IFFR regular US-director Andrew Norman Wilson returns with Silvesterchlausen, on a mysterious tradition of the same name that takes place every New Year’s Eve in Switzerland’s Appenzell.
Ode to Seekers 2012 is an infinite loop that celebrates the existence of mosquitoes, syringes and oil derricks via a translation of the formal techniques of John Keats' Ode on a Grecian Urn from printed text to video.
An unhoused character impersonator on Los Angeles’ Hollywood Boulevard seeks connection to the world through radical, Hollywood-oriented conspiracy theories that they consume by way of a Bluetooth headset soldered into the helmet of their storm-trooper-like costume.
The Uncertainty Seminars abstract corporate aesthetics across several sections, conflating modes of address from avant-garde cinema and video art with contemporary therapeutic and motivational techniques. The techniques involved address forms of uncertainty in personal, professional, and civil life.
The first section employs a 75mm to 1500mm Canon telephoto lens developed for wildlife cinematography. This uncannily prolonged zoom moves from a cityscape view to details on a single balcony of Chicago's Marina City. The second section employs 8K photorealistic computer generated materials...
Due to his video and interview based investigations of a top-secret, marginalized class of book-scanning workers on the campus of Google headquarters, Andrew Norman Wilson was fired from his job there as a video editor. Workers Leaving the Googleplex is the result of these investigations.
A semi-biographical fiction inspired by his father’s work at one of Kodak’s first processing labs, Wilson’s speculative gloss on the evolution of photochemical science entwines multiple perspectives and personas. Co-written by James N. Kienitz Wilkins, Kodak imagines a dialogue between a...
In 2010 the physicist Aaron O’Connell and his colleagues proved that a strip of metal, visible to the naked human eye, can both oscillate and not oscillate at the same time. Essentially this means that objects, whatever their size, can be in two places at once. From here it starts to seem like...
What happens inside a Poké Ball with space and time? This is one of several questions we face in a tale told in amphetamine-fuelled voice-over. The repeated act of zooming into a multi-purpose residential skyscraper breaks open modern family domestics to reveal increasingly bizarre tableaux. A...
