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House of Instants 1: Hidden Springs

House of Instants 1: Hidden Springs

Combined programme | IFFR 2002

Last year the first installment of House of Instants was presented, a program primarily dedicated to new digital work by experimental makers previously associated with the medium of film. Crossing over a new threshold into a digital medium represents neither a revolution nor a betrayal, but rather a sympathetic and practical way to capture and shape the flow of time, to make plastic events out of observation and thought itself. Living in the folds of telescoped or expanded time, these artists build pieces from the essence and residues of an attention to life and its apparent mysteries. Digital is a new dialect that brings with it new efficiencies, problems, and textures that are not simply accepted but become redefined by each maker on a personal level.

In this combined programme

Water Seeks Its Level
main programme short
A long pan of gold, red, green and blue near a deserted monastery in France.
Material Incidents
main programme short
Glimpse of the secret rituals of light and the loose relationship that light maintains with material, temperature and senses.
The 100th Undone
main programme short
A declaration of love for the individual in the era of bio-technical reproduction.
Slow
main programme short
A video trick, the ‘wipe’, is used in several short sequences that are as alienating as they are poetic.
She Puppet
main programme short
Lara Croft comes up against herself in a fit of philosophical introspection.
Have a Nice Day Alone
main programme short
Have a Nice Day Alone elicits a palpable experience of speech, in the guise of an experience of ‘artificial intelligence’.
Otherretho
main programme short
A short digital video of reanimated film frames of a swirling rorschach test.
Snowdrift
main programme short
Balancing on the rope between the virtual and the graphic domain.