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"Plugged In," by Isabel Anderson, A Review from ArtScene Magazione

Unlike the Russian Constructivists who had a utopian socialist agenda, contemporary artists use technology in less programmatic and more open-ended ways. Today the merging of machine and aesthetic vision has lost the controversial edge it had thirty years ago in the famous Art and Technology exhibition at Los Angeles County Museum. Then curator of modern art Maurice Tuchman noted that there was a typically American “. . .frank, or even ironical attitude towards the machine. . .albeit with a certain romantic or comic nuance.” Tuchman explored a linkage between aritsts and engineers, advancing the development of creative ideas that were otherwise not possible due to great expense or lack of information.

Today’s art/technology matrix is so taken for granted that we tend to look through it. So immediate and personal has our connection to technology become that it has become something of an invisible screen. In art today mechanical things have become aesthetic objects in their own right. Plugged In offers a look at these changes as well as a cross section of current technological works that share a sharpness, humor, together with poetic insights. Curator Kathryn Hackman, not seeking to mount an exhaustive survey, includes six artists whose selections are able to stand alone without infringing on the space or atmosphere of their neighbors.

Ana-Victoria Aenlle’s ten minute black and white video is dead-pan but affecting, filmed as a series of abstract scenes from a moving train. Reflections of landscape and a minimal human presence mirror the fragmentary nature of modern life.

Film Poster for "Bones"

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TITLE OF WORK: Bones

SYNOPSIS:
Bones, B/W, 16mm short film, based on an Aleutian Islands, Inuit folk tale, follows a day in the life of a lone fisherman, where loss, desperation, loneliness are his compass and map. An unexpected catch, an uncharacteristic response, become the catalyst for transformation, and renewal.
This experimental narrative film explores the traditional narrative style with an abstract effect and sound track The narration is loosely structured prose.

PRE-SCREENING FORMAT: VHS, NTSC
PRODUCTION INFORMATION:
RUNNING TIME: 11:29 seconds
LANGUAGE OF FILM: English
CATEGORY: Experimental, short
ORIGINAL FORMAT: 16mm, B/W
SCREENING FORMAT: 16mm optical print, Digital-Beta
SOUND: Mono
ASPECT RATIO: Academy (1.33)

CAST: Magnus Stephanson, Mimi Tran
COMPOSER, PERFORMER: Lloyd Rodgers
SUPERVISING EDITOR: Hans Dudelheim
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER/EDITOR/SHOOTER: Ana-Victoria Aenlle

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
+ALWAYSi.COM, an Internet film site (www.alwayi.com.), Independent/Experimental category

+THE INDIEKINO INTERNATIONAL INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL, (http://www.iiff.org www.iiff.org), Seoul, Korea, first competitive International, Internet film festival in the world.
Indie Wing category, Aug. 28 - Sept. 11, 2000, selected for inclusion from 122 submissions, and it then went to "Heaven", another category, another state.

+ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM SHORT FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL ON SECOND STREET, Santa Ana, California, 2nd exhibition, Winner at the Fourth Arizona State University Museum Short Film and Video Festival.

+FLICKER #9, Los Angeles, California
The screening was held in conjunction with “Maestro! Celebration of Los Angeles Media Art,” presented by The Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers of New York; the National Alliance for the Media Arts and Culture in partnership with the American Film Institute; Filmmakers Alliance; Grantmakers in Film and Electronic Media Network; LA Freewaves; On-Ramp; the USC Annenberg Center and Visual Communications

+NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL INDEPENDENT FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL, The “Best of the Fest,” Los Angeles, Laemmle Theater,
One of 100 films selected from 600 films exhibited in three prior festivals.
Writer Susan Berry, in International Documentary Magazine stated the Festival is considered to be one of the largest independent, grassroots festivals of its kind in the nation.

+THE FOURTH ANNUAL ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY MUSEUM SHORT FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL, sponsored by THE ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM, Nelson Fine Arts Center, Arizona State University. One of twenty-two films selected from 362 entries from twenty-seven countries

+THE FIFTH ANNUAL PALM BEACH INDEPENDENT FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL, West Palm Beach, Florida

+NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL INDEPENDENT FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL, New York, Feb. 5-15, 2000, Clear View Cinema.
One of 200 films selected from more than 700 entries.

+THE 19TH ANNUAL NEW SCHOOL INVITATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL,Tishman Auditorium, The New School, New York, New York., First Answer Print,
Best in Show, Winner of the Dr. Jeannie Youngson Award
Jurors: Daniel Calvist, Propaganda Films. Jonathan Demme, writer, director, Ken Hamm, independent filmmaker. Susan MacIntosh, producer, director, writer.

Dialogue/Voice Over:

I awoke this morning,
not to the morning light.
but to
the hunger.
for everything.

Nothing.

Hunger.

The compass.
The map.

Nearby.

Nowhere.

The world’s been set awhirling
upside down.
inside out
hurricanes
monsoons
flloods
the earth shifts with unimaginable force
ruptures
fissures
what storm brings about these malevolent omens?


The need transformed
unreachable
unattainable
the longing.

Film Poster for "Hands"

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TITLE OF WORK: Hands Speak
"The unspeakable. Unspoken. Solitude governs."

SYNOPSIS: This short,cine-poem explores the difficulties of communication.

Director: Ana-Victoria Aenlle
Camera: Ernesto Melara
Editing: Ana-Victoria Aenlle/Steve Armstrong
Music: Dan Radlauer
Written/Designed: Ana-Victoria Aenlle

Country: U. S. A.
Running Time: 1 min. 38 sec
Category: Experimental
Original Format: 35mm film, color
Pre-Screening Format: VHS
Screening: Digi-Beta
Text: English

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
+ALWAYSi.COM, an Internet film site (www.alwayi.com.), Independent-Experimental category.

+THE INDIEKINO INTERNATIONAL INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL, ( HYPERLINK http://www.iiff.org www.iiff.org), Seoul, Korea, first competitive Internet film festival in the world. Indie Wing category, selected from 122 submissions

+The Spurgeon Experience, One Hundred Artists, One Hundred Rooms, Santa Ana, California.

+THE 31st NASHVILLE INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL & COMPETITION

+THE WILLIAMSBURG BROOKLYN FILM FESTIVAL-WHITE AXIS2000 COMPETITION, Commodore Theater, Brooklyn, New York,
The film along with the Williamsburg Brooklyn Film Festival was reviewed in TimeOut Magazine New York.

+THE FIFTH ANNUAL PALM BEACH INDEPENDENT FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL, West Palm Beach, Florida

+THE SHORT ATTENTION SPAN FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL, juried traveling film exhibition, San Francisco, Berkeley, New York

+THE TACOMA TORTURED ARTISTS FILM FESTIVAL, Tacoma, Washington, selected from 365 submissions, Finalist, Honorable Mention

+BERLIN INTERFILM FESTIVAL-13, INTERNATIONALES KURZFILMFESTIVAL BERLIN, “MYTHEN UND MAGIE,” selected from 600 submitted worldwide.