THIS WEEK’S FEATURED FILM PREMIERE: "White Noise” (March 22-28)

Written By Michael Workman

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Description
“White Noise” is an abstraction of the social and political concerns currently reverberating throughout the United States. A video that travels through an anonymous American landscape is juxtaposed with the increasingly chaotic sounds of newscasts and punditry. The banal time and space of everyday life take on an ominous atmosphere as the radio gives voice to a stream of issues pulling at our social fabric, while the image of the landscape fragments and falls out of sync with itself, transforming what was once familiar into a threatening experience.

Runtime: 5 minutes 29 seconds
Best Viewed: Cinema Presentation

Director Biography - Soyeon Jung
Originally from South Korea, Soyeon Jung is a cross-disciplinary media artist currently practicing in Binghamton, New York. Her work encompasses experimental video, video installations, performance, and digital media art and design while examining the contrast of social structures, gender roles, and functions of memory from the perspective of someone situated between two cultures. Her projects have been exhibited in exhibitions, screenings, and festivals including SIMULTAN Media Festival (Timisoara, Romania); Cologne Off Video-art Festival (Cologne, Germany); KLEX Experimental Film/Video Festival (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia); the 7 Days Video Series at Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI); Santa Monica Art Studios (Santa Monica, CA); among others. She received her MFA in Media Art at the State University of New York at Buffalo in 2006.

Project Type: Experimental, Short
Completion Date:May 1, 2023
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Language: English
Shooting Format: Digital
Aspect Ratio: 16:9

Michael Workman

Michael Workman is a choreographer, language, visual and movement artist, dance and performance artist, writer, reporter, and sociocultural critic. In addition to his work at the Chicago Tribune, Guardian US, Newcity magazine, WBEZ Chicago Public Radio and elsewhere, Workman is also Director of Bridge, an artistic collective and 501 (c) (3) publishing and programming organization (bridge-chicago.org). His choreographic writing has been included in Propositional Attitudes, an "anthology of recent performance scores, directions and instructions" published by Golden Spike Press, and his Perfect Worlds: Artistic Forms & Social Imaginaries Vol. 1, the first in a 3-volume series, was released by StepSister Press in October 2018 with a day-long program of performances at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Most recently, two of his scores were accepted for publication in a special edition of the Notre Dame Review focusing on the work of participants in the &NOW Festival of Innovative Writing.

https://michaelworkmanstudio.com
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