Just before the opening press conference of the festival, the journos are invited to what has become a permanent installation (over the course of the fest of course) display of some installation set-ups that use various forms of the moving image. This year’s group (see names above and the family picture below with curator Shari Frilot) includes actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt Orwellian side project….
Tracey Snelling’s series of of playmobil sized maquettes could easily be the mapping of a modern grid of Orson Welles’ Touch of Evil.
….Gordon-Levitt’s project began same time last year – you can surf the web to see what he is up to or simply press the red button and participate….
….Iceland’s Ragnar Kjartansson’s five-channel project reminds us that no matter how far we look that music has its place regardless of the setting….
….one panel of his film shows a gigantic piano in what appears to be the middle of nowhere….
