Woods Hole Film Festival 2009

Curated by Mica Scalin of Showtime Network and Lee Wells of the International Fine Arts Consortium, both widely exhibited, award winning video artists, 1800FRAMES/TAKE 3 is a series of 55 one-minute ( each approximately 1800 frames) videos by thirty artists from around the world. These artworks range from the subtle to the hilarious, from the pensive to the stunning.

Brian Caiazza & G.H. Hovagimyan's INVENTED GOD, for example is a multilayered rapid-fire rhythmic performance which covers a humorous ontological discourse on the self and God; MIchael Szpakowski's PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST WITH SCANNER is a short look at an animated black and white encounter with a scanner and exhibits a haunting beauty; WE DRINK by Robert O'connor is a luxurious slow motion performance of the artist drinking ink from a milk carton: both strange and and graphically moving.

In CELL PHONE, Memo Salazar uses animated graphics to present a treatise on our fascination with technology. Organized into four sections PUBLIC, PRIVATE, LOOKING IN and LOOKING OUT, Scalin and Lee have put together a program that is both arresting in the beauty of its brevity, and filled with images and sequences that will engage, inspire and occasionally surprise.