Film Database Submission April 2011

Bukowski at Bellevue (1995) landmark poetry reading

Resubmitting
The Message (2009 China)
Director: Chen Kuo-fu, Gao Qunshu

Rasta Rockett (1993)
Jon Turteltaub
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Rasta Rockett (1993)
Jon Turteltaub

Crazy Little Thing Called Love (Sing Lek Lek Thee Riak Wa … Ruk)
Thailand, 2010
Director: Putthiphong Promsakha na Sakon Nakhon

The Burning Blue
dir. Jesse McLean
USA
Video
2009
9min

Part three of The Bearing Witness Trilogy

“’he Burning Blue’ is a video that observes the thrill, terror and boredom found in watching mass spectacles and the unexpected loneliness when you miss them. Concerned with how we, as a culture, watch ourselves, especially in moments of great emotional significance, this video speaks of both the power and the failure of the televised experience to bind us to one another.

Kisaragi (Japan, 2007)
Director: Yuichi Sato

Dororo (Japan, 2007)
Director: Akihiko Shiota

Climbing
dir. Jesse McLean
USA
Video
2009
1:30 loop

This video (along with Marching Ants and Magic Wand) was installed together as part of a solo show titled Invisible Tracks. In the work, a variety of recent images of Iraq, all gleaned from varying Internet sources, are pulled apart, blurred, erased, delineated and reassembled in an effort to negotiate the convoluted relationship of spectatorship to empathy. The underlying structure of the application Adobe Photoshop, popular software used for retouching and manipulating photographic images, is revealed by the representation of several procedural tools, such as the magic wand selector, the clone tool and the checkered backgrounds that connote transparency. Used to adjust the image prior to its final presentation, (the final gesture of which is richly called “flattening”) and typically hidden from view, these tools instead become incorporated into the images, a reminder that these images are capable of being altered continuously, from the photojournalist’s chosen composition, to the method used to deploy the images, to the hand of the artist, myself.

Somewhere Only We Know
dir. Jesse McLean
USA
Video
2009
5 min

What can a face reveal? Balanced between composure and collapse, individuals anxiously await their fate.

The Eternel Quarter Inch
dir. Jesse McLean
USA
Video
2008
9 min

Rising fundamentalism and a government that cites faith to defend war actions have helped grow a desperate society. Dipping between ecstasy and despair, transcendence and absurdity, this movie journeys to a hidden space where you can lose your way, lose yourself in the moment, lose your faith in a belief system. An exhausted and expectant crowd waits on this narrow span. It is not a wide stretch, but it can last forever.

Shinobi (Japan, 2005)
Director: Ten Shimoyama

From Me to You / Kimi ni Todoke (Japan, 2010)
Director: Naoto Kumazawa

Parse dar meh(A Walk in the Fog)(2010)
Directed By:Bahram Tavakoli

yek habe ghand(A cube of sugar)(2011)
Directed By:Seyyed Reza Mir-Karimi

A Cross the Universe
dir. Romain Gavras
France, 2008

Child of Resistance (1973)

DIR Haile Gerima

The Women’s Quarter (1966)

DIR Kamran Shirdel

Iluminados por el fuego (Blessed By Fire)
Argentina
2005
Dir. Tristán Bauer

Domingo à Tarde (António de Macedo, Portugal, 1966)

DA NAO TIAN GONG

Director: Wan Laiming, Shanghai Animation Film Studio, 1965

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You’re Not My Father
2008
Paul Slocum

No Holds Barred
1989
Thomas J. Wright

Goofy’s Glider
Jack Kinney
United States 1940

The Pointer
Clyde Geronimi
United States 1939

Donald’s Dog Laundry
Jack King
United States 1940

double post

The Practical Pig
Dick Rickard
United States 1939

Good Scouts
Jack King
United States 1938

Tendida mirando las estrellas (2004, Andrés Racz)