Fantastical deteriorating video narratives, metaphysical workout videos, music videos, Wu-Tang, TGIF nostalgia, and experimental animations and documentaries by Philadelphia artists including Ryan Trecartin, Sarah Christman, Dave Dunn, Ted Passon, Andrew Jeffrey Wright, Chris Ward, and Michael Robinson.

The Small Change film screening series has spent the last four and half years bringing the best experimental work from around the world to Philadelphia and now is hitting the road to bring the best experimental work of Philadelphia to the rest of the world.

Program:

Tommy Chat Just Emailed Me by Ryan Trecartin
Video-7min-2006
Trecartin's fantastical video narratives seem to be conjured from a fever dream.  Collaborating with an ensemble cast of family and friends, the 26 year old Trecartin merges sophisticated digital manipulations with footage from the Internet and pop culture, animations, and wildly stylized sets and performances.

 Hairdryers/Blue Pumpkins by Chris Ward
Video-4min-2008
Lost souls lead viewers to hidden places that only starlight children can navigate.

Private Dance Movie by Chris Ward
Video-4min-2008
Metaphysical workout video with found footage echto-grams.

 Dear Bill Gates by Sarah Christman
16mm/Video-17min-2006
A simple correspondence evolves into a poetic visual essay exploring the ownership of our visual history and culture. Combining original and archival film, video and images from the internet, "Dear Bill Gates" draws unexpected connections among mining, memorey, and Microsoft.
Won awards at: San Francisco International Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, and Santa Cruz Film Festival.

 Ich Bin Ein Manipulator by Andrew Jeffrey Wright & Clare E. Rojas
16mm-6min-2003
Fashion magazine are improved with the help of white-out and magicmarkers in this sequel to the original "Manipulators.

White Bear, Brown Tail by Andrew Jeffrey Wright
Video-1min-2001
An animation about what's inside us all.

Light is Waiting by Michael Robinson
Video-11:00min-2007
A very special episode of television's Full House devours itself from the inside out, excavating a hypnotic nightmare of a culture lost at sea. Tropes of video art and family entertainment face off in a luminous orgy neither can survive.

Throws by David Dunn
Video-2:30min-2006
Made using a CVS disposable video camera.

Tree by David Dunn
Video-5min-2005
Every fall since 2002 I have shot video in the tree outside of my parent's house.  This is footage from 2005.

Dopeness by Ted Passon
HD Video-2:10min-2007
Music video for Philly rap group, Plastic Little, featuring MC Nobody's Child (aka Kurt Hunte) as a pop-locking doctor who makes his rounds admist dancing nurses and patients.

Finger Bangin by Ted Passon
Video-5:30min-2005
This music video for the Philly based pop-dance Sweatheart, stars Andrew Jeffrey Wright as a dedicated high school teacher trying to teach his students about finger banging.  "Remember God gave some of us wangs, but he gave all of us fingers."

Space 1026 by Ted Passon
Super8/16mm-21min-2007
A portrait of a community of artists and the building in Philadelphia that anchors them together.  Comprised of over ten years worth of documentation this short (with plans to be eventually not as short) examines he challenges and successes of artists with little resources trying to create a work space that would later unexpectedly flourish into a community space.     www.space1026