't know whether to laugh or scream as Chang, trying hard to stay composed, takes endurance to the limit with the help of some friends in this mesmerizing, unsettling video. Day Million • (Eric Solstein, 2001, USA, video, color, sound, 5 min.) In your most utopian dreams, what is your gender? And what if there weren't any? Let this storyteller explain... WoW ••• (David Dasharath Kalal, 2001, USA, digital video, color, sound, 9 min.) Casting a hypnotic spell that fully bears out the title, Kalal lets the seams of the video show as a means of exposing his artisanal process, and proves himself a finely attuned colorist. If I Had A Hammer (Bobby Abate, 2000, USA, video, color, sound, 11 min.) On the Internet we can redo our sex and sexuality via new channels of exploration and feedback. But what do these corporate communication tunnels filter? And what do we digitize ourselves? She Puppet (Peggy Ahwesh, 2001, USA, video, color, sound, 12 min.) Will the real Lara Croft please stand up? Ahwesh manipulates this sexy heroine and navigates the seemingly surreal catacombs in this exploration of sex, space and the virtual self. |
