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Showing: Fri 10PM, Sat 10PM, Sun 4PM
Warehouse 32
From the producers of Shockwaves, the breakthrough feature film
premiering Spring 2013…
“The Drowning,” the award-winning 3 screen experimental film, explores
the impressions running through a man’s mind in the moments before his
death: the sensation of time slowing down, of heightened bodily
perceptions, and the simultaneous unreeling of an internal cinema of
images that create an unconscious narrative of personal history and
emotion.
Director: Kasumi
Kasumi, a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow, is internationally celebrated as a
leading innovator of a new art form synthesizing film, sound, video,
and emerging technologies. She has won global acclaim for her
experimental films and video art in venues worldwide, from her Lincoln
Center appearance with Pinchas Zukerman and The New York Philharmonic
to live performances with Grandmaster Flash and DJ Spooky, and has
performed and exhibited work at Württembergischen Kunstverein
Stuttgart and at the Chroma Festival de Arte Audiovisual in
Guadalajara, Mexico.
Her film Breakdown, which premiered at Carnegie Hall with the American
Composers Orchestra, won Vimeo’s Best Remix award 2010. She was
awarded an EMPAC Dance Movies Commission and has created video art for
performance with The Cleveland Orchestra. Her film The Free Speech
Zone, cited in The Encyclopedia of Underground Movies, was featured at
the Forum des Images in Paris, the Milano Film Festival, Expresión en
Corto, Mexico City, and the Sapporo International Short Film Festival
where it won First Prize.
An associate professor at the Cleveland Institute of Art, book author,
essayist, film-script writer, Academy Award-nominated soundtrack
composer, and former Baroque musician with four LP albums, two
Carnegie Hall performances, and international concert tours to her
credit, Kasumi has received the Adriano Asti Award for Best
Experimental Film at Montecacini, Italy; Director’s Citation at the
Black Maria Film Festival; Seoul Film Festival’s Special Jury Award;
Best Experimental Film at IFP Chicago and Sapporo International Film
Festival; and others. Her work has been screened at festivals in
Iran, the Slovak Republic, Turkey, Japan, Korea, Romania, Italy,
Germany, Mexico, Holland, France, England, the U.S., and Canada, and
displayed at distinguished institutions including Muzeul Florean,
Romania; Itau Cultural Center, São Paulo; The Butler Institute of
American Art; The Museum of Fine Art, Houston; The Cleveland Museum of
Art; Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro; San Diego Museum of Art;
Instituto Superior de Arte del Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires; and
Anthology Film Archives, among others.