Tonight, we view new videos by Stephanie Barber and celebrate her new book (packaged with a DVD of the six films and videos) These Here Separated to See How They Standing Alone Or the Soundtrack to Six Films by Stephanie Barber. The book includes the text of spoken narration from Barber's award-winning experimental work, including her groundbreaking and widely shown titles, "dogs," "metronome," and "catalog," together with three brand new videos.

Stephanie Barber's chapbook, poems, was published by Bronze Skull Press in 2006. Her films have shown internationally, including solo shows at MoMA, Film Festival Rotterdam, New York Film Festival, and other museums and galleries.

Tonight’s program:

dwarfs the sea
2007 dv 7 min
small biographies and musing generalizations--men's relations to each other and their lives. there is hope and loneliness, companionship and isolation and the simplest of filmic elements to contrast the complexity of human emotions. the delicacy of the formalist writing moves the listener from intimacy to universalism and back again, swaying gently to and fro like the rocking of a ship.

the visit and the play
2008 mini dv 8 min
first the ladies visit, then go to watch a play. On a television, in a snow garden.
In many ways the play references the cadence of the ladies conversation—the tedious animosity and lack of attentive or appropriate response. In the end, all I want to think about lately is the art of conversation. The various directions this art takes and the way the writing of a conversation necessarily halves a character.

the inversion, transcription, evening track and attractor
2008 mini dv 13 min
how looking at what has become the skeletons of photographs is a visual lecture on
aesthetic pleasure or emotion. and how being, almost entirely denied of this pleasure,
or having the pleasure merely suggested induces a viewer to ruminate on the act of viewing and that of wanting to view. and maybe it is evolution which causes this anxiety and art form. A series of collages recreating the photographs of well known artists (uta barth, kohei yoshiyuki, candida hofer, deborah willis) and a very slight suggestion of the actual photographs. The soundtrack is composed of approximately 25 statements on photography.

the end of the world
2002 mini dv, 30 min.