© samantha krukowski cinematexas 2006 catalog essay program 3

Preface, Gerard Holthuis, The Netherlands An unmoving portrait bust, age twelve, necklace draped behind a sparkling dress, mirrored right and left, perhaps tiled up and down as well. An individual, a pattern, the relationship between the two. Is she moving? A Bill Viola stand-in, when we look away she may be different. Perhaps the difference is already inside of us, sitting judged by her unwavering and intense stare. Fade to (white). Another figure, more urchin, less sure. Face turned left again, eyes focused right. Divided attention, repeated. Conversations between the still and the moving image, action rendering the differences poignant and changing the starting point of view. These are sweet faces, denied their fleshly colors, set in a background that might be foliage were it not so uniform. Details and nostalgia. Curled hair obscuring an eye, a small-toothed smile, the knot at the top of a pair of overalls. Time elapsed marks a figure’s resistance to the frame, corporeal reaction, a strengthening wind, the arrival of helicopters and dread. Because of the War things were Changing, Jennet Thomas, United Kingdom Somebody scratched a title on these vertical bands of activated chlorophyll and let the light shine through. The mirror again, but the two frame the one, Mr. Rogers in an orange suit. The impregnated time bomb, the pesticide toast, the disembodied relationship, the loss of hunger. Ladies and gentleman, let me introduce you to your wartime guide. Can you wash it away, make music of it? Can you find a taller, or a shorter man, to do something, or at least explain it all? Should irrigation be overhauled, sushi be sterilized? Late at night, the hole diggers and the trophy wrappers in the midst of bird calls, the rustling of cheap paper reflected in oversized eyeglasses. Comfort is found in envelopment, closure and a code, the delivery, receipt and identified interment of same. How does your garden grow and what will it fetch at market? A tune and a smile and a yellow burning effigy, happily relocated neurons and disembodied memories, the disconnect between present and future (change will set you free.) But then there are bodies, thickly coated and contorted, watched by greening eyes and fading silhouettes, maneuvered by strings and the feeling of love. Have a light? Patriotic, Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay | Pascal Lievre, Canada A singalong, you know the tune! Don a hat and a uniform and a letter, shoulders back, chin up, eyes raised to the sky…ready? Think brotherhood, recall the designs of enduring wartime memorials, wear pink, hip to the beat! Coming soon to clubs and karaoke bars near you! Jean Genet in Chicago, Frédéric Moffet, USA City slowed in a fisheye, a cutout expressionless head with signs, papers, camera, remote control, cigar, dictaphone, a wardrobe of t-shirts. Captured historical phrases transform as contemporary beats, slogans, exchanges. Voices of officialdom and rebellion, protestors and their prosecutors shown and shown again while Ginsburg and Burroughs and Genet appear and disappear. Speed, slowness, repetition. Genet’s biography overlaid on newspaper clippings and political documents, echoes of the past in the now (democracy, oppression, enemy, imprisonment, homosexual, racism, the people, poetry, drugs, revolt) rephrased in the midst of his political and personal preoccupations. A requiem, a police motorcycle, a bright blinding light, titles and quotes, a crowd, a mob, yoga poses, the faces of believers, the sound of licking flames. Remaking Jane Fonda, Scott Stark, USA Warm Up Work Out Cool Down with Jane Fonda the Cheerleader Activist Sets: parking lot, living room, balcony, ballfield, ocean cliff, sidewalk, highway overlook Props: television, cars, Malcolm X poster, rain, John and Yoko billboard, American flag Characters: class members, athlete, construction worker, shopper, tai chi practitioners (vertical) The two countries of Vietnam; international boundary setting; coming home to a foreign land; revolution; democracy, Bill of Rights, dishonorable and honorable discharge, soldiers, Nixon, war criminals, freedom, technology, death, weapons, innocents, liberation (horizontal) guilt; denial; kotex; institutional truth; sexual domination; pleasure; happiness; belonging; belief and consequences; politics and lies; patriarchy; softness; hatred; violence; tolerance; compliance; rage; fantasy; bulimia; individuality; addiction; spirit; vulnerability; consumer culture; breast implants Our Brightly Shining Future, Ray Sweeten, USA Spirograph logarithms Neurological testing Spaceship Soundings Signal receipt Mission control Transcription Proximity report Screen saver symphony