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Memoir Showcase

Work Descriptions
2006

Daniel Rose - My Urban Images – is a poetic view of the filmmakers’ urban life. Beautifully shot in black & white video, he explores memories of his childhood and his life in the present. The piece speaks to the evolution of his community from a neighborhood of families to an often impersonal and economically depressed city.

Steven Dressler - People Pretending To Be Me - is a work “from a simpler time before it was commonplace for people to pretend to be other people.” Quirky and eccentric, the filmmaker puts on a mask and invites the viewer into a world of paranoia and post-modern pop music.

Teri Clarke - Doubting Teri - is a look into the artist's waning confidence in her craft. The audience listens in as she and her friends discuss her habits of comparing herself to her peers, her need to please professors, and her constant compromise of her creative vision. The piece is a montage of black and white film footage including the direct process of drawing on and manipulating the film image.

Michael Difeo - The Infinite Possibilities of the Future - is a chronicle of a subconscious meander. Part self-portrait, part essay, it is a consideration of his collective past in order to define his future. The piece was shot using the technique of stop-frame animation and includes over 2,000 individual portraits of the artist/filmmaker.

Elizabeth Jane Cavanagh - Memorial - "In the summer of 2004 I brought a video camera to my grandparent’s memorial service. The day started with a small gathering of the family over lunch, game playing, and talking. Some of the family boarded a boat and went to spread my grandparent’s ashes in the Massachusetts Bay." The filmmaker combines her video footage with 16MM home movie footage of her grandparents, Super-8 footage from her mother, and her grandmother’s poetry to capture life and family, and the way things move and change over the years.

Louis Libitz - Bereavement - is an experimental non-fiction work dealing with the loss of the artist’s grandfather. Through a telephone conversation with his mother, we learn about the events leading up to his grandfather’s death, and the painful truths he has had to confront.

Melissa Polin - Mother - is an experimental video about the filmmaker's experience of her mother being taken away to jail. Raw and intensely personal, the filmmaker’s mother addresses the camera as in a confessional act, while the audience shares in her confrontation with these painful truths.

Summer Wosu - Handsome - is a piece that takes the viewer on a rhythmic journey revealing the intricacies of being young and voiceless. The filmmaker vigorously introduces themes of violence, sexuality, verbal abuse, and basketball.

Keith Bracker - I Am Me - was constructed as a piece driven by the strength of its visual images. Through the use of voice-over, the audience is invited to share in the filmmaker’s personal experiences. This self-portrait reflects on his talents, his spirituality, and things that give him pleasure including writing, food, filmmaking, and watching the sunrise.