Ann Arbor Film Festival 2009

What happens when you get into trouble with a not-so-nurturing nurse?

A 2nd part to the triptych started with Hymn to Pan, a material action poetic film about doom and love within nuclear death. Soundtrack: David Kristian

The film begins with a brief flash of molten-red grain followed by a long scene of darkest night-blue sea ripples. Hexagonal refractions and spectral rays puncture alluded-to landscapes—rivers, skies, prairies, trees, mountains. Graphic (yet spatially free-floating) imagery slices intently wrought rhythms of light and dark color fields, producing afterimages. The film concludes with bright, almost-discernable window shapes, hinting at an opening to a different realm.

Original music by Patrick Gleeson and Terry Riley.

A moving portrait of the bustle and permanence of a city, "Dahlia" juxtaposes the stable forms and patterns of life with the frenetic behavior of humanity, set to a driving score of vocal percussion.

For a period of time, while we believe it to be perfectly still, lifeless flesh responds, stirs and contorts in a final macabre ballet. Are these spasms merely erratic motions or do they echo the chaotic twists and turns of a past life

Abstract animation describes the people and minds of those involved in the Jeju 4.3 event and resistance on April 3rd, 1948 in modern Korea, which led to the deaths of over 30,000 people and an island being branded as the "Red Commie Island" as a result of a divided nation and ideology.

A monochrome flat image changes slowly into a theatrical spectacle in which color subtly melts and solidifies lines and conical forms. At the end, the colors lose their power and all that is left is the basic structure of the image, 'the skeleton'. The second film by Vegter created with the Fourier transform.