Running time: 6:48
Native format: Quicktime MOV (Anaglyph 3D)
An anaglyphic found footage film about machines and landscape that interlaces motion with stasis, staccatos with glissandos, and reds with blues. Its three movements depict a parked Chevy Caprice police vehicle, a montage of trips along Montréal’s Turcot Interchange, and a not-quite-empty basement rave room.
Screenings:
2023
– Mirrors, FILMADRID International Film Festival – Madrid, Spain
– Shorts by Blake Williams, Anthology Film Archives – New York City, NY
– Preceding a 16mm screening of Michael Snow’s Wavelength, Nicholson School of Communication, University of Central Florida – Orlando, Florida
2021
– Stereo Unrest: The 3D Videos of Blake Williams (solo), Container: Brisbane Film Society – Brisbane, Australia
2018
– LOST FUTURES, Genesis Cinema – London, UK
– Channels: A Quarterly Film Series, Film Studies Center – University of Chicago, IL
2017
– Altered States Mar del Plata Film Festival – Mar del Plata, Argentina
– Jury’s Choice, Sebastian Buerkner: Reunion, 25 FPS Festival – Zagreb, Croatia
– Inner Distances, Nightingale Cinema – Chicago, IL
– X-Ray: Space, Royal Academy of Fine Arts – Ghent, Belgium
2016
– upon maelstroms of unbearable reality (and throughout dimensional spectrums), CROSSROADS –
San Francisco, CA
– Technicolor, Les Rencontres Internationales – Berlin, Germany
– Pleats of Matter: The Films of Blake Williams, Acropolis Cinema – Los Angeles, CA
– Technicolor, Les Rencontres Internationales – Paris, France
2015
– event #4, Rubicon Cinema – Akron, OH
– Breathing in the Territory, Transient Visions: Festival of the Moving Image – Johnson City, NY
– Flicker and Wow: Experimental Shorts 1, The Public Cinema – Knoxville, TN
– The City Echoes, Winnipeg Underground Film Festival – Winnipeg, MB
– 3D in the 21st Century, BAMcinématek – Brooklyn, NY
– Theme: The Third Image – 3D Cinema as Experiment, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen – Oberhausen, Germany
– The Influence of Anxiety, Images Festival – Toronto, ON
– Anaglyphic Analogies: Films by Blake Williams, On Screen @ Blaffer – University of Houston, TX
– Shorts Program Five, Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival – Chicago, IL
2014
– Fascinations, Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival – Jihlava, Czech Republic
– Projections Program 9, New York Film Festival – New York, NY
– Wavelengths 2: Something in the Atmosphere, Toronto International Film Festival – Toronto, ON
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