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Rahne Alexander
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Nancy Andrews
Nancy Andrews is an enigmatic filmmaker who uses hand-drawn animation, live action animation, and puppetry. Her amazing and precise aesthetic is matched only by the wondrous subject matters she explores: seaside librarians, chalk talks, monkey astronauts, obscure scientific anomalies, and much more. None of this is esoteric for its own sake, Andrews uses these lovely, bizarre, and incredible imaginary worlds to explore rudimentary human issues and questions about the nature of life, science, and reality. More about Nancy: |
Catalog is a composition of stillness—inversion of the spectacle-–actors are posed, recreating various photographs in surroundings unfrozen. The sound track is a labile and dense tale of spaces, royalty and a photograph more mutable than an image should be. |
Daniel Barrow
In his most recent video "Artist Statement," Barrow uses a Commodore computer and mouse to illustrate and animate his "gratuitously honest", personal manifesto. With music by The Ballet. |
Theresa
Columbus
Theresa will also be performing in the festival on Friday 3/28 at the Load of Fun gallery. Theresa Columbus is a performance artist, playwright, and filmmaker. For the last decade, she has toured the country primarily performing short poetic plays with sung or chanted songs and synchronized dance numbers. She also collectively ran an experimental performance space called Darling Hall for 5 years in Milwaukee, WI, where she was one of the founding members of the Tingle Troupe. Radio interview with Theresa Columbus and Didier at the Madison Film Festival: (Interview starts at 43:00) http://www.cinema.wisc.edu/home/filmtalk.htm |
Julia Dzwonkoski and Kye Potter
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Anna Hallin
LUMPY DIVERSITY is an animation that can be shown both as a short film and as an installation using multiple monitors. In an attempt to work with the space that has no out-side, like in dreams, the idea (principle) of resonance has been in focus, that every object in the universe is animated or otherwise vibrates. The movements of the animated shapes are wiggling, as objects touch and veer away and slip over and past one another, consume or fornicate, depending on size and their need for submission or domination. The shapes, figures and characters are inspired by various aroused organic life forms. To reach the logic of a dream landscape, the animation is built up by themes that are connected rather than a linear narrative. With an original soundtrack by VEKTORMUSIK: http://www.vektormusik.dk/ Anna's website: http://this.is/ahallin/ |
Derek Jarman
Many
of Jarman’s
films are available on VHS, and this film is available on DVD
from the Criterion Collection. For more information
about Derek Jarman visit www.slowmotionangel.com. |
Rebecca Reynolds
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Deirtra Thompson  Deirtra
Thompson uses drawings, film, and video to investigate the behavior
and power dynamics of women within groups. Her work often relies
on the combination of research and found materials as a starting
foundation. Her current work, Triangle Films, has merged her long-term
preoccupation with personal memory and public monuments into a project
that explores the complicated perception of women military figures.
Filmed in 16mm and Super 8, each of the five episodes of Triangle
Films is accompanied by sound re-mixed from Alfred Hitchcock's The
Lodger and includes texts inspired by celebrity memoirs and news
transcripts. Thompson lives and works in Baltimore. |
Rahne Alexander is a songwriter & comedian from Baltimore. She is a regular emcee of the Charm CIty Kitty Club and performs regularly with her garage rock band The Degenerettes. In 2005 she released her debut CD, Blonde on Bum Trip. Her solo and collaborative performances have appeared across US with the Tranny Roadshow, Transmodern Age, Baltimore Pride, Gender Crash, and Dark Odyssey. Alexander regularly profiles artists for the Baltimore Gay Life newspaper. 
"The Dreamless Sleep" is the
second film in Andrews' Ima Plume trilogy (the first film of
which, "Monkeys and Lumps" was screened at the 2006
Transmodern Age festival film night). The film features Ima
Plume, public illustrator and purveyor of "chalk-talks," and
relates brief biographies of historical figures, like Else Bosselman,
who drew underwater creatures as described by William Beebe
from the windows of the bathysphere, and Christine the Astonishing,
a medieval woman mystic. Andrews combines drawn animation, live-action,
and puppetry in what MoMA curator Laurence Kardish has called "artisinal
- beautiful in its homespuness, expressive in its miscellany
of hand-made images, whether drawn, animated, or acted, and
sly in its humor." 
Since 1993, Daniel Barrow has used an overhead
projector to create and adapt comic book narratives to a "manual" form
of animation by projecting, layering and manipulating drawings on
Mylar transparencies. Barrow variously refers to this practice as
graphic performance, live illustration, or manual animation. He
has used this technique to create performances, videos and installations
that have been exhibited widely in venues including The Museum of
Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), New Langton Arts (San Francisco),
and The Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver).
The excerpt shown at the festival is from
Chaza Show Choir, a film depicting the musical adventures of
a plucky high school choir and band members in a tale of theater-love,
deceit, capture, and romance. Resonant with the "Tell Me
More" number from "Grease," this scene explores
some explicit aspects of sex, attraction, bodies, repulsion,
camaraderie, and synchronized dance moves, as the group gets
dressed in a locker room on the night of their spring concert.
Two
American kids, bluescreened into a war zone.
ANNA
HALLIN is an artist who lives and works in Reykjavik, Iceland.
She works with sculpture, photography, drawing and animation.
Lately her work has revolved around taking a peek behind the wallpaper
and to look at the interplay between the inside and the outside
of a wall. Each one of us is a space in which thoughts and images
from multiple sources are assembled, an area where an encounter
with the unthought is possible. Her most recent work shown at
The Living Art Museum in Reykjavík is about a journey of
the self in the space where the room can be evasive and sneak
away, walls turn themselves inside out or disappear and the relationship
between the walls and the essence of the gap "in-between" emerges.
Experimental British filmmaker
Derek Jarman (1942-1994) made Jordan’s
Dance on super 8 film in 1977, in London. Jarman later used the
film in his historical/political epic-slash-punk/new-wave feature
film Jubilee, a benchmark of British independent cinema, and a film
as ambitious and extravagant as Jordan’s Dance was spontaneous
and simple. Jarman was a fearless and visionary artist much-loved
by our friend, Peter Zahorecz. This evening of screenings is dedicated
to Peter, and we bring you this excerpt of Jordan’s Dance
as a special tribute to freedom and daring, and to Peter and Jarman,
both widely, and wildly, adored and missed men.
Filmmaker
Rebecca Reynolds uses cinematic "parlor tricks" to
construct and pervert systems of logic with surreal and provocative
imagery. In her latest film, Concrete, in-camera effects, projections
and optical printing are used to create a layering of images that,
together with voice over, systematically rework narrative fragments
into a final simplified conclusion. Here there are no boundaries
between the past and present, the sacred and erotic, the real and
imagined. They all exist on the same plane, leaving one with an
awareness of something familiar yet sinister- a feeling of being "in
the know" of something that cannot be defined.
2006 (c) Transmodern Age, Inc. All Rights Reserved. All images not related to bios were taken by Mike Muniak and Stewart Mostofsky. Drawings by Jackie Milad