Running time: 9:43
Native format: 3D-DCP (2K) / Quicktime MOV (Anaglyph 3D)
Stroboscopic glimpses of Victorian domestic surfaces and geometric shadows transform the physical world into an impressionistic fantasia as sensory abstraction and narrative linearity are forced to co-exist. Elsewhere, a spectre emerges from the depths of German expressionist cinema to remind us that what goes up always comes down.
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Screenings:
2023
– Shorts by Blake Williams (solo retrospective), Anthology Film Archives – New York City, NY
2021
– Stereo Unrest: The 3D Videos of Blake Williams (solo retrospective), Container: Brisbane Film Society – Brisbane, Australia
2019
– Infrared: Color Theory, Anthology Film Archives – New York, NY
– 3D: optiske eksperimenter, sanselige oplevelser, Danish Film Institute – Copenhagen, Denmark
2018
– LOST FUTURES, Genesis Cinema – London, UK
2016
– Lines that we follow, shapes that we create, Transient Visions: Festival of the Moving Image – Johnson City, NY
– INFRARED: New Visions from the Queer Underground, TWIST: The Seattle Gay & Lesbian Film Festival – Seattle, WA
– International Competition, ARKIPEL Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival – Jakarta, Indonesia
– Experimental Shorts, Melbourne International Film Festival – Melbourne, Australia
– CC14 – CROSSROADS: thank your body for its strength and power, Cellular Cinema – Minneapolis, MN
– Competitive Screening #3, Haverhill Experimental Film Festival – Haverhill, MA [Award: Juror Mention]
– Chromatics, Winnipeg Underground Film Festival – Winnipeg, MB
– Competición Vanguardias, FILMADRID Festival Internacional de Cine – Madrid, Spain
– thank your body for its strength and power, CROSSROADS – San Francisco, CA
– Flicker & Wow: The Dockworker’s Dream, Big Ears Festival – Knoxville, TN
– Opening Night Program, Onion City Film Festival – Chicago, IL
– Pleats of Matter: The Films of Blake Williams (solo retrospective), Acropolis Cinema – Los Angeles, CA
2015
– event #4, Rubicon Cinema – Akron, OH
– Competition Program #4, Alternative Film/Video Festival – Belgrade, Serbia
– Magasinet Walden visar Mary Helena Clark, Swedish Film Institute – Stockholm, Sweden
– Fascinations, Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival – Jihlava, Czech Republic
– Projections Program 1, New York Film Festival – New York, NY
– Wavelengths 1: Fire in the Brain, Toronto International Film Festival – Toronto, ON