Thad Povey, born 1959 in California, works in film, both found, exposed, and made from scratch, as a means to explore the peculiarities of the human animal. The things which make our species both ridiculous and terrifying may lie between the mumbled lines and off-camera moments, or possibly it’s as his 11 year-old niece once rhetorically asked, “It's just a bunch of pictures, right?” He is recipient of a Phelan Award for California-born filmmakers. – Light Cone

Thine Inward-Looking Eyes

Thad Povey

USA 1993, 16mm, col, 2 min

V“To paraphrase something Lao Tzu didn't say: This film's an empty cup – You fill it up. This film was originally a part of I Smell The Blood Of An Englishman, a suite of four films dealing with two words: human and being.” – www.thadpovey.com


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To Die For, Markus Muntean & Adi Rosenblum, Austria 2002, col, 13 min
Station, Martin Brand, Germany 2005, video, col, 15 min
Apologies, Anne Robertson, USA 1990, Super-8, col, 17 min
Iliuzijos – Illusions, Diana Matuzeviciené & Kornelijus Matuzevicius, Lithuania 1993, 35mm, b/w, 21 min

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