Startle Pattern
Experimental Short

Director: Eric Patrick 

RT: 13:00mins

Sunday September 30 10:00AM

Synopsis:  

Startle Pattern is a farewell card to the film medium. In this late age of emulsion, this essay is a call of the cinematic gaze to a state of crisis. The film functions as a deconstruction of spectatorship and authorship in the moving image… a puppet’s form tattered and decayed, hinting at the Protagonist's delicate relationship with reality, voyeurism, the director and the apparatus. 

Principle Cast:

Jennifer Baker
Supporting Actor 

Filmmaker Bio:

Eric Patrick has been awarded grants from the Guggenheim foundation, the Texas Filmmakers’ Production Fund, The Rooftop Film Fund among others. His films have screened extensively throughout Europe, Australia, Asia and the Americas, and have won numerous awards both domestically and internationally, including awards at The Black Maria Film Festival, The Humboldt International Film Festival, Semana de Cine Experimental de Madrid, South by Southwest Film Festival, The Ann Arbor Film Festival, U.S.A. Film Festival, Big Muddy Film Festival, and Festival de Cinema Independent de Barcelona. He is currently working on a film titled Retrocognition, and is on leave from his position as an Assistant Professor in the Radio/TV/Film program at Northwestern University.