Rachel Guardiola – https://rachelguardiola.com Into the Zone (Anthology of Accounts + Findings) (2015) 16mm Film, Video, Hand Cranked Optical Soundtrack, 5:30 minutes
This film hints presents the possibility for a topography after the Holocene Epoch or Anthropocene, when humans no longer exist. Imagery shifts between landscape and footage that contemplates the role in which human collect, construct, and become natural history. The film consists of captured 16 mm black and white film images processed with bucket develop, reversal, and contact printing methods. These films have been montaged together with found 16 mm degraded color films of a natural history documentary. The act of looking and switching the perspective of the camera to the first person allows the audience to become an explorer of the time-based panorama. The point of view, sequence, and rhythm relates to the reference point of an onlooker, alien, or other navigating an uncanny earth like terrain. ==== Jeff Hazelden – https://quietspruce.com 2020/2030/???? (2019) Video, 10:00 minutes
Visibility leads to vulnerability. A look through the histories of camouflage, mimicry, and metamorphosis. Now is not the only time we know. ==== Bryan Ortiz Parícutin F.E. (2020) Video, 5:18 minutes
In Paricutin, bryan ortiz uses archival footage to tell the fictive and allegoric tale of a volcanic eruption. Through the view point of a small town and a group of researchers, we reflect on the circumstances of being “in” or “out” in the face of an impending disaster. What can be done in the face of uncertainty and how much of it is realized? How do we help those around us or do we just go about “business as usual”? ==== Kellie Bornhoft - https://www.kelliebornhoft.com Boundless Sediments (2020) Video, 11:49 minutes
Boundless Sediments is a video installation centered on the moving-shaking animacy of the ground called. The common space of ground, the shared layer of earth, has been a crucial topic in measuring and anticipating the warming planet. Geologists and climatologists have staked claims that we are now living in a new epoch, the anthropocene. Markers of this new era include the ground’s strata infiltrated by plastics, nuclear radiation being measured in the atmosphere in all parts of the world, and mass extinction. Rocks, although considered to be static, become reactionary in the age of the Anthropocene. Which should come as no surprise as we extract from fossil fuels which hold the energy of millennia of once-living beings. A void in conversations surrounding the anthropocene or climate change is the lack of discussion of the colonial violences of extraction that are responsible for this warming planet. Colonial logics of measuring, marking, and taking are dangerous. I am interested in the animate and responsive way that the earth moves in refusal. The land shakes and shifts beyond human drawn borders. Boundless Sediments is a two-channel video that uses poetry, ephemeral performance and hand drawn animation to reimagine our relationship with this pale blue dot.
Special thanks to Derek Lee for his viola interpretation of ‘Rock Steady’ by Aretha Franklin and for him allowing me to abstract it for the score. ==== Roger Beebe – http://www.rogerbeebe.com A Metaphor for the End of Just About Everything (2017) Video, 3:06 minutes
At one level, this is a document of the final hours of Long’s Book Store, a victim to both technological change (as books are ordered online or migrate to digital forms) and the pressures of real estate development (as a public-private partnership devours the blocks directly across from the Ohio State campus, nominally in the interest of establishing a new “Arts Corridor”). But the video is also a more general reflection on mortality and ephemerality, resonating with the billboard image of Félix González-Torres’s Untitled (for Parkett), which was also destroyed with the building. Perhaps paradoxically though, the video also represents and embodies the digital afterlife of those physical artifacts that disappear daily, preserving in electronic amber—for now, at least—these traces of what once was. ==== Kym McDaniel – https://www.kymmcdaniel.com Exit Strategy #5 (2020) Video, 8:00 minutes
The fifth in a series regarding my ability to cope with my emotional and physical traumas. ==== Brittney Sankofa - www.brittsankofa.weebly.com DOLL BABY (2018) Video, 15:01 minutes
DOLL BABY is an episodic experimental short that examines gender roles and sexual representations in media in a series of vignettes. The film was completed in 2018 as part of a solo video installation for "We Got Next: Young Contemporaries Group Exhibition" with the DC Council for Arts & Humanities.
