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Ugh! Mom! Get out of here! Stop walking through my room! Being at the mall. Living at the mall. Art video games. Art Bart. Art gallery. Teen room. Ugh! I hate you and no one understands.

Highlighting prime exemplars of the nascent independent/art video game world, these works challenge notions of playability, object and rules.

Philippe Blanchard - Springfield Eternal (2009, Flash animation loop)

Springfield Eternal is a Saturday morning memento mori. An appropriated Bart Simpson is subjected to a Sisyphean eternal punishment as he ages, withers and dies over and over again, steadfastly staying on his skateboard or staying true to character. Questioning how time is represented in cartoons, this short looping animation uses morphing techniques to create subtle animation effects in an attempt to blur the time of the narrative and the time of the viewer. 

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Deep Leap Microcinema is peripatetic screening and exhibition series dedicated to thematically-curated experimental film, video art and new media work. Past programs include: Sacred Geometries, The Internet Is a Terrible Place to Live, Zaum/Beyonsense and In the Light Cone. www.deepleap.net

Thank you Jesse Malmed!