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Wed

9/4/13

Fun World in NYC and 
Sense / Memory in San Jose

Hello All,

 

I am pleased to announce that in addition to the upcoming screening in Orlando, Fun World will also be showing in NYC on Friday evening, September 20th as part of the Bootleg Film Festival.

 

Also, our zine Sense / Memory is now in circulation at the Anno Domini Zine Library in San Jose, CA. So, if you happen to be in that area, be sure to pop in and give it a look/listen.  

 

Kind Regards,

Dan

Alternative Currents Collective

Daniel Watkins Sense / Memory

Sat

8/10/13

As of today we have completed our first artifact of self-publication. Sense / Memory is a zine (I suppose) comprised of essays, collage work, a flow chart, and a step by step guide to pure objective happiness (and much much more). 

 

We will be spreading it around Los Angeles County in the coming weeks via pop-up new stands, free street libraries, chance encounters, etc. 

 

Keep your eyes peeled and your hearts open.

 

If you do not live in the Los Angeles Area and would still like a copy, head over to the CONTACT tab and leave your name and address and we will be sure to get you squared away. 

 

Best,

Alternative Currents Collective

Alternative Currents Collective Presents: Sense / Memory

Wed

8/07/13

My film Fun World will be experiencing a bit of a

homecoming this October. It's kind of a sentimental moment for me as, despite living in Orlando for all of my remembered life (up until last year), all of my work has screened many many miles away. Finally a little hometown recognition. Too bad I now live 3000 miles away. 
 

Details will be forthcoming.

 

Hope all is well,

Dan 

Tue

5/07/13

Deja Vu #4

Hello All,

I have completed another entry in the Deja Vu Series. Head over to Stars and Popcorn (via the link below) and check it out..

 JJ Abrams and Pornography: A Misleading Title  



For those of you unfamiliar, The Deja Vu Series is an ongoing cinema criticism project where I explore a range of topics while grounding them in the implications of their formal aesthetics and place in a larger cultural context. The previous three entries can be found under the Links tab above.

Kind Regards,

Dan 



Fri

4/26/13

Somewhere We Lived trailer 

Above, as I'm sure you gathered is a trailer for my most recent film Somewhere We Lived. I look forward to sharing the whole thing with the world in the near future.    

Sun

4/13/13

New Film

Experimental Film, Artist, Daniel Watkins, Alternative Currents Collective

From a purely formalistic perspective Somewhere We Lived is a film comprised of three paradoxes –analog/digital, young/old, fiction/documentary – that ultimately form the central motifs of the piece. Thus the film has an inherent deconstructive tendency built into its structure, however, these three contradictions are not mutually exclusive. Rather they are quite interchangeable. However, more so than that Somewhere We Lived is a film about multiple realities, or perhaps more specifically, the multiplicity of our realities.

First it is necessary to define the “real.” In this film we have the cinematic real (fiction), the captured real (documentary) and the aesthetic real (physical manipulation) coexisting to form the shell of a narrative. Also we have a variety of different mediums all of which suggest different levels of truth, or reality. However, in the film nothing is clear. Documentary and abstraction transition in and out of fiction. They are interwoven in to the fabric of pretend while maintaining their truth as a solitary image. Thus every image in the film can be defined with several different, contradictory definitions. A scene in a club is an abstraction, a document, and a piece of narrative fiction. Yet, Somewhere We Lived is merely foregrounding what is true in all cinema. A piece of fiction has a corporeal parallel, and so its truth exists on many different plains. Cinema is the ghost in the machine. The living truth inside the apparatus. This film is merely the exorcism.

Thur

4/04/13

Alternative Currents in Florida

This weekend the Thermal Art Exhibition is hosting an installation of mine as well as one belonging to fellow Alternative Currents Collective member Christina Santa Cruz.  The show is running from April 5th - 7th at 500 W. Livingston Street, Orlando, FL. Click the poster for more info. 

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