THE PROGRAM:
Program One (60 minutes, HD & 16mm)
To Co-respond, or “respond” together, implies a match, which is (used) to light a flame or, in other words: to create light together, or to make light, to lighten, or to illuminate while at the same time unburdening, which suggests a vertical movement (a sort of anti- or counter-gravitational movement) and allowing the freedom to “move” more readily, and in this case interactively, one “note” in the correspondence opening a portal through which correspondent and correspondee can mosey, float, stride, jump, or ooze, and consider from both sides, the “outside” becoming an inside from within which other casements can be carved, other throughways considered, taken, burst apart and re-imagined. If there is an end point it’s formed/found on the edge of the horizon of this hall of revolving mirrors, dissolving what seemed to be a clear illusion of singularity, exploding the personal while turning over, under, upward, sideward, onward.

This is our show: Five films that are gestural, exploratory, multivalent, and humorous...
Felker’s This Is My Show (2009, HD, 15min), petulant and sincere, directly addresses the audience with a fistful of double entendres. Mere Mystery (2010, 16mm, 12min) invites you to crawl, tickle and hug your way through a guided tour/home movie/ethnography. Both filmmakers meet somewhere between black and white in Imperceptihole (2010, 16mm, 15min), a 50/50 film made 100% together. Todd continues the journey through his own set of rabbit holes in the sun-kissed Golden Hour (2009, 16mm, 16min). Weapons Expert Demonstration (2010, 16mm 3min) puts the ire back in irony.

The works in this program have been included in programs at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Boston Underground Film Festival, Migrating Forms, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Maryland Film Festival, Festival du Nouveau Cinema, Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, WNDX Festival, WiP Festival and the Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival, Portugal in Imperceptihole was awarded an Honorable Mention.

This program has recently screened at the Mass Art Film Society in Boston, MA and at the Braun Court space in Ann Arbor, MI.

To book this program, please contact Lori & Rob.
(Program variations possible)

THE ARTISTS:
Lori Felker chose Filmmaking as her official second language in 2003-ish, bumping German into third place. Eventual fluency is important to her, so she employs many forms/formats, practices frequently with others, and tries hard not to shy away from expressing her thoughts on human behavior, travel, inter-activity, frustration, failure and political irritants.

After a lifetime torn between music and drawing/painting, film sauntered into the picture in 1989 and offered Rob Todd’s maker-innards a truce that seems to have endured ever since. A lyrical filmmaker as well as a sound and visual artist, he continually produces short works that resist categorization.



L-R: This Is My Show, Mere Mystery, Imperceptihole, Golden Hour, Weapons Expert Demonstration

MORE ABOUT THE WORKS IN THE PROGRAM:

This Is My Show
HD, 15min, 2009, Lori Felker
“Working with Nature” can be grueling and painful, but your hostess Adrienne is ready and willing to walk you through what it takes to perfect and control your surroundings. Adrienne brings you the very best in high quality, high definition gardening television, as she takes all of the necessary tools into her own hands for your edification and enjoyment.

Mere Mystery
16mm, 12min, 2010, Lori Felker
On the trail of Tall Tales, on a tour of an American treasure, on the path of an area once inhabited by people we don’t know, people we’ve never met, on a land complete with gift shops, parking lots, and sky rides, at the foot of a tree that predates and outlasts all of this, we now insert ourselves into a fog of layers.

Imperceptihole
16mm, 14min, 2010 Lori Felker & Robert Todd
A high contrast correspondence film, a science non-fiction fairy tale.
Things are never as polarized as they appear. Circling and searching, falling and landing, entering and exiting; actuality lies between
seasons, states, planes and worlds.

Golden Hour
16mm, 16min, 2009 Robert Todd
What if the Looking Glass were, at the same time, a window and a mirror, if the window was the mirror, the mirror the window? And your projection through this transparent/reflective plane did bring you to a world that is as externally rich as the self, in its internal churnings shifting through dark and light, directs it to be – the self and the world open to each other, if but for a moment? And that window offers itself to you as a space in your life, held shimmering in your being and your vision throughout that sustaining moment, that golden hour.

Weapons Expert Demonstration
16mm, 3min, 2010 Robert Todd
Selected Articles 0015-0148, GC504667B/A15
(1) Program Objective: The objective of the Fast Reaction Weapons Demonstration (FRWD) program is to demonstrate technologies
associated with high-speed miniature munitions dispensed within the context of the high speed dispensing event, performance, sub-pack
stabilization and desired deceleration of the sub-munitions/sub-packs, and sub-munition secondary dispense event.
(2) Subject: Demonstrator Platform courtesy of Lucas Wheeler.