Video Salon
Click here for printable schedule of 2009 Ingenuity Fest Video Salon.
BLU: Muto 7:25 
An ambiguous animation painted on public walls, created in Buenos Aires and Baden. Accessible on You Tube, the artist allows all non -commercial screenings of his work, in the spirit of open source and street life. http://www.blublu.org/
MEGAN EHRHART: Audition 7:09 and Lucid Lunch 4:54 
Audition: Tuscar’s quiet determination and unlikely success comes forth as he performs a painful three-act audition in front of an unusual audience. Lucid Lunch: Inside fabricated walls, an antique doll and her well-preserved companions picnic as nightmarish elements offer sustenance. Megan Ehrhart is a professor of animation at Cleveland Institute of Art, with an MFA in film (Syracuse University) and a BFA (Maryland Institute, College of Art) in Illustration. Her sculptural and cinematic work shows in galleries, film festivals, and art museums in the US and internationally. http://www.meganehrhart.com/
SUSAN GREENSPAN: Franz Kline #17 Super Clean 3:48 
Franz Kline #17 Super Clean is a video loop composed of abstracted filmed elements from various carwashes across America. It explores ideas of the passage of time, endurance, healing, and serenity. Partly isolated from their original context, the black, white and blue scenes are strange and otherworldly, but are also familiar. In the art context, this routine aspect of car culture and of Americana is re-seen as a ritual cleansing; the everyday becomes a canvas, and the potential for spiritual and emotional renewal otherwise obscured in the quotidian visit to the car wash is revealed. The automobile, of course, is the antithesis of nature, and enlightenment at the carwash is as contained as the video screen. http://susangreenspan.com/
IGOR IMHOFF: Path_0a1046 2:45 
Forms of nature are brought to life in this magical tale of sustenance and creativity. Music: Igor Imhoff. http://www.igorimhoff.eu/
ZAK LONG: Violins_22 2:07 
Colorful animation of abstract forms accompanied to music. Long draws upon the rich history of synthaesthia in art, the experience of seeing music or hearing colors that early 20th century abstract artists, such as Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee, studied. http://zaklong.com/
BRADLEY MCCALLUM & JACQUELINE TARRY: Topsy Turvy 14:35 
This interracial artist couple, dressed in costume of a Victorian Era doll, fly head over heels down the grand hall of a 19th-century New York museum, bringing to life the conflicts symbolized by the black and white rag doll of the Civil War era. In this site-specific installation, McCallum and Tarry appropriate the popular “twinning” or topsy-turvy dolls of the 19th century to examine the duality between white and black, male and female, and father-mother. While exploring the legacy of slavery, much of the performance builds upon their personal experiences as a mixed-race couple. http://www.mccallumtarry.com/
CYNTHIA PENTER: Ephemere 1:18 
Elegant study in black and white, originally shot in 16mm. Ambient sound of falling water. Idea, cinematography and editing by Cynthia Penter. Movement by Laurel VanMetre. “I have looped and stretched this simple movement and gesture like a rubber band in an effort to create a timeless record of beauty, joy and innocence, preserving a moment of my daughter’s childhood. It is her homage to earlier dancers: Isadora Duncan and Martha Graham. My daughter is following her dream to become a modern dancer.” Also, see her July 10 opening of a new show of photography and film and video loops at Jean Brandt Gallery: http://www.brandtgallery.org/
STACIE SELLS & CASSANDRA TROYAN: Coup de Foudre 15:04 
Sophisticated meditation on sexuality and violence towards women throughout history. Collage of many video techniques, layered with spoken and musical soundtracks. Coup de Foudre is a video project made with the purpose of exploring the objectification of women in its many different approaches, in order to confront and conquer these stereotypes. This is in hopes of reaching a new subjectification through the use of images as a language in of itself. In utilizing a language of images, it addresses the rigid inadequacies present in written and spoken language, by providing a greater lexicon for expressing the human experience; especially that of women. http://vimeo.com/1890409
DARIO SOLMAN: Container, The Heart of Perspective, The Making of the Film 7:41 
Solman’s ongoing animated film, created in chapters since 2002. Recently parts were screened in the Queens International 4 exhibition at the Queens Museum of Art. Philosophical musings on rationality versus animal behaviors in human beings. http://filmlog.org/
VENSKE & SPAENLE: Cybersmürf II 2:50 
Stop animation. This artist team creates marble abstract sculptures in installation formats. Here, their own invented character, the “strumpf,” comes to life inside the video monitor. http://www.eingriff.com/
ZHENCHEN LIU: Under Construction 9:56 
Sweeping vistas of the destruction of old Shanghai and the resonance of the ancient culture for its citizens. A recent work by an accomplished international video and film artist. http://zhenchen.free.fr/
DANI LEVENTHAL: Skim Milk and Soft Wax 44:41 
Skim Milk Soft Wax is a documentary filmed in 2007 in Israel, about the Israeli-Gaza situation, contrasting what we are fed by media and what she actually saw during an extended stay in Israel. By weaving interviews and narrative footage with still imagery, Leventhal captures the violent feelings of contemporary population as well as the textures of the timeless landscape. Originally from Columbus, Leventhal now teaches at SUNY Binghamton. See also http://ingenuitycleveland.com/skim-milk-soft-wax.
Cleveland School of the Arts S.T.A.M.P.: nine films 
Students Teaching and Mentoring Photography (S.T.A.M.P.) was founded in 2002 by Cleveland School of the Arts Visual Arts dept. chair & photography teacher Toni Starinsky. The program is based on service, philosophy and enrichment. Today, S.T.A.M.P. continues to strive to enrich the lives of the underserved by using photography as a common vehicle of expression between CSA photo students & alumni, as well as the Greater Cleveland community. S.T.A.M.P. is proudly sponsored by CANON. All the films featured in this bill were created by students who participate in the S.T.A.M.P program. They were all shot using CANON SLR and CANON XLR digital cameras, and were edited on iMac computers using Final Cut Pro software, iMovie, Adobe CS3 and Apple Garage Band. Every aspect of these films from the title sequence to the soundtracks was student-conceived and student-generated, and an integral part of the year’s curriculum.
