The 2nd Primal Digital Microcinema (Primal Cinema)

MC2 @ Pd, Night of May 9th, 2001

Schedule as follows:
8:30pm
Underdog Productions "SocioPath" 10 min
"Mad About Harry" 10 min
9:00
Dylan Collins "The Infinity Gene" p.1 6min
Stefan Raither untitled 7min
Chris Fata Danger/No going back 5min
Nicolas Lockheimers SMACK 10min
Sean P. Morrisey Peter Gunz / Lord Tariq "Deja Vu" 3min
9:30
Cane CapoVolto STEREO: 30 drones for television #0 15'39"

The Cane CapoVolto group
(Alessandro Aiello, Enrico Aresu, Alessandro De Filippo) founded in Catania, Sicily,
as a kind of "philosophical brotherhood".
Originally, their productions were made exclusively in Super-8,
CC began work on the Plagium series, a project based both
on the re-use of visual, literary and aural information
and "cognitive dissonances".
This research was then extended to the Radioplay.
Interest "in the internal mechanism of persuasion"
led to the conceptualizing of the "Constitutional Criminal",
an experiment that investigated in real time the credibility of information.
CC styles itself as a mini-multimedia industry;
its ideas are expressed through films, related publications
(videos,books and CDs) and live "happenings".
STEREO: 30 drones for television #0 15'39"
This is the first installment of a expecially designed project for Television.
Stereo consists of 30 seconds structures filmed in super-8mm, Video 8 and DV.
The 30 drones are all titled, numbered and conceived to work as autonomous organisms
as well as a part of a whole narrative machine;
these sort of boxes contain fiction, stolen-images, still lives, found footage and documetaries fragments.
Because of the episodic, non-linear nature of the project,
Television stations can create their own edit of the work
broadcasting the 30 drones in subgroups of 3,4, or 5 episodes,
or even spread out the entire structure over one,
or several days.
We plan to create a DVD version to be played in the random mode.
Professor Ron Random reminds us that to drone means
to emit a monotonous sound.
Stereo is to Beethoven what Beethoven is to deafness.

10:00pm
Ian Hardy "Ascension," 5min.
The film was shot last summer on location in Philadelphia
by a company called Arjuna Productions, directed by Ian Hardy.
All the post-production work was done out of Paris.
The only place where it was shown so far was a directors preview
in Paris where it was strongly applauded by the audience.
Starring Nelia Vishnesky (who will introduce the film).
Romeo Alaeff "Once," 1995 5min.
This experimental video pulls the rug out from under its own narrative,
tracing the slippery nature of meaning and showing that often we reveal
more through our fictions than when we tell the truth.
Lisa Miller"Masters of Cambodia", 2001, 5min.
5 min preview of work in progress
Masters of Cambodia
Shot by Lisa Miller edited by Jon Smith
Cambodia lost up to 2 million people during the Khmer Rouge Regime,
from 1975 to 1979 and has never fully recovered.
After years of political corruption and poverty
a new conciousness is emerging.
In this project, filmaker Lisa Miller
turns the camera on everyday life and the people
who have endured years of struggle.
10:30 Short Films of the Reel Roundtable
"Rosewater" by Kimi Takesue, 13:05
"Elsewhere" by Brian Drysdale 12:37
"Mutual Love Life" by Robert Peters 11:00
11:00 Jon LaRocca
Trailer Trash:
Re-Workings of Classic Films