Authored Spaces

        Rubric presents its inaugural program of experimental film and video, Authored Spaces.  The program consists of seven videos that examine the diverse nature of human authorship and its manifestation in physical, social and filmic spaces.  With five films hailing from the U.S. and two from Europe, the program offers the viewer a contemporary occidental self-portrait -- one that considers the author, the spaces we inhabit, and the spaces we create.
      Many of the films in the program provide a striking sense of place.  Collectively, the films show a dialectic between natural and urban spaces in a way that directs us to consider their commonality, divergence, and effect on human authorship.  The same dialectic seems to spotlight social constructs involving these two distinct spaces, and their effect on both the socialized and the outcast.