Films: Faux Mouvements…and Other Excursions

Faux Mouvements…and Other Excursions

80 Minute Running Time
Program: Shorts in a Feature-Length World

This package of experimental shorts includes five films: one by an American living in Paris (Pip Chodorov), one by a Frenchman living in Denver (Alexandre O. Philippe), and three by Coloradans. Join us on this excursion into motion itself as it takes the forms of visual music, animation, and documentary impressionism.

Films in Program...

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  Canvas Cinema: Thinking Is Finding

  USA , 2008 , 5 min.
  Director: Eric Waldemar One elaborately painted canvas is the focus of the entire film; close-ups of its weave lend a sense of materiality that one rarely encounters on video.... more
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  Faux Mouvements

  France , 2007 , 12 min.
  Director: Pip Chodorov This is a film about the perception of motion. Spirals turn and train tracks advance; the forward and the backward coincide; still images seem in flux. Cinematic allusions abound.... more
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  Not Enough Night

  USA , 2007 , 7 min.
  Director: Dan Boord , Luis Valdovino A swan song for bygone hipsters who longed for lively community in the midst of post-World War II suburbs, shopping malls, and lonely consumerism.... more
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  The Spot

  USA , 2008 , 17 min.
  Director: Alexander O. Philippe With its unique emphasis on evocative images and sound designs, The Spot operates as an impressionistic and voyeuristic experimental documentary about the bizarre goings-on around Dealey Plaza, where JFK was assassinated.... more
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  The Thinking Truck

  USA , 2008 , 38 min.
  Director: Eric Waldemar The Thinking Truck, set against the sparse grandeur of the northern Chihauahuan desert, is a deeply peculiar sojourn into the artistic process.... more