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The Mask Task

Josephine Decker

<p><span style="color:#ff0000"><strong>Release Date: July 1, 2018</strong></span></p> <p>With documentary audio material and Butoh dance, the multi-age performers are invited to take shapes, organize themselves in nightmare poses and free-form improvisations and create moving tapestries that allow our audience to create its own interpretation of the mysteries of human emotion, stress and fear.</p> <p dir="ltr">&quot;The Mask Task&quot; released on July 1, 2018 is part of a ten-chapter science anthology series &quot;Mosaic&quot;. This ten-chapter film is about identity in its natural and artificial forms. The film examines, through a hybrid creature&nbsp;Mosaic, how&nbsp;interactions with other beings shape our existence. The series is composed of ten chapters directed by ten emerging filmmakers and features stories from the most influential scientists of our time. Release on July 1st. Every week, a new chapter!</p> <p dir="ltr">Directed by Josephine Decker</p> <p dir="ltr">Produced by Olivia Lloyd</p> <p dir="ltr">Cinematography by Devon Catucci</p> <p dir="ltr">Edited by Joe Nankin</p> <p dir="ltr">Butoh Choreography by Mariko Endo and Stacy Smith</p> <p dir="ltr">Children&rsquo;s Choreography by Mariko Endo</p> <p dir="ltr">Production Manager: Ted Day</p> <p dir="ltr">Production Designer / Costume Designer: Chantelle Adams</p> <p dir="ltr">Assistant Camera: William Castellucci</p> <p dir="ltr">Sound Mixer: Viktor Weiszhaupt</p> <p dir="ltr">Gaffer: Sean Gradwell</p> <p dir="ltr">Light Board Operator: Jude Feingold</p> <p dir="ltr">Production Assistant: Sydney Stewart</p> <p dir="ltr">Director&rsquo;s Assistant: Justin Sansone</p> <p dir="ltr">Special Thanks</p> <p dir="ltr">Mariko Endo</p> <p dir="ltr">John Desotelle Studio</p> <p dir="ltr">Joseph Garreffa &nbsp;(Community School Director)</p> <p dir="ltr">Educational Alliance</p> <p dir="ltr">Boys &amp; Girls Club</p> <p dir="ltr">After 3 Arts Program of P.S.142</p> <p>LABOCINE ORIGINAL</p>

Wound (2020)

Luis Gutiérrez Arias Kevin Gonzales

<p>Two immigrants recount the changes brought about by their journeys to the U.S., paralleling that of cells migrating in response to a wound.</p> <p><em>ISFF13 Symbiosis</em></p>

Singularity Song

Rachel Mason

<p>Singularity Song&quot; is a meditation on black holes, pairing legendary butoh dancer, Oguri, with the voices one of the world&#39;s leading theoretical physicists, Kip Thorne and black hole physicist Rana Adhikari. Oguri performs the human embodiment of imagined life within a black hole as a narrator describes the events which occured billions of years ago which led to the breakthrough first detection of gravitational waves, in 2015. This detection earned the team of Kip Thorne, Barry Barish and Rai Weiss the Nobel Prize in 2017.</p> <p>Oguri&#39;s body floats and undulates through textures of metallic fabric as voices describe the mystery at the center of the black hole. The center has been called &quot;a point of infinite density&quot; or the &quot;singularity&quot; and as Thorne&#39;s voice expresses in the piece, if we can understand the singularity, we can understand the origins of the universe.&nbsp; A song composed and sung by Rachel Mason&nbsp; weaves in and out of vocalizations by indie rock icon Carla Bozulich and experimental composer Anna Homler. These sounds were recorded by Rachel Mason at a noise show at Zebulon in Los Angeles, California.</p> <p>Kip Thorne is revered for his groundbreaking work on black holes, gravitational waves and speculations about the possibilities of time travel through wormholes. His work was the foundation for Christopher Nolan&#39;s Interstellar.&nbsp; Rana Adhikari one of the chief architects of LIGO and an expert on black holes. Mason&nbsp; conducted&nbsp; interviews with Thorne and Adhikari at their Caltech offices. Singularity Song is the first part of a larger project called &quot;The Moving Mountain,&quot; a fiscally sponsored program of Fulcrum Arts, whose goal is to create new works of live performance and film based upon the poetic imagery that emerges from conversations with physicists.</p> <p>A Moving Mountain Production</p> <p>The Moving Mountain is a project of Fulcrum Art&#39;s EMERGE Fiscal Sponsorship Program</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

Deforest

Grayson Cooke

<p><em>Deforest</em>&nbsp;is an art/science project that combines environmental critique with material enquiry. In this project, sulphuric acid &ndash; a highly corrosive acid that burns to the touch &ndash; is used to dissolve photographs of old growth rainforest from subtropical Queensland.</p> <p>Deforestation is one of the key planks of anthropogenic climate change. It is responsible for around 12% of the world&rsquo;s greenhouse gas emissions, and also causes erosion and biodiversity loss. Our forests are vital carbon sinks, but they are also repositories of extra-human time, a kind of &ldquo;memory of the earth&rdquo; that is erased daily to serve the needs of the present. Within the context of the Anthropocene, deforestation is an urgent touchstone for the threshold between economic and environmental imperatives in both developed and developing nations.</p> <p>This project focuses on these issues in a unique way.&nbsp;<em>Deforest</em>&nbsp;seeks to find a media analogue for the depletion of the world&rsquo;s forests, using photographic media and a corrosive acid to &ldquo;materialize&rdquo; deforestation along different channels than the documentary record. The ruin of the image, the experience of its loss, and its relation to the world at large lies at the core of this project.</p> <p>Time-lapse photography is used to record the complex interaction between the acid and the slide film. The image is accompanied by music by Matthew Bourne and a soundtrack composed primarily of environmental recordings in the Bunya Mountains, a temperate rainforest in South-East Queensland and the site of the photographs used in this project.</p>

Excréments d'automne (Autumn excrement)

Genevieve Anhoury

<p>More living beings live in the top few centimeters of soil than on the entire surface of the planet. This shows the importance of this humus, which nourishes plants and helps maintain ecological balance. An episode from the series &quot;Night of the Living: Journey to the Heart of Rot.&quot;</p>

The Circadian Cycle

Garry Stewart

<p>Using the dancing body as a metaphor, The Circadian Cycle examines morphology, biological rhythm and animal behaviour. The film charts a day from sunrise to evening, moving through cycles of nature, from nascence and awakening to predation and death.&nbsp;</p>

Rhinospider - An Operation In Three Acts

Luzi Katamay

<p>Highly complex ideas from medicine and research are embedded into experimental storytelling.&nbsp;The result: a kind of artistic performative &ldquo;Activity&rdquo; gameplay. A non-verbal explanation attempt.&nbsp;Illuminated Point and Click inside a human brain. Dancing science!</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

Apoptosis (Programmed Cell Death) - Live and in 3D

by Nanolive

Collective Cellular Response

by Sriivatsan G Rajan

Cellular Dynamics and Circadian Clocks

by Pablo Meyer