{"id":6812,"title":"Finishing Funds","kind":"event","url":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/finishing-funds-4","version":"7765744b877920420c89a4f83c75530268154cbd8cb55caf42ad610cee5ba6eb","modified":"2011-05-16T14:19:00+00:00","credits":[],"authorKeys":[],"subjects":[],"metadata":[{"label":"Date","value":"1996","url":null}],"citations":{"page":"\u0022Finishing Funds.\u0022 Video History Project, Experimental Television Center, 2011. https://www.videohistoryproject.org/finishing-funds-4.","publication":null,"risUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/citation/6812.ris"},"links":[],"sections":[{"name":"body","source":"VHP record body","generated":false,"characters":4329},{"name":"summary","source":"existing VHP generated summary","generated":true,"characters":517}],"content":{"section":"body","source":"VHP record body","generated":false,"text":"Finishing Funds is a grants program of the Experimental Television Center, supported by the New York State Council on the Arts. Awards for 1996 were made to: Shawn Atkins \u0022Frame by Frame Fierce\u0022 - An experimental 35mm film project, using animation techniques to attack the problem of rising HIV infection among teens. Lisa Barnstone \u0022The Inventor\u0022 - A 16mm narrative film project exploring concepts of ecological disaster. Zoe Beloff \u0022Beyond\u0022 - An interactive work for CD ROM which grew out of an episodic movie serial designed for the World Wide Web; a playful philosophical inquiry into the paradoxes of technology and imagination. Alan Berliner \u0022Found Sound\u0022 - A mixed media installation investigating contemporary mass media. Critical Mass activates the newspaper page as cubist space; Audiofile and Aviary are interactive sculptures wherein participants can compose sound collages; The Red Thread explores the transformation of electrical energy into light and sound. Diane Bertolo \u0022Probing into Science\u0022 - An interactive CD ROM investigating the language of science and the language of interactivity. It is a computer artifact, a science fetish, a semiotic drift, an algorithmic poem. Bill and Mary Buchen \u0022Elements of Sound\u0022 - A video and audio exploration of sound and its metaphorical relationship to the five elements - earth, water, fire, air and space. Veena Cabreros-Sud \u0022Stretchmark\u0022 - A super-8 film study, raw and intimate, of the interior life of a single mother. Tirtza Even \u0022Color Blind\u0022 - One of a series of works which explore the visual representation of the tension between public and private space, using a metaphor of layers or shells; for CD ROM. Emmanuel Fuentebella \u0022Pepe\u0027s Letters\u0022 - A 35mm feature film about a Filipino journalist; a modern adaptation of the true story of Jose \u0022Pepe\u0022 Rizal who was executed for his role in the Philippine revolution against Spain. Neil Goldberg \u0022Hallelujah Anyway\u0022 - A large scale video installation about labor and longing, pleasure and loss, across class and community lines. Jane Greenberg \u0022Second Generation\u0022 - A video portrait of an adult child of members of the Unification Church; this generation of members is believed by the theology to be perfect and sinless. Bob Harris Untitled - A video about cars, obsession, memory and desire. Shelley Hirsch \u0022For Jerry\u0022 - A series of multi-sited virtual duets with Jerry Hunt, the brilliant electronic music composer and visionary who died in 1993. John Knecht \u0022The POXIOX Study (Tales of the End of the World)\u0022 - A computer animation, part of an on-going series on destiny and the afterlife, which provides a fantasy in image, sound and text based on study of various religions and their views on the hereafter. Richard Kostelanetz \u0022Video Poems, Video Fictions\u0022 - Two tapes, one of poetry, the condensation of language and effect, and one of fiction, suggesting movement from place to place. Jeffrey Lerer \u0022The Codger Twins\u0022 - A computer animation, an intimate story of elderly twins, sharing a domestic environment but wrangling over everything; the level of chaos within the world is wholly dependent on the emotional dynamic between the characters. Jeanne Liotta \u0022Valiantly She Tried to Explain What Lay Behind the Flimsy Trappings\u0022 - Quicktime movie chapters of a \u0022book\u0022 which takes its title from a girl\u0027s mystery novel of the 1940s, re-worked as a tale of the illusionistic nature of working with images, a new detective story about light and dark. Tatiana Loureiro \u0022The Tool Box\u0022 - A personal animation story about a worker and his tools. Hsian-Fu Lu \u0022Make-Up Show\u0022 - A collective action and documentary to raise level of public awareness about abuse and violence, using \u0022make-up\u0022 as a metaphor for the culture\u0027s imperative to deny the reality of violence. Frederick Rendina \u0022Utopia\u0022 - A 16mm comic exploration of the power of negative emotion. Elizabeth Rodgers \u0022The Exodus 1947 Project\u0022 - A 60 minute documentary film on the secret history surrounding the 1947 voyage, and America\u0027s influence on the struggle for Jewish statehood. Sasha Sumner and Robin Perl \u0022Jelly Belly\u0022 - A computer music video addressing the controversy which surrounds abortion. Neil Zusman \u0022Early Works\u0022 - The restoration and reworking of 1970s videos, assembled to create a dialogue among the works. Panel: Peer Bode and Ken Jacobs.","offset":0,"nextOffset":null,"totalCharacters":4329,"complete":true},"rightsUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/terms-service"}