ONION CITY PROGRAM 9: SPACE BEING THE OPERATIVE WORD | JUNE 9-13
ONION CITY PROGRAM 9: SPACE BEING THE OPERATIVE WORD | JUNE 9-13
The 31st Onion City Experimental Film + Video Festival is streaming online from June 9 to 13. This year’s festival includes several in-person screenings and installations. Check out the full program at Onioncityfilmfest.org! Admission is a sliding scale suggested donation.
PROGRAM 9: SPACE BEING THE OPERATIVE WORD
Streaming June 9 – 13, Artist Q&A on Sunday, June 13 at 2:00 pm
During the pandemic, digital and physical spaces merged into a bewildering hybrid. At the same time, national dreams of rocket travel and interplanetary exploration have been co-opted by corporate tech giants. Pushing online images and digital animations to dizzying heights, the films in this program cut through the static to offer science-fictional perspectives on the past and present.
Jello
Interactions with a large jelly rat come to explode the narrator’s highly controlled space of isolation and obsession.
Adonia Bouchehri
United Kingdom, 2020, 12:00 mins
Egress: Dreams of a Dolphin
A collaborative journal of the last year recounted from two very different places in a single mind.
Joe Hambleton
Canada, 2020, 11:00 mins
Vivant
Combining digital and analog techniques, Vivant explores our relationship with what surrounds us, the danger of curiosity and blending together with the unknown.
Carlos Nahuel Cerutti
Argentina / United States, 2021, 02:00 mins
Cabo Tuna or The Management of the Sky
A materialistic re-reading of the history of artificial satellites and digital surveillance which, using exclusively footage found on YouTube, intertwines the origins of the Nazi and Soviet arms industries with the digital surveillance systems used in the Mexican context of the war on drugs.
Unidad de Montaje Dialéctico
Mexico, 2021, 13:00 mins
Last Man
When the world stopped, security cameras continued to record and stream their respective scenes 24 hours a day, allowing for the most direct and objective observation possible, without the tendentious mediation of mass media.
Dana Levy
United States, 2020, 12:00 mins
Three Missing Letters
In 1934 Indian aerospace engineer Stephen Smith launched the first of 270 attempts at transporting mail by rocket. The vessel exploded and 143 letters were scattered on the shores of Saugor Island. 140 letters were salvaged, but three were lost.
Lana Lin and H. Lan Thao Lam
United States / India, 2021, 25:00 mins
