Artists in Person
Opening with strangers and closing with friends, this program highlights exemplary work by a fresh crop of UC Berkeley filmmakers. Strangers: An Image of Disintegration reworks a roadtrip narrative to examine the fragility of memory, while the tactile 100 Pets recalls YouTube videos with its mix of intimacy and performance. Old People Driving is a documentary study of two motorists as they approach one hundred. The hypnotic Over There Somewhere heightens perceptual discovery through rapid cutting, while in the stop-motion animation Fly, movement is a function of evolving line and form. The atmospheric music video Catch the Moon conveys its story through song, whereas the letter of Dear friends, is a poignant examination of war and its effect. Sami’s Cock is a nod to the Iraqi tradition of oral storytelling, an approach to language that is countered by the visual syntax of Chinese characters in the portrait piece You Look Like Your Mother. Delicately shifting between intimacy and remoteness, clarity and disjunction, this diverse program exposes the youthful sincerity and boldness of Cal’s new cinematic visionaries.—Sarah Bonnickson, Kelsa Trom
Strangers: An Image of Disintegration (Mike Harris, 2010, 12 mins). Over There Somewhere (Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck, 2010, 9 mins, Color/B&W). 100 Pets (Jonathan T. Wang, 2010, 3:30 mins). Old People Driving (Shaleece Haas, 2010, 24 mins). Fly (Christine Chia, 2010, 1 min). Catch the Moon (Esau Hamadanyan, 2010, 4:30 mins). Sami’s Cock (George Larkin, 2010, 4:30 mins). You Look Like Your Mother (Lillian Guo, 2009, 6 mins). Dear friends, (David Wallace, 2010, 7 mins)
• (Total running time: c. 71 mins, Color, Digital video, From the artists, unless otherwise indicated)
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