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Thanks for watching everyone!

Video Pool was very excited to be able to share The Tooth Maker by Amalie Atkins, Imprint by Leah Decter and Threshold Economics by Hope Peterson for 48 hours only!
From Friday, January 16 at 5pm to Sunday, January 18 these three videos from our distribution archive were available for everyone to watch online for free.

The Tooth Maker by Amalie Atkins
2003 | 3:00

A woman discovers she is suddenly toothless! This movie is so scary and sweet it will make you want to eat sugar. Will she ever be able to crunch candy again? Will the toothmaker be able to transform the snow into a new tooth?

 

 

Imprint by Leah Decter
2008 | 6:49

Imprint is rooted in personal and national narratives – stories of refuge sought in a country founded on a Colonial process itself saturated with the displacement. A winter storm insists its presence on an expansive flat plain where a figure performs a ritual in two parts. One is a contest between footsteps and the blowing snow, a marking, unmarking and remarking of territory. The other, a deliberate act of remembrance, is an echo of the Jewish custom of leaving pebbles on a grave. Drawing on notions of agency, memory and loss, Imprint speaks to stories of the movement of people in which location and dislocation are inextricably intertwined.

Missed the online screening? Watch Imprint on VUCAVU now!

 

Threshold Economics by Hope Peterson
2011 | 5:30

Shot over a period of a year and a half in and around a Winnipeg apartment building, Threshold Economics is surveillance video by the occupant subject. This single-channel experimental video poses an unstable visual narrative creating an atmosphere of precarity. The sound design derives from location recordings and was remixed by Michel Germain. “Tinged with a faint influence of radio noir, this cinematic immersion offers a complex of security peepholes, passing shadows, disembodied voices, the music of steam radiators. Whether as an apartment dweller or detective, the protagonist and viewer alike negotiate walls, windowsills and doorways with stealth, caution and a thrifty gaze, dwelling in anticipatory moments between the inside and outside, the private and public, the familiar and the unknown.” (SAW Gallery catalogue, May 2011)

Missed the online screening? Watch Threshold Economics on VUCAVU now!