Micheline Durocher | Video

Doppelgänger (2011) Screening in the Netherlands at 222Lodge in Dordrecht

michelinedurocher — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 01:00:16 +0000

- When
  
  Friday, January 27, 2012
- Time
  
  8:30pm until 11:30pm

Where

SBK Dordrecht, Voorstraat 180

222Lodge Extern: The Inevitable.
a one night festival of 10-minute presentations of time-based art.

Playlist (so far):

Bill Aitchison (GB)
Peter Baren (NL)
Russell J. Chartier/Paul J. Botelho (USA)
Denis Dimovski (SRB)
Micheline Durocher (CA)
Leonid Dutov (RUS)
Ohad Fishof (IL)
Efrat Gal (IL)
Şinasi Güneş (TR)
Christina Sukhgian Houle (USA)
Maja Kirovska (MK)
Elad Larom (IL)
Lemeh42 (I)
Frans van Lent (NL)
Christina Linaris-Coridou/Robert Nottrot (GR/NL)
Roy Maayan/Anat Katz (IL)
Mario Matokovic (HR)
Nicola Monopoli (I)
Nico Parlevliet (NL)
Patricia Sousa (P)
Matej Stupica (SLO)
Tami Vibberstoft (DK)
Ellen Wetmore (USA)
Tina Wilgren (SE)
Robert Wittendorp (NL)

Doppelgänger screened @ Vertigo, 1st festival of vertical video and film in Novi Sad Serbia

michelinedurocher — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:51:58 +0000

Doppelgänger was screened as part of the programming titled Vertigo at the 2nd international short film and video festival.

Multimedia center

Academy of Arts Novi Sad

10 and 11 december 2011

Live : VJ Happy Trash, FEAT, Leche nedelja

Catalogue of video programming available from Go up right!

Finaliste pour le Prix Oboro Georges Laoun opticien / Finalist for the Oboro Georges Laoun Prize in short video

michelinedurocher — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 20:55:09 +0000

Georges-Laoun-Opticien-OBORO Super Short Film Prize Launch cocktail and winner announcement :
October 28, 2011, at 5:30 pm
at 4012 Saint-Denis Street, corner of Duluth
Free event, all welcome!Store-window screening
from October 28 to November 11, 2011

Finalists

Micheline Durocher
Mario Gauthier
Myriam Jacob-Allard
Jonathan Lemieux
Roberto Santaguida
Roger D. Wilson

For a third consecutive year, OBORO and Sherif Laoun of Georges Laoun Opticien partner up to bring new media art into the community of the Plateau Mont-Royal. The Georges-Laoun-Opticien-OBORO Super Short Film Prize rewards six artists for a short film of less than three minutes.

Making good use of their shared neighbourhood and common patronage of the arts, Georges Laoun Opticien and OBORO have come together to create this prize. Every finalist will receive $100 in cash, and the winner will be offered a prize of $500 in cash and $1500 of access to OBORO’s New Media Lab equipment and studios.

The six finalists’ videos will be screened in the store-window of Georges Laoun Opticien located at 4012 Saint-Denis Street in Montreal through November 11. The winner will be announced at the launch cocktail on October 28, at 5:30 pm.

Georges Laoun Opticien was awarded the 2011 prix Art-Affaires by the Montreal Arts Council for the involvement in this project.photo: Geo Giguère

Prix du très court-métrage Georges-Laoun-Opticien-OBORO

Cocktail de dévoilement
le 28 octobre 2011 à 17 h 30
au 4012, rue Saint-Denis (coin Duluth)
Activité gratuite et ouverte à tous

Diffusion en vitrine
du 28 octobre au 11 novembre 2011

Finalistes

Micheline Durocher
Mario Gauthier
Myriam Jacob-Allard
Jonathan Lemieux
Roberto Santaguida
Roger D. Wilson

Pour la 3e année consécutive, OBORO et Sherif Laoun de Georges Laoun Opticien s’unissent pour faire vivre la création en nouveaux médias dans la communauté du Plateau Mont-Royal. Le Prix du très court-métrage Georges-Laoun-Opticien-OBORO récompense cinq finalistes et un lauréat pour un film de moins de 3 minutes.

Faisant bon usage de leur voisinage et de leur engagement commun envers les arts, Georges Laoun Opticien et OBORO se sont associés pour créer ce prix où chaque finaliste reçoit 100 $, et le lauréat ou la lauréate se voit remettre un prix en argent de 500 $, ainsi que 1 500 $ d’accès en équipement et aux studios du Laboratoire nouveaux médias d’OBORO.

Les œuvres des six finalistes sont diffusées dans la vitrine de Georges Laoun Opticien au 4012, rue Saint-Denis, à Montréal, du 28 octobre au 11 novembre 2011. Le nom du lauréat ou de la lauréate sera dévoilé(e) sur place lors du cocktail de lancement le 28 octobre à 17 h 30.

Georges Laoun Opticien a reçu au printemps 2010 le Prix Arts-Affaires du Conseil des Arts de Montréal dans la catégorie PME pour la mise sur pied de ce projet.

New York Times mentions Lapse at the Optica Festival

michelinedurocher — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 00:34:12 +0000

New York Times

In Transit – A Guide to Intelligent Travel
September 7, 2011, 6:00 am

Experimental Film the Focus at Madrid Festival
By VALERIE GLADSTONE

Experimental video art takes the spotlight at Optica, a festival featuring works produced by filmmakers from around the world. From Sept. 16 to 18, fans and filmmakers alike will gather to screen recent films at La Casa Encendida arts center (2 Ronda Valencia), and other Madrid galleries.

Film fans will also be able to attend lectures, performances and Q&A’s with the artists. Among the festival highlights are screenings of Melanie Menard’s “Ghost House,” which she filmed in several abandoned houses in Ireland, and Micheline Durocher’s surrealistic “Lapse,” a video piece about a swimmer in a bubble of water.

Since its inception seven years ago in Gijón, Optica has become a popular event in other European and South American cities and plans to extend its reach to New York and Los Angeles in 2012.

To prove its inclusiveness, the directors, Patricia Peláez Álvarez and José Ramón González Saiz, have produced an Optica Kit, available by mail, for beginning filmmakers to try their hands at creating their own video art at home.

“We want to encourage encounters with visual experimentation at an international level,” Ms. Peláez Álvarez said. “We seek to provoke reactions in the spectator’s personal world view. Experiment means to go in search of the unknown. We want people to discover how they create their memories.”

Electric Garden (2011) screened in Tucson AZ

michelinedurocher — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 01:35:00 +0000

Electric Garden screened at the Arizona Underground Film Festival which runs from September 16th – 24th, 2011

The Arizona Underground Film Festival is one of the biggest genre film festivals in the United States. It presents many cult films as well. The festival makes it their mission to showcase the work of filmmakers with defiantly independent visions. The festival is open to representing every genre of independent film from across the world celebrating the artist, and their work. Included are categories from Narrative, Horror, Documentaries, Experimental, Animation, and Exploitation category (this is the only American festival to offer an Exploitation category).

The fourth edition of the festival will run 9 days from Sept. 16th to 24th.

You can contact the festival at

info@azundergroundfilmfest.comArizona Underground Film Festival
PO Box 692
Tucson, AZ 85702

The programme:

Sep. 16

7:00 p.m.: Some Guy Who Kills People, dir. Jack Perez. A put-upon loser whose been released from a mental asylum kills those he feels are responsible for his miserable life.

9:00 p.m.: Dragonslayer, dir. Tristan Patterson. This documentary chronicles the life of Josh Sandoval, a skateboarder who lives outside of society, aimlessly drifting from suburb to suburb.
Screening with:
A Fable About Beauty, dir. John Barnard

Sep. 17

5:00 p.m.: /AFK, dir. Greg Stuetze & Alex Stickroth. This documentary explores the addiction that is online gaming, particularly those who are obsessed with World of Warcraft.
Screening with:
Advanced Cybernetics, dir. Steven Day

7:00 p.m.: White Knight, dir. Jesse Baget. A grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan is sent to prison where he has romantic feelings for the warden’s Mexican maid and the only one who can help bridge the communication gap is his Hispanic cellmate. Starring Tom Sizemore, Stacy Keach, Héctor Jiménez and Olga Segura.
Screening with:
It’s What’s For Dinner, dir. Chris Anderson

9:00 p.m.: Charlie Casanova, dir. Terry McMahon. A sociopath wrecks havoc at a hotel while his wife and friends are helpless to stop him.
Screening with:
Pinball, dir. Ruy Veridiano

11:00 p.m.: Ferozz: The Wild Red Riding Hood, dir. Jorge Molina. In a twisted family dynamic, a sexy teenage girl is lusted after by a Satanist practicing male relative.
Screening with:
Electric Garden, dir. Micheline Durocher

Sep. 18

6:00 p.m.: “Beyond the Celluloid Shorts Block”
We Are All Cylons, dir. Ilana Rein
The Secret Friend, dir. Flavio Alves
Facing Rupert, dir. Gregory Erdstein
All Systems Go, Neil Armstrong, dir. Robert Dohrmann
Good Morning, Beautiful, dir. Todd Cobery
Toy Soldier, dir. Jason Sikorsky and Shon Gale
Nanny Goat, dir. Kai Winikka & Erin Darley

8:00 p.m.: Marianne, dir. Filip Tegstedt. A widowed man is left to raise his two daughters alone while he is haunted by an evil spirit that gives him nightmares.
Screening with:
Calamity, dir. Nicholas Watts

Sep. 19

7:00 p.m.: Karate Robo Zaborgar, dir. Noboru Iguchi. A police offer gets a new partner — a karate-fighting robot that can transform into a motorcycle. A loving and hilarious tribute to ’70s Japanese TV sci-fi shows.
Screening with:
Martian Precursor, dir. Brian Lonano, Kevin Lonano

9:00 p.m.: Yakuza Weapon, dir. Tak Sakaguchi & Yûdai Yamaguchi. The exiled son of a Yakuza boss is transformed into a cybernetic killing machine to take down the gang that killed his father.
Screening with:
Attackazoids!, dir. Brian Lonano

Sep. 20

6:00 p.m.: The Beast Pageant, dir. Albert Birney & Jon Moses. A hermit who has his every need taken care of ventures off into a grand adventure with a tiny singing cowboy who bursts from his stomach.
Screening with:
Modern Appetite, dir. Nathan Honnold

8:00 p.m.: The Selling, dir. Emily Lou. A real estate agent is determined to sell a house haunted by the ghosts of a serial killer and his victims.
Screening with:
Bad Time to Sell, dir. Jaz Garewal

Sep. 21

6:00 p.m.: Savage, dir. Martin Jern & Emil Larsson. An ex-con tries to walk the straight and narrow path, but his criminal father tries to lure him back ot his wicked ways.
Screening with:
Summer Knows, dir. Jan Seemann

8:00 p.m.: Of Dolls and Murder, dir. Susan Marks. This documentary shows the use of the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, dollhouse dioramas that help detectives hone their investigative skills.
Screening with:
Murderabilia, dir. David Matthews

Sep. 22

6:00 p.m.: We Are the Mods, dir. E.E. Cassidy. Two female outcasts bond while trying to fit in somewhere at college.
Screening with:
Niche, dir. Eva Alcazar

8:00 p.m.: Advocate for Fagdom, dir. Angelique Bosio. This documentary profiles controversial adult gay movie director Bruce LaBruce.
Screening with:
Acto Primero Escena Cuarta, dir. Elias Brossoise

10:00 p.m.: Dear God No!, dir. James Bickert. A vicious biker gang who love to rape, kill and maim may have just met their match when they meet a young girl taking care of a hideous monster in her basement.
Screening with:
Balls, dir. Jeremy Smith

Sep. 23

7:00 p.m.: The Sandman, dir. Peter Luisi. A young man has romantic dreams about a female coffee shop owner with whom he has a running feud.
Screening with:
To Honor Asphodels, dir. Yana Alliata di Montereale

9:00 p.m.: Snow on Tha Bluff, dir. Damon Russell. An Atlanta crack dealer steals a video camera during a drug deal and begins documenting his own tragic, crime-filled life.
Screening with:
Wanted, dir. Burak Çilsal

11:00 p.m.: The Bunny Game, dir. Adam Rehmeier. A prostitute accepts a ride with a trucker, a decision that might just cost her her life.
Screening with:
Hansel and Gretel, dir. Emma Varker

Sep. 24

3:00 p.m.: “Standing on the Edge Shorts Block”
Feeding Randy, dir. Travis Anderson, Paul Danhauser
The Life Smugglers, dir. David W. Wells
Night River, dir. Irving Gamboa
The Hole, dir. Richard Anderson, Rayme Maldonado Jr.
Fidelity, dir. Ted Willis & Cylan Shaffer
Freaky Fast, dir. Jake Albrecht
The Magic Man, dir. D.C. Kasundra

5:00 p.m.: Sweet Love and Deadly, dir. Paul Clinco. A stripper wants to get rid of her ex-con boyfriend when he’s released from prison, so she seduces a drug dealer into committing the crime.
Screening with:
Cut Out, dir. Nick Kozakis

7:00 p.m.: Dick Night, dir. Andy Viner. A jilted woman tries to get over being left at the altar by her fiance, but the vampires surrounding her home don’t give her time to relax with a new male companion.
Screening with:
Good Taste, dir. Greg Hansen

9:00 p.m.: Sennentuntschi: Curse of the Alps, dir. Michael Steiner. Three lonely Swiss herdsmen build a female companion out of straw and rags that comes to life when the Devil takes pity on them.
Screening with:
Stasis, dir. Grant Nelson

Electric Garden presented at Façade video Festival 2010 Plovdiv

michelinedurocher — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 15:14:08 +0000

Electric Garden was screened at the Façade video Festival 2010.

Façade is a project of Art Today Association – Center for Contemporary art – Plovdiv, The Ancient Bath.

http://www.facade.arttoday.org/participants.php

Façade Video Festival

A project by Jakob Racek, cultural manager at the Art Today Association, Plovdiv, BulgariaOctober 5 ̶ 10, 2010, Plovdiv Old TownIt was for the first time that in October 2010 the Bulgarian city of Plovdiv hosted the international Façade Video Festival. Building exteriors in the picturesque historic city centre turned into screens for video art in all its varieties. The concept of the festival comprised two major ideas:

Instead of being a passive background, urban space is transformed into an active zone, a medium. The rather neglected public space of the Old Town of Plovdiv becomes a vivid place of artistic encounter. Film fans and random passers-by form an audience in a unique surrounding. The facades themselves start to act, talk and move – they become alive.

Video art leaves its hermetically sealed venues, such as galleries, museums and art-house cinemas. It is taken out onto the street to address the public directly. The facade becomes a new medium of encounter between artist and viewer, between art and urban environment. Following this approach, the festival served as a stage where an interested audience, cultural institutions, curators, artists and critics from all over the world were invited to exchange ideas, meanings and experience in the field of contemporary art.

More than 100 competition entries of emerging and advanced video artists from over 25 countries were selected by an international jury. The festival’s main competition panel was accompanied by a series of parallel events. Some of Germany’s most progressive and influential artists in the recent decades were represented in the festival feature “40 Years of Video Art”.

As a portrait of today’s state of video art, the special screening of the Artists-in-Berlin Programme of the DAAD was dedicated to recent works of Deimantas Narkevicius, Armando Andrade Tudelas, Guy Ben-Ner, Agnieszka Brzeżańska, Bethan Huws, Pavel Braila und Phil Collins. Within the open class panel Bettina Steinbrügge talked about “Insights into curatorial practice: Between arts, cinema and performance”. In addition to that, on the occasion of Gustav Mahler’s 150th birthday anniversary the German formation shortfilmlivemusic presented new video art pieces arranged for “a vision’s gleaming sounds”.

Lapse at Optica festival – Madrid Spain – September 16th-18th, 2011

michelinedurocher — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:49:48 +0000

“Lapse” has been selected by the organizing committee of Optica. It will be part of the program of the Optica

Festival in Madrid (Spain), wich will be celebrated from September 16th until the
18th.

The projection will take place at La Casa Encendida (http://www.lacasaencendida.es/en). La Casa is a beautifully unpredictable cultural site because of the quantity and scope of its multidisciplinary activities which focus on international artists and because of the alternative slant it takes on the world. La Casa houses exhibitions, cinema sessions, workshops and more.

Are you Optica?

“Organized by the Asociación Cultural Colectivo Interferencias, Optica offers a forum for interchange and promotion that encourages an encounter with visual experimentation at an international level. To experiment means to go in search of the unknown. Videoart breaks established precepts, conferring prominence on the essence of film: light, sound and movement, in some cases resulting in pure abstraction. That’s why it’s one of the most natural and genuine forms of audio-visual culture, to the degree that it demands a subjective perception of space-time, through the technology of the electronic image.

The Festival seeks to provoke reactions in the spectator’s personal world-view, to stir up his private apprehensions. It aims to explore reality, but via a deconstruction of its constituting elements. Through this festival, the organizers want to discover how we create our memories; how not only fantasy but pre-established patterns come to form part of the articulation of space and architecture; how we domesticate life by resorting to codes.

To set out on the path leading to video art means exploring the byways of observation. An observation which through the years has been transmuted, revealing to us its complicity with history and its discursive potential transformed into cultural image.

More than 200 artists and almost 20 galleries from all the world involved each year in Optica. In addition to parties and other leisure activities, the Festival is structured primarily from the following sections:

Independent artists: One of the key points to define Optica philosophy is the defense of the so-called “intergenerational inclusion.” This is a practice that allows not only enjoy the value of the works themselves, but also cross the languages that exist in the different artistic circuits, and generational groups. Also it facilitates the dissemination of the new talent.

Galleries: The participation of galleries reinforces and enriches the Festival programming.

Information Section: This is a not competitive section. We are approaching to international projects for the diffusion of the audio-visual culture, which have among its objectives:

-To promote the creative expression and motivate reflection about the environment.
-To create a space for education, innovation and creativity.
-To encourage the exchange of ideas, debate and discussion.

Meetings with Artists: This section conforms an exchange format of experiences, in which the border between creator and its environment is broken. In this way, some of the artists can establish a dialogue with the audience through different activities.

In previous editions, as well too Spanish creators, artists from countries like USA, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Peru, United Kingdom, France, Greece, Germany or Japan, visited the Festival.

Performances: Audiovisual live shows of international artists, in which were fused image and sound, giving place to ephemeral art, executed in real time.

Parties: With this type of activity is achieved breaking the coldness that usually rules the artistic world. Frontiers were demolished, oxygen and establishing a two-way path between the creator and social environment around. So it became possible the bringing of more people to explore audiovisual, which represents a unique initiatory opportunity.

The Festival has planned this series of events, out from balance and equality, to preserve, above all, the essence of the festival: the videoart.

OPTICA

La Casa Encendida
Ronda de Valencia 228012

Madrid Spain

Optica web site: www.opticafestival.com/festival_2.htm

Doppelgänger (2011) and Electric Garden (2011) at the MisAlt series in San Francisco

michelinedurocher — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 19:06:56 +0000


	The MisALT Screening Series July 28th 2011 Screening: “Pornography and its Discontents.” Pornography and its Discontents brings together an international and eclectic collection of experimental films and videos that question the power dynamics of visual representation of sexualized bodies and propose new possibilities for the portrayal of sex, pleasure and power. Mature Content – Viewer Discretion is Advised Featuring: Neil Ira Needleman – Prelude & Erotiloop The Prelude: An “in tact” piece of found footage: a solicitation to join a porn distributor’s frequent buyers program. The ErotiLoop: Dense, slowly dissolving layers of wiggly-squiggly scrambled image porn movies. Charles Chadwick – Transubstantiation An esoteric reworking of the rituals and metaphors of transubstantiation. Scott Stark – NOEMA NOEMA is philosopher Husserl’s term for “the meaning of an object that is formed in the domain of consciousness.” Pornographic videos are mined for the unerotic moments between moments, when the actors are engaging in an awkward change of position or when the camera pans meaningfully away from the urgent mechanisms of sex to a cheap painting on the wall or the distant embers of a cracking fire. A piercing musical score loops endlessly throughout, and the repetitive and curious iterations of movement become furtive searches for meaning within their own blandness. Scott Stark – Speechless 3D photographs of human vulvae are animated and interwoven with surfaces and textures from natural and human-made environments. The genital images were taken from a set of ViwMaster 3D reels that accompanied a textbook entitled The Clitoris, published in 1976 by two medical professionals. Anja Dornieden & Juan David Gonzalez Monroy – Awe Shocks An instructional film detailing the manufacture process of a whole new consumer product, as well as its many uses, applications, and benefits. Internet pornography shot through a Kaleidoscopic lens on 16mm film edited together with sound from an instructional children’s film explaining the logic of capitalist enterprise. Mauri Lehtonen – Hollywood Mutant Gang Bang Hundreds of horribly deformed mutants crawl out of the sewers of Los Angeles to attack Hollywood’s rich and famous. Old porn footage has been treated with scratching and permanent markers. Soundtrack consists of distant moanings of pleasure, accompanied by “electronic gang bang music.” Scott Andrews – Neráides Fall of the Subterrestrial Hive In ‘Neráides, Fall of the Subterrestrial Hive’, a fay fantasy world unravels. A cinematic narrative is revealed where boys play with ponies while frolicking limp wristed and glitter skinned through the forest and an alien drag queen commands an army of flying penis monsters. Micheline Durocher – Electric Garden Skirting voyeurism, Electric Garden is constructed upon one mirrored continuous pan of the edges and outlines of the female body and elicits the idea of the well established erotic theme in art, the reclining nude. Micheline Durocher – doppelganger Inspired by the autobiography of Goethe, Doppelgänger conveys the uncanny feeling of being confronted with your double as a fleeting residual image left on the atmosphere of a place such as an old film. It pursues culture’s persistent association of new electronic media with paranormal phenomena, technical obsolescence with nostalgia, anxiety and the erotic.” Clint Enns – Debbie Does Ascii Debbie Does Ascii(an ascii pr0n from a 1981 BBS) is an ascii animation of a scene from Jim Clark’s famous 1978 pornography Debbie Does Dallas. These images, like most pornographic images, are abstracted versions of human sexuality. Lana Z Caplan – Love Poems Love Poems were made as a long distance offering, full of longing, and sent by email. Each one of the three differs in emotion, from the seductress to the hesitant. The footage is from 1940’s 16mm found footage, originally marketed “for art students”, as nudity on film was illegal at the time. Vicky Langan & Maximilian Le Cain – DESK 13 Part of an ongoing creative partnership between sound/performance artist Vicky Langan and experimental filmmaker Maximilian Le Cain, DESK 13 is an experimental film built around a performance by Langan in which she uses her body to interrogate the messy interface between inner desires and their public presentation. 7/28/2011 7:30pm Workspace Ltd. 2150 Folsom St. San Francisco, CA

The MisALT Screening Series

July 28th 2011 Screening:

“Pornography and its Discontents.”

Pornography and its Discontents brings together an international and eclectic collection of experimental films and videos that question the power dynamics of visual representation of sexualized bodies and propose new possibilities for the portrayal of sex, pleasure and power.

Mature Content – Viewer Discretion is Advised

Featuring:

Neil Ira Needleman – Prelude & Erotiloop
The Prelude: An “in tact” piece of found footage: a solicitation to join a porn distributor’s frequent buyers program.
The ErotiLoop: Dense, slowly dissolving layers of wiggly-squiggly scrambled image porn movies.

Charles Chadwick – Transubstantiation
An esoteric reworking of the rituals and metaphors of transubstantiation.

Scott Stark – NOEMA
NOEMA is philosopher Husserl’s term for “the meaning of an object that
is formed in the domain of consciousness.” Pornographic videos are
mined for the unerotic moments between moments, when the actors are
engaging in an awkward change of position or when the camera pans
meaningfully away from the urgent mechanisms of sex to a cheap
painting on the wall or the distant embers of a cracking fire. A
piercing musical score loops endlessly throughout, and the repetitive
and curious iterations of movement become furtive searches for meaning
within their own blandness.

Scott Stark – Speechless
3D photographs of human vulvae are animated and interwoven with
surfaces and textures from natural and human-made environments. The
genital images were taken from a set of ViwMaster 3D reels that
accompanied a textbook entitled The Clitoris, published in 1976 by two
medical professionals.

Anja Dornieden & Juan David Gonzalez Monroy – Awe Shocks
An instructional film detailing the manufacture process of a whole
new consumer product, as well as its many uses, applications, and
benefits.
Internet pornography shot through a Kaleidoscopic lens on 16mm film
edited together with sound from an instructional children’s film
explaining the logic of capitalist enterprise.

Mauri Lehtonen – Hollywood Mutant Gang Bang
Hundreds of horribly deformed mutants crawl out of the sewers of Los Angeles to attack Hollywood’s rich and famous. Old porn footage has been treated with scratching and permanent markers. Soundtrack consists of distant moanings of pleasure, accompanied by “electronic gang bang music.”

Scott Andrews – Neráides Fall of the Subterrestrial Hive
In ‘Neráides, Fall of the Subterrestrial Hive’, a fay fantasy world
unravels. A cinematic narrative is revealed where boys play with
ponies while frolicking limp wristed and glitter skinned through the
forest and an alien drag queen commands an army of flying penis
monsters.

Micheline Durocher – Electric Garden
Skirting voyeurism, Electric Garden is constructed upon one mirrored
continuous pan of the edges and outlines of the female body and
elicits the idea of the well established erotic theme in art, the
reclining nude.

Micheline Durocher – doppelganger
Inspired by the autobiography of Goethe, Doppelgänger conveys the uncanny feeling of being confronted with your double as a fleeting residual image left on the atmosphere of a place such as an old film. It pursues culture’s persistent association of new electronic media with paranormal phenomena, technical obsolescence with nostalgia, anxiety and the erotic.”

Clint Enns – Debbie Does Ascii
Debbie Does Ascii(an ascii pr0n from a 1981 BBS) is an ascii
animation of a scene from Jim Clark’s famous 1978 pornography Debbie
Does Dallas. These images, like most pornographic images, are
abstracted versions of human sexuality.

Lana Z Caplan – Love Poems
Love Poems were made as a long distance offering, full of longing,
and sent by email. Each one of the three differs in emotion, from the
seductress to the hesitant. The footage is from 1940’s 16mm found footage,
originally marketed “for art students”, as nudity on film was illegal
at the time.

Vicky Langan & Maximilian Le Cain – DESK 13
Part of an ongoing creative partnership between sound/performance
artist Vicky Langan and experimental filmmaker Maximilian Le Cain,
DESK 13 is an experimental film built around a performance by Langan
in which she uses her body to interrogate the messy interface between
inner desires and their public presentation.

7/28/2011

7:30pm

Workspace Ltd.
2150 Folsom St.
San Francisco, CA

Electric Garden (2011)

michelinedurocher — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:09:07 +0000

In art, sleeping figures, especially nudes carry a strong erotic charge. For this video, I’ve filled the screen with close-ups of the feet, torso and face implying that the viewer is like a lover right next to the figure and able to touch her. Her reclining pose evokes sexual abandonment. In painting, for the most part, this genre is the province of male artists, and through this video I seek to create a reversal of this tradition.

As well, as a female artist enacting the reclining nude, I seek to claim full control over my self-image, as well as to counteract what has been historically in Western art considered the male hetero-gaze and to question current conceptions surrounding what has become a contentious characteristic of human experience.

Electric Garden

HD/ blu-ray / Betacam SP / DVD / MOV / 00h03m00s / colour/ 2011 / no dialogue

credits:

director/videographer: micheline durocher

camera: josé dupuis

cast: micheline durocher

sound: micheline durocher

editing: rachel echenberg, yuri berger, micheline durocher, anhtu vu

post production : anhtu vu

format: filmed in mini-dv

2011 screenings

Arizona Underground Film Festival, Tuckson, USA, September 16-24.

MisAlt Series, Pornographers and its discontents, San Francisco, USA, July 28.

Doppelgänger (2011)

michelinedurocher — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:05:48 +0000

Doppelgänger conveys the theme of the uncanny, the double as shadow and fleeting residual image. It pursues culture’s persistent association of new electronic media with paranormal phenomena, technical obsolescence with nostalgia, anxiety and the erotic.

Doppelgänger

HD/ blu-ray / Betacam SP / DVD / MOV / 00h04m17s / colour/ 2011 / no dialogue

Credits

Director / videographer: micheline durocher

Camera : josé dupuis

Editor : micheline durocher, anhtu vu

Music / Sound : ancient robot music, micheline durocher

Post-production: anhtu vu

Performer: micheline durocher

Format: filmed in mini-dv, transferred to DVD and HD

Screenings 2011

MisAlt Series, Pornographers and its discontents, San Francisco, USA, July 28.

Northside Film Festival, Williamsburg (NYC), USA , June 16-19.