Sinter
Artist: Gerald McKay
City: Detroit
Format: S8mm
Duration: 3 min
Year: 2017
Crystals fall into shifting landscapes while sunlight dances dizzy lines into our eyes.
Watch Tower (Parts 1-7)
Artist: Charlie Egleston
City: London
Format: digital
Duration: 23 min
Year: 2017
Structured in seven parts, each segment considers the impact a transmission beacon relays into its surrounding environment. Watch Tower acknowledges the act of watching through an acute awareness of how form influences perception while also observing the communications and timekeeping properties of the subject.
FLR
Artist: David Gazdowicz
City: Wyandotte
Format: digital
Duration: 3.5 min
Year: 2017
Looking at the world through the eyes of a visitor, this film focuses on the feeling of being displaced and alone. Finding moments of recognition becomes the goal.
Cineportrait 3
Artist: William Humphrey
City: Windsor
Format: digital
Duration: 4 min
Year: 2016
Two friends conquer their fear of heights at the local carnival.
A Woman Walking (the City Limits), North of The Bow
Artist: Alana Bartol
City: Windsor
Format: digital
Duration: 6 min
Year: 2016
In 2016, I attempted to walk the city limits of Calgary (174 km+), tracing the walk through collected objects, photographs, and video.
Shadows in Blue
Artist: Rachel Debolski
City: Livonia
Format: digital
Duration: 2 mins
Year: 2017
Shadows in Blue is an experimental piece that explores subjectivity through imagery of abstracted shadow and light.
Birthday Blues
Artist: Leah McGrail
City: Shelby Township
Format: digital
Duration: 2 min
Year: 2015
Birthday Blues is a short film generated with video collage meant to develop a nontraditional experience of time: the elements of a birthday wish—flour, eggs, frosting, a knife, a match—are layered in time, forming together a fleeting space on which to house a poem of passing.
Lullaby Optic
Artist: Steve Wood
City: Detroit
Format: digital
Duration: 8 min
Year: 2015
Lullaby Optic features abstractions generated by moving light through multiple video feedback loops. The result is a catalog of transient electronic forms. Scored with sounds from NASA’s archive and circuit-bent toys.
Shutter Utter
Artist: Matt Rossoni
City: London
Format: digital
Duration: 6 min
Year: 2015
An empty 16mm film projector is photographed and brought into the digital domain. Video acts as a kind of microscope revealing hidden pleasures.
Decay
Artist: William Spencer
City: Detroit
Format: digital
Duration: 4 min
Year: 2017
Decay is an abstract film portraying the decay of the human mind through hardships.
Ekpyrosis
Artist: Josh Pennington
City: Detroit
Format: digital
Duration: 2 min
Year: 2016
Man vs. Nature.
Proofs
Artist: Keaton Fox
City: Detroit
Format: digital
Duration: 2.5 min
Year: 2015
An investigation into how image presentation and preservation affect basic human perception in the digital age.