How does it feel to live next to 170 year old creatures? This short impressionistic film documents an old forest area called Mortin männikkö in Northern Finland. As an array of glimpses and moments the film tries to summarize a decade of life next to this vivid & forested tableau vivant.
A performative poetry film about what nobody will want to have seen. Childish paper dolls and tableaus, collage aestheticsm juxtaposed with symbols of war, politics, and religion. Ideologies and opinions tried on as one would try on clothes. A poem hinting at the Leningrad siege. The colors of the suffragettes, Aileen Wuornos’ glorification, and glorious landscapes combined with Nazi uniforms. Nothing is innocent.
A deconstructed how-to haiku for staying afloat through the endurance sport of life. Featuring "Polycalia Myrtifolia" from album "Seeds" by Pablo Schvarzman.
Reversal combines images and sounds from movies released or broadcast in 1973, the year the Supreme Court decided Roe v Wade. In the strange new reality ushered in by the Dobbs decision, the slogan "We won't go back" is recalled with bitter irony. This collage piece evokes the specter of regression and repression that has followed the Court's decision.
Part of an on-going hand-process project that echos 17th century Chinese novels and the current political plights. Drifting from being controlled and out-of-control, from film negative to positive, from compositional clash and evasion, the film applies labor-intensive processes, questioning suppression choreographically
Colombia is the country with the greatest diversity of birds. I recently finished the construction of my house in the countryside. At first, I saw a lot of birds, but now that some new neighbors dried up the waterfall to steal the water and others intend to build on top of it, the amount of fauna has decreased drastically. This animation is a work in progress.
A meditation on watery air, "so wonderful so sad so everything" is a selection from CinemaDivina--short films made for contemplation. The title, so wonderful so sad so everything is inspired by something writer and illustrator Maira Kalman said in the January 3, 2019 episode of Krista Tippett's podcast On Being.
In 1846 Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote the poem 'Hamatreya,' about man's claim to earth, and Earth's retort to such a claim. One-hundred and fifty years ago, Emerson explored man's sense of entitlement towards nature, while proposing that he is but a visitor. It is earth that rightly claims permanency over man. The Video includes quotes from 'Earth Song' (lyrics of Earth's response to man) a subsection of Hamatreya
The late Fred Dewey’s essay "What Is Power?" rendered on film becomes something like a Greek chorus of very different voices, rising to affirm what we find hardest to believe at this moment: that power does not in fact reside among the powerful but is always there for we, the people, to reclaim. This film adds a new dimension to a text which asks many questions: What is the real nature of power? Where does it actually reside? How do we respond to, and understand, powerlessness? Why is protest utterly inadequate? What happens when people read philosophy out loud to each other? Inspired by Godard, people read the essay "What Is Power?" out loud to the film viewer as if across the table at one of Fred Dewey's table readings of Hannah Arendt's works.
In the whiteness is a poetic exploration of identity through the eyes of a Harari-Ethiopian woman, displaced via war, now living in Canada. She uses poetry and movement as a meditative method of reconnecting with her roots and in doing so, establishes a magical bond with her ancestors.
1972 was a turning point in Ilie Nastase's career: he won his first US Open, while also reaching both Wimbledon and Davis Cup finals. Moving back and forth in time and featuring amazing archive footage and exclusive interviews with top athletes, the documentary explores Nastase's highs and lows, the controversies that surrounded him and the enduring impact he has had on the world of tennis. Lovable, charming and generous, yet temperamental, arrogant and obscene, Mr. Nice'n'Nasty disrupted the old-fashioned etiquette of the sport in the 70s thus becoming its first rebel rock star.
Pierce has recently created hundreds of short reflective loops to stimulate subtle alterations in states of mind. He shoots and processes them entirely on his phone in order to bring the active video "meaning-making" process into his daily lived experience. His camera (and NLE) is always in his pocket. Lodestar takes advantage of synergies and leaps among some of these loops and then extends them toward proto-narrative --the moment when an objective narrative is first detected. Sound is integral to the potential for an in-depth experience during this video.
Rethinking the Anthropocene was developed over a period of six years and originally was described as Cinema for the Anthropocene. Each section (1. You Decide, 2. While We Sleep, 3. The Unraveling of Time and 4. This Old World) was created with different materials, locations, editorial strategies and sound design experiments and all have been screened individually both in the USA and internationally. Rethinking the Anthropocene (2023) is the final rendition which was completed in April 2023. Shot in the USA, French Polynesia, Canada, Bangladesh, and Malaysia.
Peaceable Kingdom is a dreamscape of various domestic and wild animals inhabiting human architectural spaces. The title is taken from a series of paintings by the Quaker minister and painter, Edward Hicks. He painted 62 versions of The Peaceable Kingdom that depicted a coexistence between predators and prey (“an eschatological state inferred from texts such as the Book of Isaiah, the Book of Hosea, and the Sermon on the Mount”).
Learning To Swim is a personal film where I reflect on my connection to water, both personally and within the larger cultural context of Black America. In the midst of this reflection, I attempt to learn how to swim, to ease the tension I feel toward this thing I'm inextricably linked to.
A lyrical and contemplative gallery tour is unexpectedly interrupted by personal memories. Shared metaphors are conjured up by remembered, real and imagined smells. Wandering among this gallery’s replicated portraits the lingering smells of surrounding exhibits and faint smells of air, questions are raised about truth, perception and the conditions that interfere with our perception of place.
A ritual evocation set on Dartmoor, through stone and water, the senses unfolding, drawing inward, and creating. The inner life embodied and manifesting as divine play, the Lila of Hindu philosophy, the Lila who was my teacher, now reaching down through the ancestral line in father and daughter.
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