Mills Folly Microcinema presents Project Projection Fall 2024, a program of locally produced film and video, Wednesday, October 9, 2024, at 7:00pm. Free admission, donations encouraged.
Join us for an evening of experimental films, poetic documentaries, music videos, and animation produced by filmmakers who reside in Madison and Dane County. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. A Q&A session with the filmmakers in attendance will follow the screening.
The following films will be screened in the program. The order of the films will be announced in the program notes at the screening.
30 Moving Type Studies: 16 Letters, 30 Seconds | MIchael Doyle Olson | 2024 | 15:00 minutes
Everything you need to know is in the title. Michael Doyle Olson got his formal start in video at WYOU – Madison's bygone public access channel. Since then, he has deployed his prowess to stick it to the man, get noticed by the man, collect a paycheck from the man, become the man and, ultimately, start the cycle anew. Michael has worked professionally as an editor, animator, cinematographer, title designer, box truck driver, production assistant, craft services angel, hand model & much more.
October | Gregg Williard | 2020-2024 | 2:56 minutes
October is a drawn animation about a woman climbing a tree, falling, climbing again, and falling again. She gets up, and walks into a fallen world. My films look back to some of the earliest drawn animation: Emile Reynaud, Winsor McKay, Betty Boop and Krazy Kat, Popeye, Max and Dave Fleisher. I like to work within very strict technical limitations, (pencil drawings scanned frame-by-frame, self-composed sound tracks), with figures and scenarios that largely obey conventional gravity and time to induce a dream state.
Space Film | Dale Kaminski | 2015 | 1:00 minute
In 2015, I participated in a project entitled Forever Now by the Australian artist group Aphids. The idea was to make a worldwide call for audio or video work to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Voyager space probe mission. Each participant would submit 1 min of audio or 1 min of video. If the jury selected your piece for inclusion, it would be bundled with others and sent to NASA where the scientists would place it on an interstellar mission effectively reprising the golden record that Carl Sagan curated for the Voyager mission. The reality is that now very few if any of the space missions have plans on leaving the solar system. So, NASA took the digital package and using their equipment broadcast the package into space.
flaring memories | Shico | 2024 | 1:56 minutes
A flicker film on memory inspired by rapidly blinking and made using scrapped projects and home videos.
The Artist I've Become | Al Rasho | 2024 | 7:49 minutes
Rich Lo's work is a combination of public art and children’s literature, deeply rooted in the rich traditions of Chinese heritage. Through his art, he seeks to celebrate and promote Chinese culture, ensuring its stories and values are shared and preserved for future generations. His work digs into the immigrant experience and journey to success in America, interwoven with the rich and unique history of Chicago’s Chinatown.
Dyslexia Libros | David McGowan | 2013 | 2:19 minutes
Short portrait of a small and quirky used bookstore (Dyslexia Libros) and a small bar (Café No Sé) in Antigua, Guatemala. Inteview with bookstore manager Bill McGowan. Camera and editing by Al Rasho.
Short Videos from Paul Harvey Oswald | PHO | 10:00 minutes
Paul Harvey Oswald is/was a collective of artists based in Rockford, Illinois active from the early 1990s until 2008. This is the first screening of PHO work since at least 2008. PHO is resurrecting itself for a retrospective show in Rockford, including new material, in 2025. PHO member Kevin Cronin will be in attendance.
A Drop in the Ocean | Tim Geurkink | 2007 | 2:32 minutes
A short vacation highlighted with slow motion memories of chill water and a motivation to let music guide the way.
Modalities of Time and Space | Liz Sexe | 2021 | 6:13 minutes
I hope you enjoy seeing the outside work come inside and the various little critters that appear as you are taken on a sonic and visual journey in Modalities of Time and Space.
Directed and Edited by Liz Sexe. Music and Appearance by Tim Russell. Modalities of Time and Space was made right after Liz Sexe purchased a new camera. Sexe set up auto focus and improvised with the framing. There are also various shots from a near by park, critters that Sexe had in her studio, a demon painting from the basement left from the last tenants, and a painting of a bird. These are all brought into the composition using the tools found in DaVinci Resolve. Sexe loves the possibilities of green screen/chroma key and in this short exploration she took the opportunity to see what she could find. Tim Russell, Sexe's partner, was jamming on guitar in the dinning room during parts of the exploration. His sound score provides the sonic landscape.
Why Physical Therapy Matters | Nicholas R. Wootton | 2024 | 1:37 minutes
A note of thanks to Chelsea Porst.
fall light | Alex Jacobs | 2023 | 8:14 minutes
A street lamp going really hard. Film editor & experimental filmmaker Alex Jacobs edited the recent feature length horror film, In a Violent Nature (2024). His shorts snow light & hdyk screened in Project Projection last year, and snow light also screened at the Wisconsin Film Festival this year. Music by borpis.
Alone_03 | A. Bill Miller and Jeff Herriott | 2024 | 4:10 minutes
together alone
being not becoming
connecting not connecting
communication failure
"Alone_##" is a series of animated artworks begun in 2022 and still developing. The animation comes from a combination of motion capture sessions with generative 3D modeling of text characters. The music is influenced by the same motion capture data that drives the visual elements. A. Bill Miller is an Associate Professor of Art and Design at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. He earned his MFA at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2008 and has exhibited or screened his work nationally and internationally. Jeff Herriott is a composer whose music gently shifts and bends at the edges of perception. He creates unhurried music, us-ing slow-moving shapes and a free sense of time.
Boink! | Lauren Addison | 2013 | 2:39 minutes
Boink! was a spontaneous collaboration of artists who had too much time and energy to kill one Sunday afternoon. Originally shot with slow moving choreography, editor Chris Huth turned it into something fun and unexpected.
Today | Kiesen Williams, Hayden Woodard, Matthew Thompson | 2:21 minutes
A music video for Croix du Nord, an indie folk musician based in Madison, Wisconsin.
More titles may be posted as the Wednesday, October 9 screening date approaches!
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.
