This is My Show
Classic Felker, a sense of humor as big as "the environment" + a keen tracker of modern american human behavior + emotion
Lori Felker
Lori Felker is a Chicago-based filmmaker/artist, teacher, programmer, and performer. Her films and videos attempt to study the ineloquent, oppositional, delusional, frustrating, and chaotic qualities of human interaction. She loves every facet of filmmaking and has worked as a cinematographer, editor, and actor for various artists and directors. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Film Department at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
Lori works in a variety of mediums and has shown her work internationally at festivals and spaces including the Rotterdam International Film Festival; NYFF: Views from the Avant-Garde; VideoEx, Zurich; Slamdance, Park City, UT; Ann Arbor Film Festival; Festival du Nouveau Cinema, Montreal; Curtas Vila do Conde Film Festival, Portugal; Glass Curtain Gallery, Chicago; LA Filmforum; BAMcinemaFest, Brooklyn; and Space Gallery, Pittsburgh. She is an Illinois Arts Council Artists Grant recipient, a Wexner Center Artist in Residence and a Fulbright Fellow.
[bio courtesy of the filmmaker]
Filmography
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Discontinuity
Tabitha and Stephen have been in each other's lives for a long time but because of their jobs they must periodically live apart. When Tabitha returns "home" after their longest separation, what they've been missing becomes opaquely clear and who they're becoming makes it hard for them to see each...Watch Movie
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Broken News
BROKEN NEWS is an intimate attempt at reporting, mediating and being mediated. This comes from an experiment/performance in which I had a news desk set up at the foot of my bed for 2 weeks. I would read only headlines all day and then deliver the "news" from memory at night. Then, I would wake...Watch Movie
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It Doesn't Matter
Filmmaker Lori Felker creates a science-for-kids television program to explore the meaning of matter, or, more specifically, what doesn't matter. Her two wacky physicists, wearing lab coats labeled "MATTER" and "DOESN'T MATTER" respectively, discuss the four phases of matter...Watch Movie
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The Mennonite Federation
A mysterious, amusing, semi-nostalgic ramble through a small town in Iowa gives way to what may be the U.S.S. Enterprise indulging in a bit of time travel. Dialogue contrasts the pleasures of the simple life with its hardships and the mere act of looking at a patch of mums is...Watch Movie
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The Mirrored Curtain
"Let's See It" on this brand new episode of TAKE ME THERE. Experience the duality of a singular location anywhere and all over the world where there's always something to see and almost everything to imagine. This is a travel show, marking an adventure to a place, a non-space,...Watch Movie
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Imperceptihole
A correspondence film: rolls of high-contrast black-and-white film were sent back-and-forth in the mail over the course of a year until the film began to reveal itself as a science non-fiction fairy tale, a speculative quest (circling and searching, falling and landing, entering and exiting) to...Watch Movie
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This is My Show
WORKING WITH NATURE can be grueling and painful, but your host Adrienne Edmunds is ready and willing to walk you through what it takes to perfect and control your surroundings. Adrienne brings you the very best in high quality, high definition gardening television as she takes all of the...Watch Movie
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Zwischen
ZWISCHEN ("Between") exists on the thin line between opposing forces. There is no grey between black and white, as ZWISCHEN jumps from earth to space, mixes matter with air, and materializes inspiration at the insistence of the hand. Dirt moves over light to a hand-drawn soundtrack of noise and...Watch Movie
Genres
- Avant-garde
- Avant-garde / Culture Jamming
- Avant-garde / Nonobjective
- Comedy / Anarchic Comedy
- Comedy / Mockumentary
- Comedy / Parody
- Documentary / Art / Visual Arts / Motion Pictures / Video Art
- Drama / Dramedy
- Drama / Romantic Drama
- Independent / Narrative
- International / African
- International / Americas / North American / American
- Music / Music Video
- Science Fiction / Time Travel
- Short / Narrative
- Short / Non-Narrative
Recent Reviews
It Doesn't Matter
high quality comedy. it's like the museum of jurassic technology amplified their sense of humor and made an extended SNL skit
Discontinuity
In a very short space of time, the director is able to capture so very realistically the subtle lapses in communications that can exist between a couple, in this case...
This is My Show
Funny and true.
Scattered in the Wind
Kind of looked like a high school video art project... Wait, was it?