Presented by Southern Exposure and the SF Film Society
November 7, 2010 9:00 PM

Cross Cuts A screening of experimental video and film by Bay Area artists

Chris Sollars’ selections for Cross Cuts are videos that are concerned with figure ground opposition. Through found material, inanimate figures and patterns are animated, rolled, or blocked in relation to physical or psychological space.

Pipe Roll, 2009
2:03
Wide shot of landscape with a pipe rolling into and out of frame.

Colon Pattern, 2010
0:42
Pattern portrait of Ian Colon through crash zooms on his clothes with Quadrospazzed by Thee Oh Seesfrom their album The Master’s Bedroom Is Worth Spending A Night In played through a car stereo.

Sheet, 2009
2:51
1970’s sheets changing positions in Marin, CA.

Abu Ghraib, 2004-2006
0:48
Undressed Apple ipod commercial figures with uncovered images from Abu Ghraib.