Name: Tony Gault
Location: Englewood, Colorado USA

Bio: Tony Gault is one of five candidates selected for President Bush’s manned Mars expedition and is currently working on a film about language and how it influences our perception of reality.

Title: "Not Too Much Remember" (2003, 11:00, 16mm)
Description: Maybe it's the CIA. and the LSD they gave "Richard," or America and its vast imagery screwed into our brains and restructuring our identity. Whatever “it” is, get ready for a found footage film that deconstructs the mighty power of narratives and their pervasive effect on the formation of consciousness.

David Finkelstein, reviewing for Film Threat - “Normally I am not at all a fan of the "found footage" genre. But the way that Gault has assembled this collage is, in a word, masterful. Each editing cut has a way of connecting one shot to the next, through a word, a visual pattern, or a sound, yet cuts away before the banality of the original film source becomes apparent, building up a powerful crescendo of paranoia, until it seems like our entire culture is a conspiracy to hypnotize and enslave the common people. (Imagine believing such a thing, even for an instant!) Gault uses found footage in an entirely justified way: to take a hard look at the film artifacts of our culture and reassemble them until they reveal hidden truths about us. By breaking apart these educational films and putting together the pieces so that they reflect off of each other in an enlightening way, he creates a cinematic poem of paranoia as a higher state of consciousness.”

Awards:
One of five Best of Festival selections, Brooklyn Underground Film Festival, Oct 2003 San Francisco Art Institute Film Festival. Juror’s Citation, February 2004 Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour Selection, Screening at over 30 universities, museums and theatres. Ann Arbor Film Festival, Honorable Mention, April 2004 Humboldt Int’l Film Festival, Honorable Mention,
April 2004 Calgary Film Festival, Best 16mm Film, Canada, April 2004