Running time: 6:48
An anaglyphic found footage film about machines and landscape that interlaces motion with stasis, crescendos with glissandos, and reds with blues. Its three movements depict a parked Chevy Caprice police vehicle, Montréal’s Turcot Interchange, and an empty rave room.
Screenings:
2021
– Stereo Unrest: The 3D Videos of Blake Williams (solo) – Queensland Film Festival, 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
– 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, Germany
– The Influence of Anxiety – Images Festival, Toronto, ON
– On Screen @ Blaffer – Anaglyphic Analogies: Films by Blake Williams – 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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