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Abate, Bobby
- the greasy, vain, trend-obsessed chaos of the New York experience
- Alshaibi, Usama
- from Baghdad to Chicago, crossing cultural boundaries
- Angela Alston
- a curious lament and some sensual imagery
- Alvarez, Alfonso
- cross-referencing cultures with optically-printed experimentation
- Ahwesh, Peggy
- approaching culturally complex issues and individuals with disarming simplicity and intelligence
- Alperin, Leslie
- carryovers from painting, feminism and film theory.
- Angerame, Dominic
- from personal diary to passionate abstraction.
- Arnold, Bob
- Echolalia, Zeno's Paradox and other conundrums
- Auger, Pascal
- pour enrichir notre monde, en inventer un petit bout
- Axmondo
- video paintings, images, sounds, a dry space beyond the tide
- Baillie, Bruce
- musings, remedies and inspirations from one of cinema's pioneer lyricists
- Baldwin, Craig
- copyright infringement is your best entertainment value.
- Barker, Hayley
- the spectacle of the female body and emotional/psychological states
- Barker, Phillip
- capturing the soul in an image
- Barten, Rebecca
- from 17 Typewriter Films to 700 Measured Sprays.
- Beekman, René
- seeing and not seeing, perceiving and not perceiving, experiencing the grey-area in between
- Behrens, Jon
- atmospheric, seductively alienating and sometimes disturbing work filled with timelapse cinematography, multiple exposures and film solorization
- Beloff, Zoe
- getting beneath the skin of everyday life, using half-forgotten media technologies.
- Berliner, Alan
- films, installations, new media; mining the found and the formal for personal moments
- Betancourt, Michael
- using literalized puns, double meanings, and uncertain conclusions to address how the audience understands what they see/hear
- Beauvais, Elise
- meditative, thematic, rhythm-based, cyclical ways of communicating
- Beauvais, Yann
- slicing through landscapes and memory
- Biermann, Gregg
- apocrypha, pseudepigrapha, or maybe the gnostic gospels of the avant-garde cinema
- Biller, Anna
- restaging the stagier aspects of cinema
- Brand, Bill
- a widening field of systems including the social, biological and psychological system of the body as subject
- Brakhage, Stan
- reviews, interviews, and articles by and about the great cinema pioneer, compiled by writer Fred Camper
- Brose, Lawrence F.
- holding up a mirror to gay sexuality and plumbing its tensions with controlled image manipulation and extremely experimental hand-processing techniques
- Broussard, Rene
- appropriated video diaries and documentaries
- Brynntrup, Michael
- film diary, non-linear film for interactive media, homo erectus, loverfilms, more
- Calvo, Clemente
- cinearte como medio en el que integrar fotografía, artes plásticas, poesía, música e ideas
- Carolfi, Jerome
- humor, irony and a fluid, often jazz-like sensibility convey an intimate and connected energy at work
- Caudill, Craig
- controlled by bees and other living substances
- Chartier, Russell
- video art and installations
- Christ, Joe
- for starters, try sex blood mutilation kill the pigs speed freaks with guns and communion in room 410
- Chutiwongpeti, Sarawut
- video art and installations from Bangkok, exploring intimacy and emotion
- Clouin, Pierre Yves
- always begin the workout with a short warm-up.
- Colcord, Webster
- aggressively strange subject matter
- Comerford, Thomas
- pinhole motion picture cameras and found/homemade noise machines
- Connolly, Stephen
- inking, scraping, and scratching film to connect to the natural rhythms of the physical world
- Crane, Cathy Lee
- ficitional memoirs, colliding histories, sensual dreamscapes
- Cseri-Briones, Pia
- making the viewer a more active participant in the filmic experience via visual, emotional and mental stimulation
- Cutrone, Christopher
- reveries on interracial male homosexuality, enacting the imbrication of fantasy and memory
- d, eddie
- installations and web pages with interactive sound and images
- Deal, Kevin
- invoking the wonders of the natural world through cinematic ritual
- DiLillo, Lisa
- videos, performances and photos dealing with themes of memory, myopia, media mishaps and much much more
- Dixon, Wheeler Winston
- experimentation with sound and image categorizes the emotional levels of interior narratives
- Doing, Karel
- personal stories and poetry from Rotterdam
- Dougherty, Cecilia
- narcissistic transference, sexual dependency, super-models, tiny kittens, car crashes and explosions, women with machine guns, the ocean, beautiful flowers, counfounding Freud
- Fadiman, Dorothy
- radiance and the experience of light
- Filmgruppe Chaos
- a collective of Super-8 filmmakers. The group has produced short experimental- and animationfilms as well as a documentary and a featurefilm
- Finkelstein, David
- video performances which combine meticulously crafted computer-generated imagery with improvised text and music
- Finley, Jeanne C.
- exploring the relation between the document and the documented, fiction and fact, empathy and irony
- Fotopolous, James
- mysticism, the paragon of animals, monster babies, snail shell textures, tumors
- Fox, Robert
- cross-stitching medical imagery with the human psyche
- Friedrich, Su
- exploring lesbian adolescence, marriage, fatherhood, family relations, motherhood, closeted romance and that sink or swim paradigm
- Frye, Brian
- an original and devotional approach to cinematic substance... to discover in the analysis of the individual moment the crystal of the total event
- Fulbeck, Kip
- multiracial explorations in contemporary video
- Furman, Doron
- video art linking femininity with social violence, technology, and deviance
- Galush, John
- producing blockbusters on a shoestring
- Gazzo, Monica
- visual poetry, originality and intimacy while challenging issues of gender and race
- Gehr, Ernie
- film is a real thing and as a real thing it is not imitation.
- Geyer, Anna
- birth, rebirth, demolition and reconstruction through multi-layered imagery
- Hall, David
- the physical reality of TV as a site of exchange, a creator of illusion, a channel of information, or what Baudrillard terms 'a screen of ecstatic refraction'
- Halm, Patrick
- how to explain telivision to a dead hare
- Hammer, Barbara
- making the invisible lost histories, visible; radical montage, Situationist comedy, a history lesson for all
- Hanisch, Annette
- videofilms, sculptures, installations; who needs a hero?
- Higgins, Janene
- videos and performance collaborations on childhood trauma, desolation, hallucinating nuns, & hair removal
- Hills, Henry
- keeping the rhythms irregular and the progression of imagery and ideas unpredictable, to mimic the rhythms of my own body and mind
- Hockenhull, Oliver
- heaven and architecture, beautiful jews, and digital musings
- Hubbard, Jim
- cinematic images do not erase life with stereotypes but let life live on, somewhere else, outside the screen.
- Johnson, James W.
- angels in a pig's eye
- Jones, William
- pornographic yet chaste, distanced yet mesmerizing, reticent yet moving
- July, Miranda
- the expected is replaced by something surprising, yet remains rich with emotional resonance
- Katz, Leandro
- alternating between ephemeral evocations and documentary reporting
- Kless, Larry
- exploring the mythical frontiers of western culture and the romanticism of colonialism
- Klonaris, Maria
- a transcultural reflection on body, memory, ritual, dream, mythological figures
- Konefsky, Bryan
- Freedom Land. My parents never took me, they said it was too far.
- Kren, Kurt
- counteracting the mimetic abundance of cinema with brittle mathematical principles, a witty imagination and a roughly formalized sensuality
- Krumins, Daina
- meticulously crafted surrealist animations blending natural shapes and real objects
- Iimura, Takahiko
- playfully articulating the vocabulary of cinema through human speech.
- Laitala, Kerry
- medical mischief and mayhem
- Lake, Ellen
- obsessions with collecting and collections
- Laurent La Gamba
- Camouflages and pro-cryptic installations
- Larcher, David
- intoxicating imagery taking you beyond the rational
- Lattanzi, Barbara
- digital movies on and off the net
- Lesser, Tom
- cinema becomes the thread passing on its ghosts and providing a soul for the new digitial mediums
- Lewin, Anya
- the subtle tones of camp
- Lewis, Ryan
- lingering ghosts, punk bands and dying love in the Sunshine State
- Lidell, Erik
- culture jamming with a variety of media
- Liotta, Jeanne
- makes films and other cultural ephemera, media mystic, collaborator, anarchist, mother, and believer...
- Lord, Chip
- video essays and installations on car culture and technological homogenization
- Ma Fish Co
- faux foreign videos and diasporic tales of ancient roman curses
- Machet, Cari
- ornamental bathing
- Marton, Pier
- from performance art to documentary essays, with an effort towards unmasking our blind spots
- McClelland, Pete
- grey is good, with or without bifocals
- McCormick, Matt
- finding meaningful art in the unlikeliest of places
- McDougall, Marina
- If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home By Now.
- McKenna, Laurie
- "You sure he's dead?" I said. "yeah he's dead, two years ago."
- Menkes, Nina
- harrowing, hallucinatory journeys
- Mercado, Marcello
- polythene/within nitrogen limits/squeezing-cutting/cleaning-polishing/crushing/crack!-crack!
- Metcalfe, Rohesia Hamilton
- asking us to look again at things we might have thought we knew already
- Michaud, Hans
- involuntary jumps made by the eyes from one point to another
- Miron, Francois
- optical extravaganza; the process is the film, the film is the process, the two are the same
- Moricz, Bob
- low grade high carnage action shorts
- Moritsugu, Jon
- mod fuck explosion fame whore
- Moore, Andy
- a blend of structural and personal concerns; a deep interest in the grammar of cinema and music.
- Mosvold, Frank
- the agony created by internalized homophobia; the relationship between one's faith and one's sexual orientation
- Munro, David
- Shimmering allegories for post-modern lovers. Toss another log on the fire...then jump in!
- Muse, John
- exploring the relation between the document and the documented, fiction and fact, empathy and irony
- Nicholls, Graham
- film, video, installations dealing with place, voyeurism, language and expression
- Nigrin, Al
- a long-time maker and promoter of experimental film
- Odell
- blending nature, humanity and technology
- Pizzi, Peter Anthony
- magical stories in personal video
- Platt, Lisa
- humor, camp, parody, identification... how we come to know ourselves through so many images
- Plotnick, Danny
- gimme Super-8 or Gimme Death!
- Pound, Stuart
- poetry with video
- Povey, Thad
- found footage and physical processes; filmmaking is a medium to articulate the unspeakable.
- Price, Seth
- an experiment in purposefully bad web design
- Ravett, Abraham
- forging intersections between personal histories and historical events
- Raxlen, Rick
- Victoria, BC's veteran of experimental film
- Razutis, Al
- persistence of the avant-garde praxis and 'anarchist' sentiments
- Reilly, Jack
- straddling the razor sharp edge of hollywood
- Rekow, Leanne
- here, there, everywhere... also here
- Rekveld, Joost
- the technological history of media as a pool of meaningful, human motives, comparable to myths
- Richardson, Emily
- the cinematic apparatus being an extension of the body
- Rice, Terri
- good stuff from planet out
- Rodriguez, Dinorah de Jesús
- coaxing strength from the creative unconscious
- Sachs, Lynne
- exposes the limitations of verbal language by replacing it with complex emotional and visual vistas; her intricately layered films explode the borders between genres, discourses, racialized identities, psychic states and nations
- Saks, Eric
- a prank without theory is merely a hoax
- Sanborn, Keith
- Something is Seen But One Doesn't Know What.
- Schaller, Robert
- investigations into technology, culture, and history
- Schell, Michael
- synthesized imagery and music, exploring the relationship between sign and object in contemporary society
- Schlemowitz, Joel
- incantations, photochemical processes, cine-poems and eye music
- Scipio, Richard
- gen-x love stories, tragicomedies, gangsters
- Sharits, Paul
- "one of the true masters of modern film"
- Sher, Elizabeth
- keeping you off balance with infusions of satire, abstraction, surrealism and whimsy
- Silver, Shelly
- small lies and big truths
- Smith, Jack
- vanguard filmmaker, radical photographer, seminal performance artist, queer saint
- Smith, Lee
- a one-man film factory
- Smith, Michele
- heavily edited frame by frame collage/montage/hand painted/ripped/cut/etched found footage
- Snider, Greta
- following the impulse to document/discuss ideas that may fall through the cracks, or be uncertain and fleeting
- Soe, Valerie
- racial discrimination, intimate interpersonal relationships and ostracization.
- Spear, Chelsea
- zine publisher turned filmmaker
- Stark, Scott
- urban sabotage, camera as musical instrument, and walking with God.
- Street, Mark
- ranging from abstract hand-manipulated material to work that recontextualizes found footage, tofilms that involve written texts
- Supak, Corbin
- live porn chat, NASDAQ arcades, rogue indie bands, apartment cafes...
- Sunkisch
- art is trash -- trash is art
- Sykes, Barbara
- video poems blending with ethnographic documentaries, exploring Hinduism, holy men, spirituality and transcendence
- Taleb, Aziz
- penetrating video art from Morocco
- Talukdar, Shashwati
- journeys of an amused and horrified postcolonial lady
- Tape-Beatles, The
- audio and visual playfulness, all created from found sources
- Tarr, Simon
- anxiety about people and technology
- Tartaglia, Jerry
- gay consciousness, sexual representation, self-identity and visual metaphor
- tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- psychic slippages, conceptual ponderings, neo-cosmic blatherings and a full battery of bad puns
- Thomadaki , Katarina
- a transcultural reflection on body, memory, ritual, dream, mythological figures
- Thorstenson, Skye
- blogs, baghead boys and burnt norton
- Toman, Mary Ann
- the inherent strangeness of the mundane and the given, exploring language, gender and everyday landscapes
- Tucker, Chantelle
- film as therapy through neurofeedback
- Varela, Willie
- sublime super-8 and more from one of the masters of the medium
- Walsh, Jack
- fan letters to Rock, retelling of Christian myths, working class chronicles
- Weaver, Deke
- An intimate theatrical carnival ride of human sacrifice and romance. In a tent.
- Wellenstein, Denise
- the mother, the muse, the memory, the succubus
- Welsby, Chris
- the mechanics of film and video interact with the landscape to participate in the process of representation
- Wet Gate
- the All-16mm Projection Ensemble
- White, Lili
- personal journeys through the realm of the unconscious, using symbols, gestural movement and animated props
- Whitehead, Oliver
- film/video, installation, drawing, photography
- Williams, Lloyd
- dreamy images from the dark corners of the mind
- Wondra, Janet and Walker, Jeff
- spy stories, extraterrestrials, Southern politics and darkly poetic tall tales
- Wrbican, Sue
- storytelling, heartfelt prose and artful videography coalesce into an original and compelling web site
- Zedd, Nick
- transgressive cinema seething with the effervescent incandescence of underground life forms
- Zeller, George
- surrealist storytelling from Italy
