Anniversary Tour Show:
TIE, The International Experimental Cinema Exposition, marks more than 500 films screened since its inception in Telluride, Colorado. TIE's traveling showcase remains true to its dedication: celluloid works in their true format, from the latest contemporary works to archival films from the rich history of experimental cinema. The tour is a collection of highlights from the past six years of TIE’s expositions and festivals. The varying programs exhibit at a limited number of venues in North America and abroad.

TIE curator/founder, Christopher May & filmmaker/TIE board member, Frank Biesendorfer plus guest hosts, Kevin Boxer and Katherine German will be on hand to answer questions.

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Saturday, December 10th, 2005, 7PM
Colorado Springs, Colorado, Smokebrush Gallery
218 West Colorado Avenue, (719) 444-1012
7:PM (Doors 6:30PM)
Admission through Donation
Get together at Shuga's after the show.
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PRELUDE

Clip from Colorado Springs Home of Champions
Jim Prange
"Peggy Fleming. 1968. Broadmoor Ice Arena. Shot on 7241 Ektachrome Commercial low-contrast stock, hi-speed processed at Hollywood Lab. Years later, Jim polished the film with Pledge. Removed scratches. Now peggy skates on the slippery, shiny ice, better than ever before. One of the most beautiful, 5-minute long films ever made. Jim's extraordinary sense of delicacy, explored through the minimalist visual and sound design come together like divinity." -Christopher May
[5 min 1968-2005 USA 16mm (Artist in Person - Q&A)]

FIRST MOVEMENT

Stardust

Gregory Godhard
Excluding hydrogen, every atom in the Universe was manufactured within a star. These stars formed, burnt and eventually exploded, scattering their atoms throughout the Universe to form new stars, planets, life forms and eventually us. We are all made of stardust and into stardust we shall return. Stardust is an experimental animation made with miniature animation "cells" 6cm x 4cm. All optical fx were done in-camera.
[3 min 2004 Australia 16mm]

Der Klang des Meeres

Wolfgang Lehmann & Telemach Wiesinger
Visual invitation to an imaginary journey through the landscape of waves along the Atlantic coastline.
[13 min 2004 Germany 16mm]

Den of Tigers

Jonathan Schwartz
This gorgeous film was made during the filmmaker's travel to West Bengal, India. While there, Schwartz collected images/sounds- a reflection of the maker’s experience, feelings, and most of all, the participation of walking, looking, and listening. The piece touches outside the traditional arenas of genre and boundaries. It speaks with many voices - the associational values of experimental cinema, the patience of objective documentary, emotional levels of narrative, and intellectual/research oriented foundations of an essay. The culmination of visual construction and sound layering moves beyond hearing and seeing. Jonathan builds the work, with elements of tradition, into his own- a unique and new voice. It sings with observational, textural, lyrical, and metaphorical songs. It is in the construction where innovation enters -the interplay of movement-color-composition-meaning-mood swimming within the layering compositions of sound inspires emotion, association, and intellect.
[18 min 2002 India 16mm]

War Heb Je Voor Het Gekeken

Jason Halprin
"A multilayered montage of Amsterdam seen through the mind of a tourist on foot. The soundtrack and temporally manipulated imagery create a non-linear map of the city center in the repetitive pathways of a tourist's daily jaunts over foreign but instantly familiar turf."
[8 min 2004 USA/Holland 16mm]

Summer Drone Noir
Frank Biesendorfer
"Filmmed in double-8 black and white at a recent Herman Nitsch action in Austria, Summer Drone Noir is an extraordinarily soulfoul and honest cinematic exploration of Biesendorfer's tense variance between camera, author and subject. TIE-Award winning filmmaker and musician, Bernhard Schreiner, composed the score." -Christopher May
[13 min 2005 USA/Austria 16mm (Artist in Person - Q&A)]

Meridian Days
Trevor Fife
"Meridian days" is a navigational term that refers to the phenomenon of temporally losing or gaining a day when you cross the international dateline. This hauntingly poetic and beautifully crafted travelogue stems from audio and visual material collected on a 3-week luxury ship cruise taken with the filmmaker’s 82-year-old Grandmother. The result is a visually stunning and engaging mix of humor and disparity. -Christopher May
[12 min 2003 USA 16mm]

Milk and Honey

Kate McCabe
Exposes the nature of light, love and moon landings in the Promised Land of Southern California.
[17 min 2004 USA 16mm]

SECOND MOVEMENT

Water Work

Tony Hill
A sculptural film which explores the space on and just below the surface of a swimming pool. The film plays with orientation, weightlessness and particularly the surface itself, that peculiar boundary between worlds that is both window and mirror, visible and invisible.
[11 min 1987 UK 16mm]

The Man Who Invented Gold
Christopher MacLaine
"A film fable so structured that all alchemical searchings are clearly film wise (gold being discovered cinematically in each sequence of mixed black-and-white and color) so that when the drama-discovery is actually made, it acts as a deliberate anti-climax of aesthetic perfection." --Stan Brakhage
[14 min 1957 USA 16mm]

The Influence of Ocular Light Perception on Metabolism in Man and in Animal

Thomas Draschan & Stella Friedrichs
This found footage film uses an Italian sixties soft porn soundtrack which is repeated two times. Each time a sequence of images is synched to the soundtrack. The film images are illustrating acts of ocular light perception as well as imagery with strong visual impact. It is a kind of visual test directed towards the viewer.
[6 min 2005 Austria/Germany 16mm]

Selbstbildnis als Akt; Studie Nr. 2

Wolfgang Lehmann
"I love signs of transience such patina, scratches and age; they are traces of history and existence in pictures. They are signals for irreversible time."
[8 min 2003 Germany 16mm]

Metaphysical Education

Thad Povey
The molding of young flesh and the beating of desperate wings. Instead of using tape splices 16mm wide, this film was edited by turning the splicer sideways to reveal the sprockets and the soundtrack. The long cuts run diagonally across the screen and, as the filmstrip slides by, the highest jumper shows the way to the herd. Music by Ramona The Pest.
[4 min 2003 USA 16mm]

Film (Dzama)

deco dawson
An attempt to rekindle the lost form of surrealist cinema made popular in the 1920s by Dali / Bunuel and Man Ray. Marcel Dzama is a Winnipeg based Visual Artist who works on small page size drawings and watercolor story boards. This is a beautiful, fictional biography of Marcel Dzama’s work. His real life father Maurice plays the role of the artist.
[23 min 2001 Canada 16mm]