Michael Ironside and I
2K 1,33:1, Sound, Colour, 15 min, 2021
Synopsis
I revisit fictional rooms of a nineties childhood, while thinking about what has become of their inhabitants - male, tech-savy adolescents.Stills
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Festivals, Exhibitions and Screenings
European Media Art Festival Osnabrueck 2021
EMAF-Media Art Award of the Association of German Film Critics (VdFk)
International Short Film Festival Hamburg 2021
ZINEBI International Festival of Documentary and Short Film, Bilbao 2021
...von möglichen Welten. Regionale 22, Kunsthalle Basel, CH
curated by Elena Filipovic and Renate Wagner
KFFK Short Film Festival Cologne 2021
blicke. Filmfestival des Ruhrgebiets, Bochum 2021
Alternative Film/Video Belgrade 2021
"The accumulation of information is more associational than investigational but it conveys a gradual process of awakening to an ideological toxicity emanating from these images and the industrialized systems of gendered violence that they codify. The three productions also represent different stages of the male techie protagonist lifecycle, with distinct aesthetic attributes accompanying each: the cozy white suburban high schooler bedroom in WarGames; the sprawling collegiate dorm room clutter of Real Genius; the geometrically dense, claustrophobia-inducing workstations in SeaQuest. Consistent throughout them are shiny metallic surfaces, flickering screens and consoles lit like Christmas trees, as if the array of technology pulses with the promise of consolation and deliverance, a deeper portal within the cinema screen. Through a deceptively anodyne procession of images and observations, Michael Ironside and I steadily cuts a path through the cold comfort of the Hollywood male techno-geek mythos until it finds its own passage out."
Kevin B. Lee for filmexplorer.ch
Installation view, Regionale 22, ... von möglichen Welten, 2021. Kunsthalle Basel, CH
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