http://zerofunction.com Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:43:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en YOU ARE HERE is an intellectually adventurous movie that explores the nature of consciousness, the relationship between technology and our sense of self, and what happens to a mind when it spends too long inside an experiment of its own devising. The first feature by internationally successful video artist Daniel Cockburn, YOU ... http://zerofunction.com/you-are-here/synopsis/ .Have you heard about the dictionary for masochists?. It has all the words in it. They're just not in any particular order. . . . . . . . http://zerofunction.com/you-are-here/intro/ TRACY WRIGHT   R.D. REID   ANAND RAJARAM   NADIA LITZ   SHANNON BECKNER RICHARD CLARKIN   JENNI BURKE   ROBERT KENNEDY a new feature-length motion picture written & directed by Daniel Cockburn produced by Daniel Bekerman and Daniel Cockburn executive producers Matthew Stone and Brenda Goldstein a zeroFunction / Scythia Films Production . . . http://zerofunction.com/you-are-here/follow-the-red-dot/ DANIEL COCKBURN ......... FILMMAKER / VIDEO ARTIST official website. For information on Daniel Cockburn's first feature You Are Here, starring Tracy Wright, go here. .           “Toronto’s best new video artist. Last year’s Metronome was shockingly inspired, mixing Wittgenstein, movies, and pattern theory.  This year Cockburn continued the heady ideas and subtle performance...”     - Cameron Bailey "He has a ... http://zerofunction.com/announcements/practical-dreamers-conversations-with-movie-artists/ Souls at Zero Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Pulse The death of the horror movie is so habitually lamented that its future is often limited to meta-irony and nostalgia. The climax of The Blair Witch Project (1999), in which its doomed documentarians were isolated in the spaces defined by their cameras, had the air of ... http://zerofunction.com/souls-at-zero/full-text-19/ BEN COONLEY INSTALLATION FOR DOMESTIC CATS Cinematexas Short Film Festival, Austin, Texas Sept. 14-23 “The installation invites cats to consider their split status as autonomous residents and decorative fixtures of the contemporary human domicile.  Humans… are given a window onto the way cats see themselves and the way humans consume non-object-based art.”   Coonley may ... http://zerofunction.com/ben-coonleys-installation/full-text-18/ VIDEOS BY MIRANDA JULY Tranz<—>Tech 2001, Latvian House, October 12 a co-presentation by Mercer Union, Pleasure Dome, and Artcite / House of Toast Is it perversely ungrateful to fault an audience for being too receptive?  Probably, so please forgive me…  In the warm glow of a packed Latvian House, July’s The Amateurist came ... http://zerofunction.com/videos-by-miranda-july/full-text-17/ Screensplitting Is the purpose of an anniversary to lose oneself in nostalgia for the numbered years gone by, or to prepare a new vision for the unnumbered ones to come? Both, of course… but it’s easier to talk about the past than the future. The past can be counted and recorded ... http://zerofunction.com/screensplitting/full-text-16/ Why I Hate Steve Reinke [Pleasure Dome catalogue essay for Why I Like Ugly Boys: recent videos by Steve Reinke Dec. 14 2002 Toronto] Please imagine as you read these words that they are not written, that you are not reading them, but rather that you are hearing them as the voiceover of a ... http://zerofunction.com/why-i-hate-steve-reinke/full-text-15/ MISFIT BLISS: Confessions of a Sociopath and other movies that don’t fit Each time we see a man walk on the wire, a part of us is up there with him… the experience of the high wire is direct, unmediated, simple, and it requires no explanation whatsoever.  The art is the thing ... http://zerofunction.com/misfit-bliss/full-text-14/