The 3rd Missing Screening of the Another eXperiment by Women Film Festival

MARCH 13, 2012 — 7:15 PM — NEW FILMMAKERS’ Women's Night at Anthology Film Archives in NYC!
Curated by: Lili White


MIEDOS (FEARS); Mercedes Sader; Uruguay; TRT: 2:06; Digi
I was a fearless woman until I had my first son. The fear of loosing, the fear of pain, enter in my life. Conscius and reason took other road than feelings and emotions. Flying in the middle of a storm, facing a brain tumor and still being here are fears that inspired this short film.

TORSO; Maria Niro; USA; TRT: 02:39; digi
A torso, a cargo ship, reflecting sky and a flight through the clouds create this odd visual articulation of Rainer Maria Rilke's poem Archaic Torso of Apollo. Torso addresses individual responsibility towards collective consumption, the attempt to understand how one can relate to the global market place and challenge this relationship.

SEASONAL JOY; Charmaine Ortiz; USA; TRT: 3:13; digi
A mash up of various Public Domain Sources that explores the psychological short comings of temporal happiness using adapted public domain footage. When are minds are consumed by the warm weather–a psychological take over by summer (spring fever in a sense), questions regarding the true nature of this blindsiding emerge.

THIS IS A TEST REEL; Matoula Eolou Gekko; France/Greece; TRT: 3.00; 8MM & Super 8 to digi
The 8th of april 2010 I went out in the main streets of athens to test a new super 8 camera. I asked random strangers to hold captions I had prepared, therefore making their short portraits and transforming a small super 8 reel in a collective project.This was my own way of reacting to the fear and deception that had been created due to 'the crisis' that had just been announced in Greece. The super 8 was the dreamt medium, the one that was in opposition from tv, from the flux, and that allowed to create a space for encounters, just for a reel's time.

A COLD PLACE; Muriel Montini; Music: King Arthur by Purcell; France; TRT: 4.00; digi
The Paris Bourse. A winter’s evening. Traders have a break.

CURIOUS LIGHT; Charlotte Pryce; USA; TRT: 4.00; 16MM
A manuscript illuminated: illustrations retreat into the fiber of the page; a fleeting light dissolves into the emulsion of the film: an elusive story is revisited.The film is entirely hand processed

MY FATHER'S LETTERS; Yana (Ioanna) Sakellion; USA; TRT: 2.15; Digi
This piece is based on a personal narrative and expresses the early fascination with handwritten letter-forms and textile qualities of handwriting. The digital short conveys a childhood associations between the object and the meaning, while experimenting with kinetic typography.

SVEIT; Kyja Kristjana; USA / Iceland; TRT: 9.00; digi
While unpacking memories and stories of her grandfather's experience as a New American in North Dakota, Kyja documents the history and mythology of her family's emigration while negotiating the reality of present day Iceland.

BIRTH of BRAINFLY; Nandita Kumar; India/ New Zealand; TRT: 6.00; digi
A surreal journey of a psyche's evolution within the invisible landscape of the mind. The visual landscape is made up of a mélange of experiments in collage, live action, hand drawn, paint on film and multi plane. This film is inspired by the process of “individuation” (the term coined by psychologist Carl Gustav Jung). A new shift in my work was created due to thought processes force induced by my migration from India to New Zealand. Individuation is a self-discovery of your own psyche and life; one discovers what lies underneath the conscious egocentric personality. Only through a painful process of objective analysis can one evolve. The birth signifies the beginning of a new evoluted being, who is a free creative thinker, who is an aware conscious being.

LOST COLLECTION; Courtney Krantz; Dancer: Kate Rose; USA; TRT: 3:13; 16MM to digi
A film that originates from the body as a preservative measure of time.

IN THE CONSERVATORY; Caryn Cline; USA; TRT: 05:00; 16MM
"In the Conservatory" uses a handmade, "botanicollage" technique to experimentally document one of the filmmaker's favorite escapes: the Volunteer Park Conservatory in Seattle, Washington.

******************************* FILMMAKERS BIOS *********************************
Caryn Cline is a filmmaker and teacher, originally from the Ozarks in southwest Missouri. Her film festival screenings include the Crossroads Festival (San Francisco), the London International Animation Festival, Experiments in Cinema 6.3 (Albuquerque, NM), the Melbourne Animation Festival (Australia), the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival (Czech Republic), the Madcat International Women’s Film and Video Festival, New Filmmakers (NYC), Women in the Director’s Chair, the Southwest Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, the Iowa City Documentary Film Festival, and the Milwaukee Underground Film Festival. She lives and works in New York City and Seattle, Washington.
Matoula Eolou Gekko is Daphné Hérétakis's alter ego. She lives in Paris and Athens and has been making documentaries and experimental short and medium length films since 2008. 
Courtney Krantz works between the realms of the still and moving image; probing considerations of the body through her body while working with dance artists in collaborative process. Her movies fix exploratory investigations of dance and improvisational movement practices. One evolving source of inspiration and challenge is framing choreographic potentialities between the body in motion and the moving cinematic frame.
Kyja Kristjansson-Nelson has screened her films in Asia, Europe, North America and Australia, at venues such as the Walker Art Center, the National Museum for Women in the Arts, the European Media Arts Festival, and the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art.  Her work has received awards, including the Kodak Vision Award for Best Cinematography, the Ann Arbor Griot Best Editing Award, and the Moondance Calypso Award. Kyja has received fellowships from the Fulbright Association, the Bush Foundation, the Corporation of Yaddo, and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program.  Kyja is an Associate Professor of Cinema Arts at Minnesota State University Moorhead
Nandita Kumar is a multi-faceted, award winning filmaker, multi media artist, painter and performer. She has completed her Masters Degree in Experimental Animation at California Institute of the Arts, in Los Angeles. Nandita’s artistic expressions have shown in various festivals and exhibitions throughout the world including Los Angeles county Museum(LACMA) along with the Salvador Dali Exhibit, REDCAT, The New Zealand International Film Festival, Film Anthology Archive NY, Indian Art Summit, The Rome International Film festival, Stuttgart Animation Festival, The Academy of Television Art and Sciences in Los Angeles and the Best of Sydney Underground Festival DVD.In her work she explores the elemental process by which human beings construct meaning from their experience. It is the dynamic process of interplay between events, self and culture. Her art metaphorically circumnavigates this experience and is a personal meditation on her own process of reflection and interpretation. She predominantly works as an artist trying to collage the timeless world and poetically draw inherent correlations between the self and the various dimensions of the cultural diaphragm. Her current films include The Linear of Nightmare, Studies on Dualism, The Birth of BrainFly and Tentacles of Dimensions.

Muriel Montini Studies cinema. Lives and works in Paris.
Maria Niro works with video, installation, photographyand sound. Her current body of work explores the poetics of memory and dreams analyzing their connections to the textures and rhythms of water, light, time and space. She creates original soundscapes usingfield recordings, found sound, and her own voice manipulated with software instruments. Niro’s latest web videos were commissioned by Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and featured at www. WhiteLightFestival.com. Her work has screened in galleries and festivals throughout the world including the 10th Annual River to River Festival in New York, The 7th Berlin International Directors Lounge, European Media Arts Festival Germany, NOT A CAR at Los Angeles Art Organization, Festival of the New Latin American Cinema, CUBA, Video Dumbo New York, Counter Cultures, Counter Cinema at Exit Art Gallery  New York, WNDX Winnipeg’s Film & Video Art Festival, CANADA, Whitechapel Gallery, UK and Millennium Film Workshop New York, among others. Some of Niro’s work is distributed by the New American Cinema Group/Filmmakers' Cooperative. She is based in New York City.
Charmaine Ortiz
Born and raised in North Carolina. In 2003 she attended the University of North Carolina in Wilmington, where she earned Bachelor of Arts degrees in Painting and in Art History. Prior to her graduate studies she assisted illustrator and sculpting artist, Virgina Wright-Frierson, in building the Airlie Gardens Minnie Evans Bottle Chapel.  Savannah College of Art and Design has recognized her creative passion by awarding her the Combined Honors Fellowship to facilitate her completion of dual graduate degrees in Art History (MA) and Painting (MFA).


Charlotte Pryce
Charlotte Pryce has been making films and optical objects since 1986 and her works have screened throughout the world. She has taught experimental film at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the San Francisco Art Institute, the Academy of Art (San Francisco), Kent Institute of Design (Canterbury, England), and is currently a faculty member at the California Institute of the Arts (Los Angeles). She is a graduate of the Slade School of Art, University College London (BFA) and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (MFA).

Mercedes Sader is a filmmaker and cultural manager currently living and working in Punta del Este, Uruguay. Her experimental films are influenced by and are the consequence of her election: she choose to live and work in a country that experimental cinema represents a real possibility to film. She is inspired by the circumstances of her own life. In order to promote experimental cinema she is part of a group of artists that organize an annual experimental film festival  and also coordinates workshops and seminars –free of any charge- about script, photography, filming with 16mm cameras, etc. in her city, a little town by the beach.

Yana Sakellion As a designer and an artist Yana works across mediums including graphic design, interactive media, and video. Her practice emphasizes interdisciplinary approach to a conceptual inquiry, with special interest in storytelling. Yana was born to a mixed Russian-Greek family and grew up in Uzbekistan, Former Soviet Union. She often takes inspiration in the memories of her upbringing and migratory experiences. She also traveled excessively between the Former Soviet Republics, Europe and the US, and is fluent in Russian. Yana earned an honorary MFA degree from the Department of Digital + Media at the Rhode Island School of Design, and her work has been exhibited and published nationally and abroad, most recently at the Video and Contemporary Art Festival Waterpieces, Riga, Latvia and Oslo Screen Festival, Oslo, Norway. She is currently holding a tenure-track position on the faculty in the Graphic Design Department at the American University, Washington, DC.