2024 FILM PROGRAM
1129 Weaver Dairy Rd Suite AB
Chapel Hill NC 27514
United States
Saturday March 2 @ 9PM
Program 3: Vision of Paradise
Illusions about reality, or maybe it’s the other way around. Choreographing self-destruction, workshopping rage, and animal mimicry. When we’ve finished training the AI, once and for all, will it show us its vision of paradise?
Catalog 93
Grau Del Grau, 2023
RT: 4:22 minutes
In the catalog, I learned about a lot of things.
Patient
Lori Felker, 2023
RT: 20:00 minutes
Fiction, reality, the private, and the performed overlap on a routine but emotional day at a medical center.
I Would Like to Rage
Chloé Galibert-Laîné, 2023
RT: 11:20 minutes
From role playing games to animated GIFs, from reenacted performances to poetic writing, this video essay asks: what is an authentic expression of anger?
Nearest Neighbor
Rebecca Baron + Douglas Goodwin, 2023
RT: 20:00 minutes
Intertwining associated experiments in image and sound generation using AI, Nearest Neighbor focuses on language acquisition and mimicry between humans, birds and machines, asking fundamental questions about consciousness, learning and understanding.
What Went Down
Danièle Wilmouth, 2024
RT: 15:30minutes
Beauty is pain – at least in the world of Dance. WHAT WENT DOWN takes a humorous and irreverent approach to unpacking ideas of suffering in pursuit of physical virtuosity. A collaboration between choreographer Peter Carpenter and filmmaker Danièle Wilmouth, WHAT WENT DOWN features a group of mid-career dancers who navigate the tense relationship between their chronically injured bodies and the barked orders of an uncompromising film director. Exposing the strenuous labor of the cinematic process both in front of and behind the camera, WHAT WENT DOWN devolves from constant action to profound inaction… all for you!
Vision of Paradise
Leonardo Pirondi, 2022
RT: 16:00 minutes
The great voyages to the “New World” were seen as expanding the frontiers of the visible and displacing those of the invisible, therefore, maps from that time render the real and imaginary. The film follows a voyage of the Brazilian Military in search of an imaginary island with the same name as their country. The myth from 1483 Brazil, or Hy-Brazil, is known to exist to the west of Ireland and above the Fortunate Islands. Vision of Paradise is an examination of the capacity of the human imagination and computer simulations to construct environments. Amidst the fine threshold of the real, simulated, and imagined, the film analyzes the contemporary ideas of virtual reality and their ambition to expand the frontiers of the physical world into a “New World”.
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