6pm Courthouse Theater
Fuck Logic
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We think we're so smart, with our super-conducting supercolliders, Human Genome projects, artificial hearts and Theories of Everything. Yet for all our faith in logic and reason, we can't get enough temptation islands, Viagra with crystal and pasty politician sex lives. Is something amiss with the Enlightenment? These shorts take us on a wild ride through the messy side of mind, compelling reminders that our brains are squishy gray stuff with the consistency of a good crème brulée. Featuring work by Ho Tam, Dean Otto & Marjorie Thieman and Neil Goldberg. Curated by the Festival Committee.

Erika In Amerika (Antonia Baehr and Shawn Atkins, 1999, USA, 16mm, color, sound, 12 min.) In the land of plenty, why can't Erika find the money to complete her film? This self-referential short explores the impossibility of explaining its creator, whose milk is desired by all.

Bus No. 7 ••• (Ho Tam, 2001, USA, digital video, color, sound, 3 min.) Bus logic, pure and simple, as the artist follows the route he used to take as a child.

Flying Sculpture • (Pierre-Yves Clouin, 2001, France, digital video, color, sound, 4 min.) Ever wonder what's taking the person in the airplane restroom so long?

A System for Writing Thank-You Notes ••• (Neil Goldberg, 2001, USA, digital video, color, sound, 8 min.) Highlighting the ultimate function of human logic, this video details a man's system for accepting an unacceptable loss.

I Swallowed the Sea and The Sea Swallowed Me • (Michael Velliquette, 2001, USA, digital video, color, sound, 4 min.) The life preserver is under your seat.

Background #3 • (Gabriel Cyr, 2001, USA, video, tinted b&w, sound, 3 min.) Looping video and static explore the relationship of space and visual information.

Semiotics of the Bitchin' ••• (K8 Hardy and Therine Youngblood, 2001, USA, video, color, sound, 10 min.) A restaging of Martha Rosler's canonical 1975 feminist video Semiotics of the Kitchen.

Sans Titre • (Maïa Cybelle Carpenter, 2001, USA, 16mm, color, silent, 7 min.) Gorgeous, color-abstracting expressionist film remains as interpretively elusive as ever.

Minnesota Mean • (Dean Otto and Marjie Thieman, 2001, USA, digital video, color, sound, 3 min.) A cautionary tale about the consequences of feigning ignorance, starring a leprechaun and a psychedelic bunny. Where's me pot?

Election 2000: Bush Quotes (C.B. Cooke, 2000, USA, digital video, color, sound, 11 min.) Talking heads wag in these excerpts from the hotly contested Bush-Gore debates. Innocuous campaign rhetoric from a year ago casts an unsettling perspective on the future.

World Without Femmes, Part III: Street of the Discounted ••• (A.K. Summers, 2001, USA, digital video, color, sound, 13 min.) An amnesiac, bald-headed dominatrix wanders the funhouse corridors of a post-apocalyptic pedestrian mall, bombarded by the detrius of commercial culture, in this digitally animated delight.

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