RPM Festival: New England Student Showcase
Experimental films, featuring works by students in New England college and university programs.
Submissions include experimental films, documentaries, essay films, and animation pieces - or any work existing outside the cinematic norm (analog, celluloid or digital). The final 14 short films were chosen among 42 submissions from students attending 12 different area colleges.
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7:00 PM: Local Winds
Guest Curator Brett Melican
Brett Melican is a filmmaker based in Boston, Massachusetts whose work mixes narrative and experimental forms, exploring fractured relationships and psychological isolation in a blend of genres. He is a member of the AgX Film Collective, and helps organize and program local film festivals alongside work in camera and lighting departments on independent and commercial productions.
9:00 PM: Home and Away. The Documentary and Avant-garde Films of Barbara Meter
Curated by Robin Roblee-Strauss
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Home and Away features one biographical documentary and four short avant-garde films by filmmaker, Barbara Meter. As one of the first women to study at the Netherlands Film Academy in the 1960s and co-founder of Amsterdam's Electric Cinema, a bastion of avant-garde film and ideas in the 1970s, Barbara has been a pioneer in the production and promotion of experimental filmmaking in the Netherlands. In a 1971 interview, Barbara describes her work as “pure films”, conveying “thoughts and feelings by pure movement, a pure image that may flicker or be blurred, and by intervening in the process of developing and printing the film.” Through her innovative use of optical printing methods, she seamlessly massages, and reworks found sounds and images: combining them with her personal archive. She remolds these documents into distinct, deeply personal sense worlds.
In cooperation with the Revolutions per Minute Festival.
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