BLOCK 9 - EXPERIMENTAL
SAT 9/9 - 1:00 PM - THE MERCHANT ROOM (WALNUT CREEK)
RESURRECTION UNDER THE OCEAN
"Resurrection under the Ocean" is about the resurrection of a man who was helplessly sinking to the bottom of the ocean, after falling to the bottom of the ocean, with a symbolic narrative.
DIR. Serkan Aktaş
RESISTENTIALISM (OR, ON THE MALEVOLENCE OF INANIMATE OBJECTS
In the course of humanity's endeavors there must be an ongoing interaction with the objects that also occupy our common space, objects that are in themselves not in possession of free will, and which are therefore commonly known as inanimate. Yet through the course of any ordinary day any common person will find such objects indeed rising up with apparent intent — with malevolent intent. By what forces are such manifestations created? Resistentialism (or, On the Malevolence of Inanimate Objects) is the third episode of the hit mystery-documentary show What Do We Know? In this episode we examine the manner in which ordinary objects seem to have a will of their own, and it's not pretty.
DIR. Craig Trumbo
BIRDS OF A FEATHER
A Story about roger.
DIR. Colton Ronna
EXPIRE
A man receives canned beans at his house every day for an indefinite period of time.
DIR. nikoo haji mohammadi
BLOOMING FIRE, BURNING FLOWERS, BRIGHT AS SUN
A film about the birth of the universe, made of photograms of flowers on 16mm film.
DIR. Kristen Williams
SLIP THOUGHT
Slip Thought is an experimental animated film and poem which looks to observe and experience the uncertainty of memory, the tender mercilessness of time, and the restlessness of the human experience.
Beginning as a work for a course in OCADU’s experimental animation program, Samuel Wasserman created an abstract “visual text” from mutilated, positive and negative strips of medium format film. Wasserman expanded upon this physical work, creating a mixed media animated short depicting an amorphous thought traveling through the obscurity of time and nonsensical memory.
Posted to the OCADU experimental animation Instagram page, Kate Duggan happened upon Wasserman’s animation, and wrote a poetic accompaniment alongside what she saw for an OCADU poetry course.
As they came together and decided to collaborate, Wasserman and Duggan were shocked to learn about their respective sources of inspiration. Where Wasserman approached the piece as a work depicting time and memory as remembered by a person with dementia, Duggan approached the piece as a work which laments the uncertainty of life as seen by a fetus in the womb. This serendipity is woven through the finished piece, and results in a work that is relentless as it questions all it experiences, but equally contented with the delicacies of life.
DIR. Samuel Wasserman
ARE ROBOTS GOING TO KILL US (OR WHAT)?
This short animated film examines our shared cultural fascination with the "killer robot." It was animated in part by a computer.
DIR. Roger Miller-Kim
PRINTER HEAD
A lowly office worker is thrust into mayhem as he rushes to get an important document printed by the end of the day.
DIR. Frances McIlvain
MEN GRIEVING
Two men. Too many emotions.
Sitting in a waiting room, Harrison and Percy confront their emotions and each other as they attempt to fill out paperwork for an experimental drug that might have the power to take their grief away...forever.
"Men Grieving is an uproarious colonoscopy of male one-upmanship. One surgically crafted and hysterical excavation of bravado, grief and time. It was savage, mordant, and pure cinema as if Malick, Mamet and South Park get into a surreal car accident."
- Mark Pellington (Director of Going All The Way and I Melt With You)
DIR. Adam Peltier