TraverseTown's Favorite Shorts 2016
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- DirectorHarmony KorineStarsMichelrica HughesMiileah MorrisonElizabeth SmithA series of hazy 8mm vignettes, accompanied by a soft, lilting voice over, in which girls skulk around schoolyards, spray graffiti, drink, smoke, pose and embrace, evoking the loneliness, confusion and overwhelming wonder of growing up.
- DirectorHarmony KorineGirls dressed as American Indians visit a good old boy for his birthday.
- DirectorDavid O'ReillyA troubled relationship between a Cat and Mouse set in the distant future.
- DirectorHarmony KorineStarsNinjaYo-Landi VisserHector BezuidenhoutNamed after the Zulu language struggle song, the compiled shenanigans of an eccentric South African couple with wheelchairs and guns and their attempts to prove they are not to be trifled with.
- DirectorEd EmshwillerStarsStoney EmshwillerElectronic Arts Intermix describes Ed Emshwiller's pioneering experimental concept video as a digital sculpture: "Sunstone is a landmark tape. Symbolic and poetic, it is a pivotal work in the development of an electronic language to articulate three-dimensional space. The opening image is an iconic face, which appears to be electronically 'carved' from stone. A mystical third eye, brilliantly crafted from a digital palette, radiates with vibrant transformations of color and texture. Sculpting electronically, Emshwiller then transforms perspectival representation: the archetypal 'sunstone' is revealed to be one facet of an open, revolving cube, each side of which holds a simultaneously visible, moving video image. Created with complex technology over an eight-month period, this emblematic spinning cube metaphorically describes a three-dimensional, temporal space, both hyperreal and simulated. Emshwiller's humanistic approach to technology ushered in the 1980s with a new electronic vocabulary for conceptualizing and visualizing images in space and time. Reflecting an image-saturated world. SUNSTONE marked a new stage in electronic art."
- DirectorBruno BozzettoA man wearing a colorful hat dances on a small island. All is well until the Grim Reaper appears in a small boat, beckoning the dancer to come with him. Does this mean the end for the dancer's joyous footsteps?
- DirectorDavid O'ReillyStarsDavid O'Reilly
- DirectorNicolas DeveauxGiraffes dive elegantly from high diving boards.
- DirectorDavid O'ReillyStarsJon DalyHorse ponders his loneliness
- DirectorOskar Fischinger
- DirectorJohn Whitney Sr.
- DirectorDavid O'Reilly
- DirectorLen LyeAn experimental short film commissioned by Chrysler for a commercial.
- DirectorEvan JohnsonGuy MaddinA sinister narrator describes the ominous nature of Elm trees.
- DirectorApichatpong WeerasethakulStarsJulian WilliamsInitial a deep-sea diver is shown exploring a cave. Then a hand as shown handling a gastropod shell.
- DirectorTodd HaynesStarsDavid BlaikieJeff WilliamsBonnie SolowBullied boy, left by his father, supported by a over-optimistic and naive mother, tries out life in a new school.
- DirectorMartin ArnoldArnold's original material is a piece of found footage from the 1950s; 18 seconds long and very typical for the period. A quiet take: a living room, a woman in an armchair. Her husband opens the door, kisses her, then moves out of the picture accompanied by a disturbing pan, his wife follows him. In Arnold's film the sequence takes 16 minutes. Cadre by cadre, it becomes an exiting tango of movements. But "Pièce Touchée" is more than just a matter of forms. The reflections, distortions, and delays it displays challenge Hollywood's stable system of space and time.
- DirectorJordan BelsonAn experimental short film by Jordan Belson which combines various colors and shapes.
- DirectorMartha RoslerStarsMartha RoslerMartha Rosler takes us through an A-Z of the kitchen in this parodic feminist art film.
- DirectorRaya MartinA conquistador counts his blessings in this hand-colored elegy evoking old, silent film iconography.
- DirectorNorman McLarenFrom the opening credits: "An experimental film (...) made without camera, by drawing directly upon 35 mm film with an ordinary pen and ink." Various abstract shapes interact and transform into one another.
- DirectorLen LyeAnimation of colorful kaleidoscopic shapes set to jazzy music.
- DirectorMichael CeraStarsMichael CeraJack O'ConnellCharles GrodinIn a self-effacing attempt to save his father from a death by deterioration, a young man, named Gunther, enlists his curmudgeonly boss and Kelis to perform a song, called Brazzaville Teen-Ager.
- DirectorJames WhitneyYantra is named with the Sanskrit word for "holy machine," either a meditational device, like a mandala, or the great clockwork order of the universe. The film consists entirely of dot patterns punched into thousands of 5x7 cards with a pin, over a five-year period; then, using a computerized control, the images were overlaid in multiple positions and angles. The images enact a revelation of some primal mystery, flickering particles that boil up to a climax of shattering vigor: creation laid bare.
- DirectorJon Moritsugu