{"id":88920,"date":"2020-06-12T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=88920"},"modified":"2020-06-13T16:12:34","modified_gmt":"2020-06-13T21:12:34","slug":"oxford-film-festival-week-8-projections-shorts-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/oxford-film-festival-week-8-projections-shorts-block\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford Virtual Film Festival Week 8: Project(ions) Shorts Block"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Get tickets<\/a>
Live Q&A set for Sunday, June 14 at 3 pm CST
Total running time: 57:33<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Between the Eyes 2<\/em><\/strong>
Director: <\/strong>Heehyun Choi
Country: <\/strong>USA
Running Time: <\/strong>2:48 minutes

A mass of space continuously emerges between the squared gazes. The gazes around a camera, each pointing at different directions, instantly create worlds of various dimensions. This video attempts to twist the linear connection between those worlds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Camera Sick<\/em><\/strong>
Director:<\/strong> Jeremy Moss
Country:<\/strong> Morocco,
Running Time:<\/strong> 13:16 minutes

The earth spins while bodies and cameras wind and rotate on its surface. Sand particles infest recording devices scratching unravelling celluloid. The camera and its operator transform from seers to ecstatic performers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cornered<\/em><\/strong>
Director: <\/strong>Raquel Salvatella de Prada
Country:<\/strong> USA
Running Time:<\/strong> 8:21 min

Part sculpture, part light installation and video animation, Cornered is an immersive visual experience that represents the motivation and struggles of migrants making an attempt to cross the border from Morocco to the Spanish cities of Melilla and Ceuta situated on Africa\u2019s mainland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dreams & Nightmares<\/em><\/strong>
Director: <\/strong>John Alston
Country: <\/strong>USA
Running Time:<\/strong> 3:20 minutes

A juxtaposition of horror and beauty, using a classic animation method.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dreamscape #1 – Lovers<\/em><\/strong>
Director: <\/strong>Nata\u0161a Prosenc Stearns
Countries: <\/strong>Slovenia\/USA
Running Time:<\/strong> 7:03 minutes

Inspired by Fragments of Lover’s Discourse by French philosopher Roland Barthes, the film plows into elusive substance of fantasies and dreams of lovers. Dreamscape #1 – Lovers<\/em> is a moving collage, which integrates human body with organic world. The process of layering connects visual elements and leads to fragments of narration. The film explores the themes of connectedness, oneness and identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Etude 2A: Overtones<\/em><\/strong>
Directors:<\/strong> Laura Ivins, Benjamin J. Penwell
Country:<\/strong> USA
Running Time:<\/strong> 5:25 minutes

Exploring the musical concept of “overtones,” this film is a playful, feminist study in the plurality of visual and auditory meanings of the term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Memory IX Utopos\/Dystopos<\/em><\/strong>
Director:<\/strong> Gloria Chung
Country:<\/strong> USA
Running Time:<\/strong> 7:30 minutes

Hello. This is the visual log from one of the first voyages to the outlands. Video clips taken during trips have been reimagined into a science fiction narrative, pondering utopias\/dystopias, climate change, and \u201cStar Trek\u201d planetary locations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Origami Tutorial<\/em><\/strong>
Director:<\/strong> Heehyun Choi
Country:<\/strong> USA
Running Time: <\/strong>5:51 minutes

While repeatedly folding a piece of paper, you will be introduced to somewhere you’ve never expected. What is an image? What is a \u200breality? What is a film?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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