Disturbances

Films

DIGITAL UNDERGROUND

Disturbances shorts program
Saturday, August 26, 3:30pm, ATA

Disturbances focuses on the bizarre, the disconcerting, and disorderly experiences. These shorts disturb our normal expectations of reality. Nitwit Predelick assaults conventional logic, while Susana Donovan's Haunt #451 confronts conventional understanding of space, time, and the history of the Universe. The Collector, The Flocculus, Jeff, and Charm expose us to disturbed characters, who react to their circumstances in abnormal ways, perceived as psychotic. Hangman and Let's Get Medical animate innocuous objects in an eerie, almost malevolent manner. The Halflifers (including Whitney Biennial artist Anthony Discenza) video Mess Hall, perverts the normal operation of video technology and narrative structure to create a distorted spectacle of mundane actions. Similarly, Close to the Edge abducts a banal television character (naming him would be telling) and places him in a smack-ridden sleazy plot.

Nitwit
Predelick

Haunt #451

The
Flocculus

Hangman

Let's
Get
Medical

Mess
Hall

Close to the Edge