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    • (ab) NORMAL

    (ab) NORMAL

    • 1995
    • 00h 20m 00s
    • Wrik Mead
    • Rent $200
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    Synopsis

    "In ‘(ab)NORMAL’ the relationship spectrum, from paranoid avoidance to smothering and overwhelming attention, is traced through four pixilated sketches." - Toronto International Film Festival

    Categories

    • LGBTQ2S+,
    • Animation,
    • Body,
    • Experimental,
    • Sexuality

    Shooting Format

    • 16 mm

    Languages

    • English

    Additional Details

    • Colour,
    • Sound

    Available Subtitle

    • None

    Region

    • Central Canada

    Screening Formats

    • 3/4 tape (umatic),
    • 16 mm

    Credits

    • Director: Wrik Mead

    Provided By

    • CFMDC Logo

    More By Wrik Mead

    Manholes (Brian)

    • 2011
    • Wrik Mead

    The “Manholes” series takes a pan of a single male figure and fragments it into a grid of peepholes. The microscopic mapping of the body is intimate yet clinical. The cascading body parts create a kaleidoscope of changing skin tones. It is difficult to find the point of origin on the subject’s body, though occasionally signifiers make it possible; an eye, a nipple or the toes suddenly orient the viewer.

    Manholes (Brian)

    Milkman & Milk Bath

    • 2010
    • Wrik Mead

    In “Milkman,” a seated male figure sits staring endlessly ahead, his gaze locked on the viewer. Milk is streaming from his nipple and into a glass that he holds in his left hand. The continuous flow of milk never seems to fill the glass. The sound of the flowing milk creates a human fountain out of this portrait.

    Milkman & Milk Bath

    Ache

    • 2008
    • Wrik Mead

    Two male blow-up dolls become puppets in this short. Not only is one of the men out of air, but both of them are tragically out of synch with one another.

    Ache

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