Thousands of razor cut images flash frantically to a high speed, neurotically contrived poem.

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HUMAN-X-IS-TENSE

Hundreds of precisely cut photographs frenetically animate across the screen, intersecting, dissecting, multiplying and dividing against a cacophony of words.

Follow this one-minute interplay of sound and image as it attempts to discover the meaning of human-x-is-tense.

FILM CREDITS
Writer/Director - Chris Clements
Producers - Julie Goldman, Michelle Giancola

FILM FESTIVAL SCREENING HISTORY (as a short film) 
MicroCineFest
Brussels Independent Film Festival
The Knitting Factory (New York)

FILM FESTIVAL SCREENING HISTORY (as part of a feature film) 
Austin Film Festival (Finalist, Feature Film Competition)
Cinema Jove (Finalist, Feature Film Competition)
Wine Country Film Festival (Finalist, Feature Film Competition)
Woods Hole Film Festival
Tacoma Tortured Artist Film Festival (Award Winner)

 

 

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Production Personnel

Writer/Director
Chris Clements
Chris Clements is a writer/director whose films have been screened and won awards throughout the world.

After a wide-ranging domestic and international festival run, Chris’ debut feature film was licensed for international television broadcast and home video distribution throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and South America. FREE FLOATERS details the exploits of a dysfunctional young couple, a Chevy van full of VCRs and a crazed mission to reorder the stock of video stores across the continental United States.

Chris has written and directed a wide variety of award winning short films, including: ARENA, DIGITAL GREMLIN FOR WINDOWS, PINK SLIPS, HUMAN-X-IS-TENSE and HYPNOSTASIS. His documentaries include X-PHILES and WHAT’S UP. Chris’ other writings include novels, stage and screenplays. He is currently completing a new novel, THE ARTIFACTS OF MANIC D.

Producer
Julie Goldman 
Julie Goldman has over 15 years of experience as a producer specializing in raising financing for documentary films. Goldman is a founding partner of Cactus Three, a New York based company that executive produces high-end documentary films and non-fiction programming. Cactus Three’s feature documentaries have screened at the most prestigious film festivals around the world, including Cannes, Sundance, Toronto, Berlin, Tribeca and London.

Most recently, Goldman executive produced Doubletime (Discovery Films); SXSW Audience Award winner Cat Dancers (HBO Documentary Films); Alexis Arquette: She’s My Brother (A&E IndieFilms/Channel 4), which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival; and 2007 Sundance Audience Award winner In the Shadow of the Moon, which was released in September 2007 by THINKFilm.

Producer
Michelle Giancola
Michelle Giancola has worked in the film and television industry since 1986. She started her career in the programming division of WNYE, where she developed programs for both radio and television, including “Crackdown on Crack”, one of television’s first investigative reports on the crack epidemic. Since 1988, Michelle has worked as a producer of documentaries, public service announcements, short films, music videos and commercials for such clients as Budweiser, McDonalds, Giga Pets, Advil and Chemical Bank. She produced the independent feature film, FREE FLOATERS and the documentaries WHAT’S UP and X-PHILES and REFLECTIONS OF IDENTITY, a documentary about Arab American women and their assimilation into American culture, which she also directed. Michelle produced Steven Bozga’s debut feature film LOVE LIKE BLOOD and they are continuing their collaboration on a new feature currently in development.

 

 

 

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Director’s statement

“I was curious to see how much existential angst could be crammed into the average time spent, say, waiting for a traffic light to change.”