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Film Close at Hand

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The short films in this program, curated by Chris Kennedy and Vanessa O'Neil, bring to mind the tagline "look closer" — which American Beauty (1999) used to exhort viewers to peer behind the veneer of suburban America. But tonight's offerings put a less seamy spin on the phrase, by cutting out the voyeurism and paying more attention to natural detail. Their subjects are largely elemental — flowing water, shifting shorelines, weathered stone — with humankind's impact on the scenery framed as almost comically insignificant. Witness, for example, John Price's futile and aimless shooting in gun/play, as compared to the industriousness of insects in Charlotte Pryce's Concerning Flight.

– Matt Sussman

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