BNMI Co-Production Archives 'D'
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Dance and the Camera
During the autumn of 1992, The Banff Centre hosted the event Dance and the Camera, a workshop designed to explore dance in relation to video. This compelling documentary chronicles this workshop, and details the challenging collaborations between five choreographers, directors, and composers, as facilitators worked to educate a dynamic group of artists about the potential power of dance for the screen. The workshop was facilitated by Bob Lockyer, executive producer of dance for the BBC, in association with the British Council.
Co-producer: Woodrow MacPhail (Banff, Canada), 1993
Format: Video, Length: 28 minutes
Dancing with the Virtual Dervish
The virtual space created by Dancing with the Virtual Dervish provides interaction and chance participation between artists and public. A dancer in goggles and gloves interacts with intelligent and controllable computer generated objects while a series of projections behind the dancer displays those objects. This project explores the mediation of inner and outer vision via technology using algorithmic liquid architecture, and navigable music to construct an open-ended series of interconnected worlds. The performance was broadcast live through teleconferencing creating interactive sites in Austin, Banff, and the Santa Monica Electronic Café.
Co-producers: Marcos Novak, Diane Gromala and Yacov Sharir (United States), 1995
Format: VR Installation
DarNet Projects
The University of California Digital Arts Research Network, in collaboration with BNMI worked to coproduce three new media projects in 2001. This coproduction facilitated development and provided prototyping support for the following projects: the
“No Time” project by Victoria Vesna, “Agent Research” by Robert Nideffer and the “Inversion” project by Bill Seaman and Regina Van Berkel, an exploration of dance and technology.
Co-producers: Victoria Vesna, Robert Nideffer,
Bill Seaman (California, United States), 2001
Format: Dance Installation, and Website
Dear Carry
Dear Carry is a video essay about travel, cameras, and the passage of time. Based on the travel films of Caroline Wagner (1896-1993), a New York jewellery designer, self-styled feminist, and amateur filmmaker who traveled around the world on ocean liners and freighters from the 1920’s to the 1960’s. Dear Carry is crafted as a letter which interweaves Carry’s films and correspondences with the filmmaker’s own from a trip to Zimbabwe in 1995. The result is a poignant meditation on film, independence, and travel, both past and present.
Co-producer: Joel Katz (Brooklyn, United States), 1997
Format: Video, Length: 45 minutes
Design Research
(Fleck Fellowship Project)
In 2005, Fleck Scholar Ron Wakkary and team worked in collaboration with BNMI to augment an existing research program, investigating how designers and non-designers engage design activities. Ron Wakkary’s team (Dan Evernden and Alissa Antl) implemented intensive participant studies to observe how people talk about and engage in design activity. The residency informed their research directly, developing and modifying the design of their study, and provided an opportunity for preliminary analysis.
Co-producer: Ron Wakkary, Dan Evernden and Alissa Antl (Vancouver, Canada), 2005
Format: Project Development
Developing: The Idea of Home
This CD-ROM explores concepts of community and neighbourhood in local environments and cyberspace. Project designer Nancy Buchanan has shown her work in galleries and museums in the United States and Europe, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the New Museum in New York, and Steirischer Herbst in Graz, Austria. She has received fellowship support from the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council, and the city of Los Angeles.
Co-producer: Nancy Buchanan (Los Angeles, United States), 1995
Format: CD-ROM
The Digital Schoolroom
As the Information Age shifts into overdrive, the computer is revolutionizing the way people learn. Do computers humanize or dehumanize education, and can they be used more efficiently in schools to teach students of all ages? This eight-part series and website explores the current and future challenges of bringing the educational systems of today into the digital era. Insights, opinions, and concerns are voiced by teachers, technologists, bureaucrats, researchers, and students, which initiates an open debate to determine the value of computers as effective and powerful learning tools in the classroom.
Co-producers: ACCESS, 1999
Format: Video, Eight-Part Television Series, and Website
Dinner at Jane’s
Dinner at Jane’s, a documentary video examining women’s culture and public life, began in May 1993 with the overnight placement of one hundred half-ton rock monuments on the streets of downtown Chicago. Each rock bore a bronze plaque acknowledging the important contributions of a Chicago woman. On September 30, 1993, the Full Circle project ended with a simple but significant event; 14 international women activists, including Gloria Steinem, Susan Faludi, and Anita Hill, attended a special dinner. The details of this event, including behind-the-scenes coverage and individual interviews, form the content of this documentary.
Co-producers: Suzanne Lacy and Michelle Baughan (Oakland, United States), 1999
Format: Video, Length: 50 minutes
Dirty Laundry
This experimental narrative film interlaces metaphor, sexual fantasy, and racial stereotype to explore the history of Chinese immigration in the early 20th century. The film follows a young Chinese-Canadian man, as he ponders the link between his uncle's possible homosexuality and his own personal desires, during a long train ride through the mountains of Quebec. The history of Chinese men who immigrated to Canada, with valuable commentary by scholars, and the young man's sexual and emotional attraction to a handsome train attendant, are intertwined in this refreshing look at this rarely explored topic.
Co-producer: Richard Fung (Toronto, Canada), 1996
Format: Video, Length: 48 minutes
Disembodied Voices
With the introduction of new technologies into urban environment, the lines between the sane and the insane are becoming blurred, adding to the chaos, confusion, and intricacy of life in the city. Technology is changing the concept of personal space. “Disembodied Voices” is an interactive web piece that investigates notions of personal and public space, specifically where the two coincide. Using cell-phones as a trigger or icon for dialogue, this website creates a series of interrupted conversations that confront the engaged viewer simultaneously.
Co-producer: Jody Zellen, (Santa Monica, California, United States), 2003
Format: Interactive Website
DIVE
This film follows a woman, portrayed by dancer Paula Josa-Jones, as she returns to the ruins of the building where she was once institutionalized. As the character dives into her memories and re-enacts the archetypes battling within, multiple characters surface: a hopeful young woman, a middle-aged gossip, and a runaway older woman hovering in the trees. As a magician-like card player, this character conjures her own journey. In the film, director Ellen Sebring layers imagery, which flows into a stream-of-consciousness narrative. While at The Banff Centre, Ellen composed, arranged, and mixed the soundtrack for this eloquently textured video piece.
Co-producer: Ellen Sebring, (Cambridge, United States), 2004
Format: Video, Length: 15 minutes
Doma/domain
This experimental documentary returns the filmmaker to her family’s country of origin, looking at post-revolutionary Eastern Europe. Through interviews, intimate family footage, landscape photography, and accompanied by a soundtrack of traditional music, this film explores the changes that take place within one family, at the onset of political revolution. Doma/domain is a poignant look at change through the eyes of those who resist it, and examines tradition, culture, and family in times of hardship and joy.
Co-producer: Lisa Trofimova (Lethbridge, Canada), 1995
Format: Video, Length: 48 minutes
D’Or et D’Asphalte
This feature length documentary takes a luscious and layered look at the life, characters, and events of three French circuses. D’Or et D’Asphalte, (From Gold and From Asphalt) is both a single channel video and an installation piece full of drama and colour. This film was coproduced by the Banff New Media Institute, and contributes to an extensive body of video and installation work by renowned French director Sylvie Marchand.
Co-producer: Sylvie Marchand (Poitiers, France), 1995
Format: Video, Length: 52 minutes
DownsideUp
DownsideUp is a one-hour documentary about how a visionary art initiative is working to revitalize the economy of North Adams, one of the smallest and poorest cities in Massachusetts. This once grand city is attempting a large scale museum project, in an effort to use art to break out of a long period of economic decline caused by the closure of numerous local mills. With the opening of the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) in North Adams in May 1999, this blue-collar city could become a living laboratory for a very unusual approach to economic renewal.
Co-producer: Nancy Kelly (California, United States), 2000
Format: Video, Length: 60 minutes
Drawing oN Air (dN/a)
Drawing oN Air (dN/a) links trends in art and exhibitions with open, participatory systems working on the evolving architecture of the internet. Primarily featuring website formats, dN/a produces spatially dispersed ‘thematic webs’ connecting creative practice to works of criticism, science, and popular culture. The Science of Information was an exhibition and website designed for the Walter Phillips Gallery, curated by Laura Trippi, and featured three web projects by new media artists Edward Poitras, John Simon, and Sophie Tottie.
Co-producer: Laura Trippi (New York City, United States), 1996
Format: Installation, Website
Dream Kitchen
In this CD-ROM, participants navigate what appears to be real time kitchen simulation program as used by architects to display interiors to clients. However, beneath the surface of this banal domestic world runs a parallel interior zone populated with inspirited objects. This subterranean zone could be interpreted in many ways: a catalogue of dread, a cabinet of memories, or an archive of fantasies. Occasionally, viewers may stumble through a ‘leaky border’ into this underworld where objects play out their base desires upon one another. Each visit to the underworld causes the sparkling kitchen to degrade, ultimately becoming an obscene domestic science experiment.
Co-producers: Josephine Starrs and Leon Cmielewski (Australia), 1998
Format: CD-ROM
Dreams of the Night Cleaners
Through a visually rich blend of drama, archival, and documentary footage with video imagery, Dreams of the Night Cleaners weaves together the many stories that radiate from Usha and her night shift cleaner friend, Devika, a recent immigrant from India. Prevailing cultural mythologies have devastating effects not only on public policy and public attitudes, but on individual lives. From both a personal and historical perspective, this art video examines Asian immigration to Canada, racism, sexism, and employment fears in an uncertain marketplace. Dreams of the Night Cleaners was developed in collaboration with the National Film Board of Canada.
Co-producer: Leila Sujir (Calgary, Canada), 1996
Format: Video, Length: 48 minutes
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