Mills Folly Microcinema presents Project Projection Fall 2023, a program of locally produced film and video, Wednesday, September 20, 2023, at 7:00pm. Free admission.
Join us for an evening of experimental films, poetic documentaries, music videos, and animation produced by filmmakers who reside in Madison and Dane County. Seating is limited, and doors open at 6:30 p.m.
Titles subject to change, and additional titles may be added before the September 20 screening date. Below is the current lineup and screening order.
Spring Flies | Al Rasho | 2023 | 3:42
A video poem. Something I wrote 25 years ago, finally put images and music to in 2023. It's a personal poem about my stage in life.
Piles | Sean Welch | 2022 | 4:02
Piles explores the skills of humans to sort objects and stack them. For example, short-lived pyramids of woodchips near the filmmakers home in Madison, Wisconsin. The piles, adjacent to a prairie and walking path, became a new place on a familiar landscape.
Pretty Baby | Austin Duerst | 2013 | 8:00
An after school special for the avant garde. Fresh out of rehab, a young woman spirals out of control while looking for her next fix. Starring Kaitlin Huwe. Music by Tyler Fassnacht.
<gibberish> | Emmalee Pearson, Tony Brungraber | Work in Progress | 4:15
An exploration of sights and sounds that may initially feel familiar, even divine - but end up being nonsense after all.
Ed Gein’s Musical Instruments | Steve Chappell | 2023 | 7:00
An irregular interview with Ed Gein about the instruments that were found in the old family farmhouse after his arrest.
Asumaya - Unified | Luke Bassuener | 2020 | 4:00
Produced for an artist residency program called Of Water, Land and Sky. I was paired with an environmental organization called Glacial Lakes Conservancy and spent the summer/fall of 2019 creating work in response to a piece of land they were preserving. The result was an album of music made of bird sounds, splashes and other field recordings, a series of prints, and this animation that ties some of those things together.
Hdyk | Alex Jacobs | 2023 | 3:59
A friendly conversation about what's real, desperately communicated through a heavily damaged signal. Starring Bianca Martin, with music by Borpis.
[Archive] | Casey Nieman | 2020 | 5:42
A photographic library of textures, colors, shapes, and forms. Featuring over 300 stills, the film navigates through intimate conversations between friends regarding self-perception, identity, and aspirations.
College | Casey Nieman | 2022 | 2:22
A frame-by-frame animation featuring over 700 photographic stills captured during my undergraduate experience. The film expresses the many positive and negative feelings someone may experience while discovering themselves in a new environment.
no mint in winter | James Kreul | 2023 | 8:30
Eight shots captured between July 2022 and June 2023. Static camera. Movement within the frame. Attention may or may not be drawn to the power plant; water glass; abandoned crutch; fire truck; snow plow; dart board; hallway window; security light.
“Turn the Radio On” (J.E. Sunde) | Dru Korab | 2023 | 3:54
Turn the Radio On was created out of raw POV european tour footage shot by Andrew Thoreen, and using a custom projecting and filming rig to provide lateral movement, was refilmed around the SE midwest. Over many nights with hundreds of takes, we explore the organic nature of texture, motion blur, and color space as the projector shines through the scenes, objects, and subjects, building a storyworld out of place yet familiar. Contributors: Luke Magalsky, Sara Korab, Casem AbuLughod, Andrew Thoreen.
O Tired Love I Do New Things | Dru Korab and Brandon Jordan Brown | 2021 | 8 minutes
Chaos vs mantra. Everything is everything. Is this novel or familiar? Droning on and on, we walk the same path over and over, yet new each time, trying to make sense of repeated emotions and sound, picking up nuances along the way. A soft nod to Baudrillard.
Projected Pareidolia: Experiment 1 | Meggen Heuss | 2023 | 2:00
First in a series of capturing pareidolia in the wild. An experiment of layered motion and stills.
ABOUT MILLS FOLLY MICROCINEMA
Mills Folly Microcinema showcases nationally recognized experimental film and video art from the festival and microcinema circuit. We network with regional filmmakers and organizations to bring filmmakers and guest programmers to Madison for screenings. And we incubate local experimental filmmaking by providing screen time at Project Projection events.
