2000 Film Festival: The Visionary Encounters Film Festival

Short videos and expressive commentary by a master of the quick cut. Antony Flackett is a video artist who is a staff member of the Massachusetts College of Art.

The walking dreamer finds her “sluggish desperado.” Sarah Smiley is a media artist who lives in Boston.

A documentary shot in Belfast, Northern Ireland, immediately after the Good Friday Peace Agreement, which focuses on the artistic and political differences between Protestant and Catholic wall murals. Carl Seward is a Swamscott resident and a recent graduate of the London International Film School.

A poetic and meditative piece about a brief chance meeting between the artist’s family and a family friend. Alvin Tsang is a video artist who was born in the New Territory of Hong Kong and now lives in San Diego.

Suggestive visual and thematic correlations between the presentation of the 1970’s comedy show heroine and a 1920’s silent film heroine. Sheri Wills is a video artist and an Assistant Professor of Arts at the University of Rhode Island, and a winner of many awards in both this country and abroad.

Four sardonically-toned dreams of pregnancy and early motherhood. Jacqueline Goss is an electronic media artist who teaches in the Media and Performing Arts Department at the Massachusetts College of Art.

An energetic computer generated abstract animation backed by a lively sound track. Walter Wright is a video artist, residing in Lowell, who creates performances of computer-processed, video-sound-designer Maria Moran.

A personal documentary about a group of friends gathered to watch an eclipse. George Fifield is a video artist, writer, and a curator of the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park.

A strange encounter with a man with a magnitudinous mandible.

A personal documentary of the artist’s driving experience on both coasts as part of her Our World Underwater scholarship tour. Kirsten Bassion grew up in Marblehead and now works as a video producer/director in Virginia.