WATERVILLE — MIFFONEDGE will feature innovative work spanning decades of moving image history, The exhibit explores the intersection of film and art and pushes the boundaries of our commonly accepted notions of cinema. MIFFONEDGE Vol. 2 (at MIFF 2014) featured a drop-in exhibition, a community cameraless film project, and a special Found Films event, hosted at Common Street Arts.

The exhibition will be open 2-9 p.m. Saturday, July 12, through July 19 at Common Street Arts, 16 Common St. Admission is free.

Featured artists: Peggy Ahwesh, John A. Coffer, Devon Damonte, Dustin Grella, Robin Mandel, Scott Minzy and Brooke White.

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Peggy Ahwesh

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“The Pittsburgh Trilogy,” 1983 – color sound, Super 8 film – 40 Minutes

A three-part work that features the lives of her friends during that summer. Ahwesh’s work uses a variety of styles — from narrative to documentary and improvised to scripted. From Super-8 to 16mm and Pixelvision to found footage — and has both transgressed and expanded the idiom of experimental film and video.

John A. Coffer

Tintype Movies, 2005 — “Walking Boots” (0:51); “Sawing” (0:16); “Sharpening a Razor” (0:22); “Scrubbing on a Washboard” (0:17)

Coffer is among those credited with the current revival of the use of antiquarian photographic techniques, particularly the wet collodion (or wet-plate) process.

Devon Damonte

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“Devonimations”

A compilation reel of recent work, including selections from Aurorobrous, a snakeskin light odyssey, and Stalking the Wild Washi, made from the sticky skins of exotic craft supplies.

Dustin Grella

“Animation Hotline Hotspots,” 2014

A series of 2-D animations that Grella creates with pastels on a slate chalkboard using crowd-sourced voicemail messages for content. The Animation Hotline Hotspots at MIFFONEDGE are television-telephone combinations that allow the viewer to watch previous Animation Hotline videos and then, if they feel so inspired, pick up the attached phone and leave their own message. Some messages are then chosen to be animated and then put back on the televisions (as well as the internet at animationhotline.com) to be viewed.

Robin Mandel

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Moving (Relative Strangers #5), 2011 — mixed media installation

This kinetic sculpture by MIFFONEDGE alumnus Robin Mandel relies on persistence of vision to create a believable fiction. Rather than a sequence of still images that resolve into a continuous narrative, here the revolution of a silhouette, combined with the light that illuminates it, resolves into a nearly solid volume. The object is itself a moving image, with some of the same cinematic flicker of an old film. This work is part of a series inspired in part by the work of George Méliès, in particular the film Le Locataire Diabolique, 1909, in which a new tenant produces the entire contents of his apartment (furniture, artwork, a piano, even his wife and children) from a single suitcase. The flattening and unfolding of his possessions, and the magical ease with which he is able to reassemble his life, was an intriguing point of departure for sculpture.

Scott Minzy

Room with a View, 2014, relief prints and video animation

In an homage to Rod Serling, 80’s B-horror and the film Lost Horizon, Scott Minzy has created an installation that touches on the universal themes of fear, regret and longing. Using black and white relief prints coupled with expressionistic animation, Minzy attempts to depict both the inner turmoil and the outer physicality of the human condition at once. Sometimes this might appear as an organic addition or painfully permanent subtraction.

Brooke White

“Postcards from India,” 7 minutes, 33 seconds, video loop

Explores the changing landscapes of India by combining still photography and hand-drawn digital animations that slowly reveal changes occurring within the landscape due to development and globalization.

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