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March 24 · Regal Riviera · 2:15 P.M.

55 minutes

Prepare to be hypnotized. Working against the expectation that 3D is an essentially front-to-back phenomenon, this mesmerizing quartet of films stretch and ripple through space horizontally — across time — revealing worlds as chaotic as they are plasmatic.

Twelve Tales Told

Johann Lurff, 2014, 4 minutes

Twelve beginnings, twelve studio logos, twelve jingles, twelve endings. Thanks to the wide availability of 3D blu-ray, Austrian structuralist Johann Lurf was able to adapt his triumphant 35mm short film into this 3D version, which magnifies and underscores the all-encompassing bombast promoted by Hollywood.

Insight’s Cataract

Willy Le Maitre, 2008, 8 minutes

“Using stereoscopic imagery as a means of exploring the intersections of exterior and interior vision” (Chris Kennedy), Canadian multimedia artist Willy Le Maitre finds links between psychedelia and primitivity. Proving that an image’s surrealist potential is heightened in proportion to its proximity tothe mundane, Insight’s Cataract hyper-virtual worlds presents a reality both familiar and alienating — an image of nature at once comforting and phenomenologically unsettling.

more than everything

Rainer Kohlberger, 2018, 13 minutes

Celebrated “noise” artist Rainer Kohlberger’s first stereoscopic work, wherein optical patterns and abstractions parade across our eyes with alarming disparity. “Humans and other animals that have their eyes attached towards the front of their bodies see the world with binocular vision. Stereoscopic seeing enables a precise perception of depth. This film challenges this perceptual apparatus that interacts with the brain to generate a coherent image of the surroundings.” (Kohlberger)

2012

Takashi Makino, 2013, 30 minutes

An overlay of “everything [he] saw in 2012,” Takashi Makino’s pulfrich 3D wonder overwhelms our partially-obscured vision with impossibly dense fields of dirt, scratches, twigs, and debris. Superficially resembling a moving Abstract Expressionist masterpiece, 2012 becomes, via the unique qualities of the pulfrich lens, a spiralling vortex of matter and illusion.