PRIME MOVER* : Curated By Daniel Leeds

Wednesday, June 24th

7:00pm

A screening of experimental video and short films by 10 up-and-coming artists in the Brooklyn, NYC and Philadelphia area. Curated by Daniel
Leeds with the assistance of Silvia Cernea, both currently Brooklyn based artists.

*PRIME MOVER features artist-curated programs of cutting edge video and media art, with an international focus.

 

Still image from Justin McBrien's "Tricerytron"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Woundready's Museum, a Dark Melodramedy, 2004

by Alex Haney (Brooklyn)

A satirical homage to early German cinema. Woundreadys museum tells the story of a young orphan, a virgin posessed by an unknown pregnancy forced to run away from her caregivers at the convent to seek the help of a back-woods doctor. Dr. Woundready practices very unconventional medicine and has his own dark motives of love and death.

Wind Up, 2008

by Winslow Smith (Brooklyn)

A character, Mimic, sustained by things, w/sound

Coney Island Swan Song, 2008

by Mark Read (Brooklyn)

A wistful, haunting rumination on the imminent end of the current

incarnation of Coney Island.  Pretty and poignant.

Portland is Wet, 2008

by Clara Jo (Brooklyn)

The artist explores the woods of Portland, Oregon, with an electronic

instrument that produces synthetic sounds when in contact with organic

matter.

CBTIS

by Christian Carrol (NYC)

 

Driving Biking Throwing, 2008

by Reid Bingham and Colin Challender

A camcorder, purchased from a local pharmacy, was used and misused, to create these videos. Duct taped to hubcaps, and bicycles, thrown around a park or into the dryer, these disposable camcorders representnew possibilities for image creation, as video technology becomes ubiquitous as cell phones and ATMs. And now, because of their accessibility, any inherent value, mystique, or respect for the camcorder may quite literally be thrown out the window.

Glamour, 2006

by Xiaocao (Sally) Liu (NYC)

An abstract look into the mechanics and meaning of makeup.

New York Trilogy, 2008

by Tal S. Shamir (Brooklyn)

The film presents three short philosophical reflections on New York City. The first part deals with the Culture Industry and commoditization; the second part deals with the simulacra and the image; and the third part deals with the emptiness of New York City.

Robot Soliloquies: Andronica, 2009

by Jeb Banegas (Brooklyn)

A robot reminisces about a love from his youth.

Tricerytron, 2009

by Justin McBrien (Philadelphia)

A short film that uses appropriation and creatures of mythical proportions to create a grotesque yet revealing allegory about love, consumption, voyeurism and paranoia.