T-Minus 2007

Thanks to everyone who came out to T-Minus 2007. It was an inspiring program, the best yet, with 14 time-based works presented. Stay tuned for T-Minus 2008. And, as always, if you know of someone working in the medium of time, pass this on.

DVD's of T-Minus 2007

DVD's are being mailed out to all the participants in this year's festival. Eemail me if you'd like to receive one. I'll do what I can to get these out to whoever is interested. cj/at/seej .net.

Upcoming Screenings

Let me know if you'd be interested in screening T-Minus. cj/at/seej .net. We're always looking for new venues and groups to present this collection to.

T-Minus 2007 Premiered:

November 9th at Monkeytown in Brooklyn, NY.

Welcome to the 4th-annual T-MINUS Film Festival: Bringing Time into Focus.

What slows down when everything speeds up? Why do things that move fast demonstrate a unique inner peace when viewed from a different speed? What are the defining patterns in the world of motion?

T-MINUS 2007 showcases a collection of imaginative and innovative work from filmmakers, scientists, photographers, dancers, printers, musicians, and passengers (as well as a few roosters) from around the globe - attempting to explore these questions through the creative medium of time. 

This year's festival presents 13 works encompassing a range of techniques and perspectives - from 16mm walks through NYC, to algorithm's in dance. Through shifting sequences, interrupting motion, or shuffling timelines, each piece succeeds at illuminating the hidden corners of our world by bringing Time into Focus.

Including work by: Adam Kendall, Charles Lim, Chris Jordan, Grant Wakefield, John Adderly, Luca Mugnaini, Luke Dubois, Nathaniel Stern, anti:clockwise, Peter Shapiro, Sameer Butt, Ting-Hsin Wang, Tony Schultz,

Specal thanks to Jon (Rabbits without Spleens) and Zeke (Anticipate Records) for the excellent tracks.

T-Minus 2007 Program

1. Yamanote Minuto

1:05 Luca Mugnaini

Luca creates a tribute to a Tokyo subway line; from crowded platforms to arial shots, the star is always the Yamanote Train.

2. Wrong Turn

6:36 Charles Lim

This film, entirely shot with an SLR camera in the forests of Southeastern Asia, brings together a surreal cast of characters intent on disrupting notions of temporality. The result is a lush canvas of flickering leaves and suggested plots.

3. Porcupine Tree: Scenes from a Blank Planet

7:48 Grant Wakefield

Grant's music video in timelapse - shot in and around Devizes, England - questions the impact of technology on youth culture by recording the glow of the screen, juxtaposed with empty playgrounds and suburban isolation.

4. Roosters Lament

3:37 Peter Shapiro

Bring in the Roosters! Peter coaxes out a hidden message from caged foul through varying playback rates.

5. Tilbury 24Hrs

3:37  John Adderly  

24 hours on an estuary in Tilbury, England, where tides align with the polluted rhythms of nearby factories.

6. Broadway

2:45 Sameer Butt

Sameer's 75-foot roll of 16mm film, shot along the entire length of Manhattan, spotlights the textures and intricacies of neighborhoods and architecture, all woven together by Broadway.

7. Timelapse Compilation

2:07 Arne de Laat

These technical and aesthetic experiments in time combine to form a familiarity with Arne and Utrecht, his home in the Netherlands.

8. Broad Cast Response

4:00 Nathaniel Stern

Nathaniel's binary tribute to the campy 1990 film "Pump up the Volume" deconstructs the film into two looping channels - one with every occurance of "yes" (or yea, ya! and ah); the other with every occurance of "no" (or na, noo!).

9. Wedding Banquet in Taiwan

4:00 Ting-Hsin Wang

This short takes us through a wedding in Taiwan, complete with coy-ponds, lazy susans, and plenty of revelrie.

10. EasttseW

5:30 Chris Jordan

This two-channel piece was shot on the entire train route from NYC to Montreal, facing east. The return trip, facing west, is reversed and aligned in the second channel.

11. Buffalo/Peace Bridge & Rooftop Trestle

2:00 Adam Kendall

These two short works are from a larger set by Adam, titled "Silent Videos". The shifting focus of frames (and re-frames) provide contrast to the urban industrial landscape.

12. Fashionably Late For The Relationship

3:58 Luke DuBois

As a woman prepares for a night out, three days pass by in the city around her. A three-day long public performance by Lián Amaris Sifuentes, filmed and digitally compressed into a feature-length video work by R. Luke DuBois. This is a short preview of the completed piece which took place July 6th through July 9th, 2007, on the traffic island off of NYC's Union Square.

13. Stranded

6:04 anti:clockwise

Audio and photos are combined to capture the construction of the Strand building in Hell's Kitchen, NYC.

14. Real

3:35 Tony Schultz

Tony works with technology and dance to create seamless environments, where the dancer has control over image speed and playback purely through movement.

I hope you enjoy this year's program,

Chris Jordan
cj{a+}seej.net