RUBBLE ON SCREEN: SHORT FILM PGM
The final program of the series is comprised of shorts that condense the myriad affects elucidated by the preceding works. Here, the wrecking ball and excavator become central players as humans largely exit the drama, leaving inanimate objects the task of carrying high tragedy and comedy. In Milèna Trivier's elegiac 12 AUGUST 2002, the filmmaker frames the demolition of a brick gable from below and against the sky, a towering sentinel pummeled, its pieces sold for scrap. Conversely, in Jacob Burckhardt's playful JawwZZZ, bright orange excavators lose their menace and become bumbling figures as they devour concrete and shift twisted metal, construction crews hosing down the creatures as zookeepers would elephants. Critique remains pointed though in Dominic Angerame's IN THE COURSE OF HUMAN EVENTS, an anti-city symphony that, instead of celebrating the triumphs of urban technological progress, explores the remnants of de-industrialization in a black and white moonscape bereft of human presence. William Raban TIME STEPPING (1974, 19 min, 16mm-to-digital) Dominic Angerame IN THE COURSE OF HUMAN EVENTS (1997, 23 min, 16mm) Miléna Trivier 12 AUGUST 2002 (2002, 10 min, video. Voiceover by John Berger.) Anna Thew LFMC DEMOLITION (2004, 9 min, 16mm-to-digital) Jacob Burckhardt JawwZZZ (2024, 15 min, digital. Soundtrack by Lary 7.) Louis Lumière & Auguste Lumière DEMOLITION OF A WALL / DÉMOLITION D'UN MUR (1895, 1.5 min, 35mm-to-DCP)