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Film: Shorts
Dark House

When

Sunday Nov 30, 2008 (7:30pm)

Where
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (701 Mission St, 415.978.2787)
Price
$10
Details
http://www.sfcinematheque.org/calendar.php
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In Dark House, four experimental short films play with emptiness in architecture and examine the innate human desire to fill blank rooms with something: people, history, a story. Ben Rivers sets the melancholic and noirish tone of the collection with House, an avant-garde collage of an abandoned residence in decay. Rivers superimposes the dilapidated imagery on a flickering torchlight and further layers his film with a soundtrack lifted from overly worn found sound. Michaela Grill and Martin Siewert's Cityscapes takes a different approach to debunking the oft-assumed permanency of architecture, utilizing archival footage to illustrate the evolving nature of an expanding city's skyline. Robert Todd's Office Suite and Arianne Olthaar's Zoo Enclosures round out the omnibus.

Ilya Tovbis