MY TEARS ARE DRY
'Effective magic is transcendent nature.' - George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans), 'Middlemarch'

BR: 'The sun is California-hot, the sky the sort of blue that you've only ever seen as recollection through half-lidded eyes. Palm trees and a naked hand, a song that has long been echoing in your chest…

THE SEASONS
BR: 'Any claim to the contrary, that video does not constitute a world unto itself, is tossed to the elements herein. This ecosystem is a theater, that star is a projector beaming light through the trees. This is not a metaphor. Jim O'Rourke's music is the wind in our leaves, the bird call and…

WEATHER DIARY 3
George Kuchar (1942 - 2011): 'Shot in 8mm video and edited entirely in the camera, this picture deals with meteorological and sexual desire on the Plains. It's the only movie in the series where I interact with storm chasers. I'm a storm squatter as I never learned how to drive a car. The young…

LICHENS (PASTORAL)
LICHENS is Robert AA Lowe. Utilizing a microphone, a loop pedal and sometimes little else, Lowe's performances are both trance-inducing and transformative. The resulting music exists as a real-time reflection of internalized experience; a near-mystic illumination of symbiosis, serendipity and…

"Effective magic is transcendent nature." - George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans), "Middlemarch"

BR: "The sun is California-hot, the sky the sort of blue that you"ve only ever seen as recollection through half-lidded eyes. Palm trees and a naked hand, a song that has long been echoing in your chest. There is a body-memory that goes by the name of cinema, and this is what it feels like."

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BR: "Any claim to the contrary, that video does not constitute a world unto itself, is tossed to the elements herein. This ecosystem is a theater, that star is a projector beaming light through the trees. This is not a metaphor. Jim O"Rourke's music is the wind in our leaves, the bird call and cracking of ice; Takashi's work is a full planet's rotation around the sun in thirty minutes" time."

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George Kuchar (1942 - 2011): "Shot in 8mm video and edited entirely in the camera, this picture deals with meteorological and sexual desire on the Plains. It's the only movie in the series where I interact with storm chasers. I"m a storm squatter as I never learned how to drive a car. The young meteorology student who pays me a visit was someone I met in Wisconsin at a screening of my films/videos a few years before. This was his first visit to Oklahoma to chase tornadoes, but the storm season proved to be a dry one. His presence lubricated me on a more personal level, and our friendship helped to sweeten the sourness that happens when nature doesn"t "put out"."

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LICHENS is Robert AA Lowe. Utilizing a microphone, a loop pedal and sometimes little else, Lowe's performances are both trance-inducing and transformative. The resulting music exists as a real-time reflection of internalized experience; a near-mystic illumination of symbiosis, serendipity and syncronicity. Through collaboration Lowe has worked with White/Light, Michael Zerang, Joshua Micah Abrams, Alan Licht, Hisham Bharoocha (Black Dice / Soft Circle), Rose Lazar, Bird Show (Ben Vida), Doug Aitken, Patrick Smith, and Om. He is the main performer in Ben Rivers and Ben Russell's upcoming feature film "A Spell To Ward Off the Darkness".

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