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| 7:00 PM | Friday, April 7, 2023 |
| Woodland Pattern Book Center |
| 720 E Locust St | Milwaukee, WI |

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The ____ Place [Michelle Elrick]

3 min 13 sec, Video

Synopsis:
Created in partnership with CBC on the theme of "Happy Place." Featuring dancer Emily Solstice Tait, cinematographer Tyler Funk and poet Michelle Elrick, with music by Michael Belyea.

Artist Bio:
Michelle Elrick is a writer and performer based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Her most recent release is Photon Touch, a chapbook + studio album of poetry and music created in collaboration with Michael Belyea (River of Diamonds/Trunk Sale, 2019). Elrick’s latest full-length book, then/again, was published by Nightwood Editions’ blewointment imprint for innovative poetry in 2017. She is a graduate of The Writers’ Studio at Simon Fraser University where she studied under the direction of Betsy Warland, Miranda Pearson, Daphne Marlatt and others. She was the recipient of the 2017 Arty Award for Literary Excellence, the 2011 John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer, and was shortlisted for the CBC Literary Award for Poetry in 2015. Her work has appeared in Geist, Prairie Fire, Poetry is Dead, Canadian Literature, Event and other journals, and she was featured on the cover of CV2 magazine’s Winter 2011 edition. An internationally received artist, Elrick has read at festivals and events in Minneapolis, Belfast, Copenhagen, Edinburgh, Paris, Amsterdam and all across Canada. In 2012 she debuted a performance installation series in Reykjavik, Iceland called Notes From the Fort: a poetic of inhabited space. In addition to her text-based work, she has also written and directed several poetry films, which have screened internationally and been awarded broadcast contracts on CBC television. She is a member of The Writers’ Union of Canada.

Searching for Melilot [Kathy Hinde]

4min, Digitised 16mm film

Synopsis:
Whilst resident on a narrow boat along the UK canals of Wigan and Leigh, Kathy searched for the wild clover Melilot, guided by a survey of the same plant made by her grandmother, Beatrice Hinde (a hobby botanist) over 50 years ago in the same area. Using the boat as a darkroom and camera-less filmmaking techniques, she has created phytograms (a technique invented by Karel Doing) by applying plants directly to film, leaving traces of plant structures, smudges and colours. This is combined with photograms created by placing pressed flowers and leaves directly onto film, including delicate leaf skeletons from Bea’s collection of ephemera, collected in Wigan during the 1960’s. The film reveals the intricacies captured from encounters between plants, flowers and photochemical film.  Commissioned for Light Night Wigan & Leigh 2022.

Artist Bio:
Kathy Hinde (UK) is an audiovisual artist inspired by behaviours and phenomena found in nature and the everyday expressed through audiovisual installations and performances that combine sound, film, sculpture, image and light. Composed of hand-made objects, electronics and a blend of digital and analogue systems, her work often represents a cross between kinetic sound sculptures and newly invented instruments. She frequently works in collaboration with other practitioners and scientists and often actively involves the audience in the creative process. Kathy is a member of Bristol Experimental Expanded Film (BEEF)

Instagram: @kathyhinde   
Twitter: @birdtwitchr  
Website: kathyhinde.co.uk

BEEF website - http://www.beefbristol.org/

A Boated Roof [Aoife Desmond]

16min, 16mm Film transferred to video

Synopsis:
This 16mm artists film sensitively portrays the making, design and context of a wooden pavilion for the community space TEST SITE on formerly disused city centre site in Cork, Ireland. The distinctive Belfast Truss roof was made collaboratively with local boatbuilders Meitheal Mara. This traditional building technique references the roof of the now collapsed R.H. Parker & Sons sawmill located on the adjacent Kyrl’s Street. Spoken context within the film are given by industrial archaeologist Colin Rynne and the Meitheal Mara workshop team. Current and historical connections of craftsmanship, timber trading and river navigation connect the sites of Meitheal Mara on Crosses Green and TEST SITE on Kyrl’s Quay. Both the pavillion and film were produced for the collaborative art and architecture project TEST SITE. TEST SITE was co-created by artist Aoife Desmond and architect Ailbhe Cunningham in 2019 in response to the potential of the then derelict site. 

For more details see www.testsitekyrlsquay.ie. 

Artist Bio:
Aoife Desmond is a filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist who focuses on distinct sites and ecologies. She works predominantly with 16mm and Super 8mm film. Recent screenings include A Boated Roof at Cork Film Festival 2022, Mná & Sons at Architectural Heritage screening at TEST co-presented with aemi (Artists Experimental and Moving Image Ireland) 2021, Garden Clearance at Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque 2020, Interior Exterior in Merciful Hour, The Darkroom, Dublin 2019. Boat Voyage at SeaFest, Cork  2019, Walking in the Stones in Deep Time, Cornwall Film Festival and Plymouth University, UK 2018, RetroReflection in Technology, Nature and the Essay Film Form, Cork Film Festival 2018, RetroReflection at Nuns Island Theatre, Galway 2017, RetroReflection in Irish Artist & Experimental Film, IMMA, Dublin 2017, RetroReflection at Crawford Art Gallery, Cork 2017. For more info see www.aoifedesmond.com 

Configurations [James Edmonds]

8min, 16mm Film transferred to video

Synopsis:
The little personal myths and structures we set up to aid the survival of the psyche in times of low harvest. 
Finding subtle points of reference in subject and camera movement, in the landscape, its details and the traditions of the season, I attempt to connect the outside with the embodied camera and the inward gesture of the brushmark.

Artist Bio:
James Edmonds works primarily with super8 and 16mm film as well as painting and music. His practice is driven by a personal poetics in which the act of recording the everyday becomes both a materialist, formal structure and a highly subjective experiential reality in itself - a complex synthesis of presence and memory. In his films, the work begins in the camera, the formation of the shots becoming intrinsically part of the meaning, the film material its own entity. 

His films have been shown at various festivals and venues including TIFF Wavelengths, NYFF Projections (now Currents), Ann Arbor Film Festival, Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, MOMI New York, MIFF Melbourne, Curtas Vila do Conde, Redcat California, EXiS Seoul and L’ âge d’Or Brussels. Solo presentations have occurred at (S8) A Coruña, EXFF Frankfurt, Cinema Parenthèse Brussels, Nocturnal Reflections Milan and Ausland Berlin. He occasionally writes texts on film, organises screenings and from 2015-2018 ran a monthly film series in Berlin called Light Movement.

Marica [Anouk Chambaz]

10min, Video

Synopsis:
Marica – water nymph and master of the animals – is the portrait of Donatella di Cola, a beekeeper who became a butterfly breeder after one of them attacked the habitat of her bees. Instead of fighting the parasite, Donatella made it the engine of a new experience, transforming a failure into an opportunity. A strong bond unites the woman to her insects. These are carefully cared for and protected to safeguard their extinction, yet like every demiurge Donatella decides their life cycle: the eggs hatch, the caterpillars lose their skin and the chrysalis transform only when she decides to let them grow in her laboratory, like a modern Frankenstein.

Artist Bio:
Anouk Chambaz (Lausanne, b. 1993) lives and works between Lausanne and Rome. With a background in filmmaking and philosophy, she explores the poetics and politics of the moving images. She investigates the exchanges between life form and their geo-political landscape, looking for images that go beyond the human vision, interrupt narrative linearity and provoke emotional reactions in the viewer. Recently she won the Combat Prize in the video section and exhibited in institutions such as Museo Novecento in Firenze, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin and Newark Museum.

Paisajes Repentinos (Sudden Landscapes) [Javier de Azkue]

4min 56sec, Video

Synopsis:
In the middle of a frozen landscape, nature is disturbed by strange inorganic forces that cover everything. Combining video with generative art and concrete music, Sudden Landscapes is a sci-fi experimental film that meditates on creation and the encounter between natural and artificial life.

Artist Bio:
Born in Patagonia Argentina, Javier de Azkue is an Image and Sound Design graduate from the University of Buenos Aires. Recipient of the Raul Urtasun and Francis Harley Scholarship for Young Argentinian Artists in 2017 and the Fulbright - National Arts Fund in 2019, he works with video, code, animation and film, and is now finishing his Master's Degree in Electronic Arts at the Tres de Febrero National University.

Comet [Shogo Nakamura]

3min 35sec, Animation

Synopsis:
Somewhere beyond time and space was a comet circling the far corners of the universe. Its path was always one of reflection.

Artist Bio:
Born in 1982.
Graduated from Musashino Art University in 2006.
Freelancer of stop-motion based in Tokyo.