OFFICIAL SELECTION at the 2001 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL
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Interactive Frictions, University of Southern California, 1999
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OFFICIAL SELECTION at the 2001 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL |
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| PREMIERE EXHIBITION: Interactive Frictions, University of Southern California, 1999 |
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| "This is a story about a woman who is haunted by circling images, trapped in violence. She asks you to enter her experience and her search for release." This brief text introduces an interactive world created by award-winning independent filmmaker, Nina Menkes, whose films all feature her sister Tinka Menkes as a deeply alienated woman in powerful resistance against violent, inhospitable landscapes. In this world Menkes tried to find the core energy field which fuels the work the two sisters have created over the past fifteen years, a field she calls The Crazy Bloody Female Center. Combining the bold visual language and aesthetic rigor of independent film at its best with the interactivity of digital media, this CD-ROM enables interactors, as in dreams, to draw from a reservoir of highly charged, deeply connected images and sounds and to reedit them with intriguing narrative twists. Menkes collaborated with Labyrinth designer Kristy H.A. Kang and programmer William Hughes on the interface design. |