Kent Tate: RUPTURE Preview - Single Channel movie. Moving Images & Music: Kent Tate 10:00
By and large humans tend to create narratives about themselves, then often make great effort to conform reality to that narrative. This was not a threat to planetary survival 10,000 years ago when we were scattered in small bands worshipping local deities and relying on nearby gathered foodstuffs with only stone tools. It is quite an other thing when we are packed into mega-cities with nuclear weapons, and ambiguous connectivities, along with relationships imbued in instruments that far exceed an individual's capacity to fully comprehend or to realibly navigate our various systems.
Sequence in order of appearance: Secret Bunker - Green pump in a brown field - Exiled Angels - Atomizing Jet Stream - Lonely Deer walking near the Towers - Washington and Moscow have already called me three times - Metamorphosis - Soft Iron Plunger & Hollow Coil - Only Hollow Coil
Filmed on location by Kent Tate: Sentinel Industrial Park, Crowsnest Pass, Alberta - Oil Rig, midway between Dollard and Eastend, Saskatchewan - Mount Tecumseh which means "panther passing across" in Shawnee, Crowsnest Pass, Alberta - Rock Formation in Tk’emlups te Secwepemc Territory east of Kamloops, British Columbia - Sea Port on Puget Sound in Bellingham, Washington - Gas Station in Swift Current, Saskatchewan merges with a rocky mountain ridge east of Sparwood, British Columbia - Eroded hillside in the Fraser River Canyon, south of Ashcroft, British Columbia - Salt Plant on the edge of Chaplin Lake, Saskatchewan as seen from the nearby Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve.
Additional public domain: Altered animation sourced from “74 Principles Of Electro Magnetism” (1926). Extremely short excerpt from “Cosmos: War of the Planets” (1977)
Official selection: 5th edition of the Internacional KannibalFest, Berlin, Germany
Official selection: Panorama Internacional VOL #1, O Sítio, Florianópolis, Brazil
Official selection: Panorama Int'l VOL #1- Cine Tornado Festival, Curitiba, Brazli
Official selection: Panorama Internacional VOL #1, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Official Selection: International Festival of Signs (FISDN) - Paris, France
Official Selection: The Kinochrome Sessions No.1, CineCycle - Toronto, Canada
Official selection: Winter of the Climate-Haunted Globe, Labocine, online screening
Distributed by the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC) Toronto, Canada
By and large humans tend to create narratives about themselves, then often make great effort to conform reality to that narrative. This was not a threat to planetary survival 10,000 years ago when we were scattered in small bands worshipping local deities and relying on nearby gathered foodstuffs with only stone tools. It is quite an other thing when we are packed into mega-cities with nuclear weapons, and ambiguous connectivities, along with relationships imbued in instruments that far exceed an individual's capacity to fully comprehend or to realibly navigate our various systems.
Sequence in order of appearance: Secret Bunker - Green pump in a brown field - Exiled Angels - Atomizing Jet Stream - Lonely Deer walking near the Towers - Washington and Moscow have already called me three times - Metamorphosis - Soft Iron Plunger & Hollow Coil - Only Hollow Coil
Filmed on location by Kent Tate: Sentinel Industrial Park, Crowsnest Pass, Alberta - Oil Rig, midway between Dollard and Eastend, Saskatchewan - Mount Tecumseh which means "panther passing across" in Shawnee, Crowsnest Pass, Alberta - Rock Formation in Tk’emlups te Secwepemc Territory east of Kamloops, British Columbia - Sea Port on Puget Sound in Bellingham, Washington - Gas Station in Swift Current, Saskatchewan merges with a rocky mountain ridge east of Sparwood, British Columbia - Eroded hillside in the Fraser River Canyon, south of Ashcroft, British Columbia - Salt Plant on the edge of Chaplin Lake, Saskatchewan as seen from the nearby Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve.
Additional public domain: Altered animation sourced from “74 Principles Of Electro Magnetism” (1926). Extremely short excerpt from “Cosmos: War of the Planets” (1977)
Official selection: 5th edition of the Internacional KannibalFest, Berlin, Germany
Official selection: Panorama Internacional VOL #1, O Sítio, Florianópolis, Brazil
Official selection: Panorama Int'l VOL #1- Cine Tornado Festival, Curitiba, Brazli
Official selection: Panorama Internacional VOL #1, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Official Selection: International Festival of Signs (FISDN) - Paris, France
Official Selection: The Kinochrome Sessions No.1, CineCycle - Toronto, Canada
Official selection: Winter of the Climate-Haunted Globe, Labocine, online screening
Distributed by the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC) Toronto, Canada