Cornell Experimental Eye is a 2006-2007 series featuring
in-person presentations by internationally acclaimed experimental film and
video artists. The first guest is Jennifer Reeves, who will present The
Time We Killed,
a beautiful, impressionistic cine-poem and a companion piece to her short
Chronic. Reeves's debut feature combines elements of experimental film,
narrative cinema, and documentary to create a stellar example of personal
filmmaking. Poet Lisa Jarnot plays Robyn, a borderline agoraphobe who can't
prevent the outside world from penetrating her Brooklyn apartment-whether
it's a murder-suicide next door, memories of her true love, or September
11th. Bill Brown, a filmmaker from Lubbock, Texas, who has made several
short experimental documentaries about the dusty corners of the North American
landscape, will be here next to present The Other Side,
which documents the physical landscape of the borderlands, and the human
landscape of cross-border migration. We will also show one of Brown's earlier
short experimental documentaries. The series is made possible with the support
of the Cornell Council for the Arts.
Image from The Time We Killed
