2014 · ★ 0.0 (0)
A silent meditation on the Islamic prayer ritual through motion (water is the core, but light is the cause) in FRIDAY MOSQUE. Shot on high-contrast black and white 16mm film, Navai hand processed the negative and painstakingly contact- printed the strips of celluloid. The resulting image quivers and pulses. Enlarged film grain nearly obliterates the already abstracted image. There exists both a tension and serenity in the flickering frame. Every element is preparing for and anticipating the faithful soul that is summoned to the everyday practice. The silent tune of the calling, Azan, has overtaken.
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2006 · ★ 0.0 (0)
Over the course of three years, Lynne Sachs collaborated with her daughter Noa (from 5 to 8 years old), criss-crossing the wooded landscapes of Brooklyn with camera and costumes in hand. Noa’s grand finale is her own rendition of the bluegrass classic “Crawdad Song”.
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2010 · ★ 0.0 (0)
Lynne Sachs pays homage to Walter Benjamin’s essay "The Task of the Translator" through three studies of the human body. First, she listens to the musings of a wartime doctor grappling with the task of a kind-of cosmetic surgery for corpses. Second, she witnesses a group of Classics scholars confronted with the haunting yet whimsical task of translating a newspaper article on Iraqi burial rituals into Latin. Finally, she turns to a radio news report on human remains.
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2012 · ★ 0.0 (0)
My daughter's name is Maya. I've been told that the word maya means illusion in Hindu philosophy. As I watch her growing up, spinning like a top around me, I realize that her childhood is not something I can grasp but rather (like the wind) something I feel tenderly brushing across my cheek. Eleven years later, I pull out my 16mm Bolex camera once again and she allows me to film her, different but somehow the same. - Lynne Sachs
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1979 · ★ 6.0 (1)
The first two in a series of in-camera edited films by Marjorie Keller. ANCIENT PARTS portrays the symbolic differentiation and mock conquest of a boy and his mother. FOREIGN PARTS portrays the poetics of family life in an unfamiliar context. Two joined together as one.
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1986 · ★ 0.0 (0)
“The Duality of Nature is an experimental video that deals with the 'duality of nature', in other words natural nature and technical nature. Nature is always a construction, whether in dynamic processes, dis-analog systems or physical, technical signals. 'Nature' formulates the organizational forms of representational strategies - symbolic structures, both in reality and in fiction. Where are the borders, the interfaces, the de-bordering and the analogies for ‘natural’ nature and ‘technical’ nature? These considerations provided the basis for the video.” – VALIE EXPORT
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2009 · ★ 0.0 (0)
"The rebellious voice, the split voice. The voice is suture, the voice is seam, the voice is cut, the voice is tear, the voice is my identity, it is not body or spirit, it is not language or image, it is sign, it is a sign of the images, it is a sign of sensuality. It is a sign of symbols, it is boundary. It speaks the ‘split body,’ it is hidden in the clothing of the body, it is always somewhere else. The breath of life is its source." – VALIE EXPORT "That the vocal organs visually rhyme with female genitalia, that when they are in use, they create a fascinating flow of movement and change, makes this work a compelling new iteration by an artist who has given voice to her female body through a myriad of frames." – Maureen Turim
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1968 · ★ 5.5 (2)
“Third Eye Butterfly” is a double 16mm projection piece in which the two screens – at times divided within into additional “mini-screens” causing textured kaleidoscopic effects – blur to create a third wider frame, encouraging the viewers to extend their vision beyond ordinary sight - Microscope Gallery
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2008 · ★ 0.0 (0)
An intoxicating flower; a metaphorical insect; a longing reach across the centuries. The Parable of the Tulip Painter and the Fly is a philosophical search drenched in luminous colours and sparkling light. The film was shot on colour reversal, entirely hand-processed and re-printed on the optical printer. "Having grown the exquisite tulip, I feel deeply under its spell--an affliction shared by an artist from another time and place, yet the dilemma we faced was shared: to fall for such a luxurious and temporary beauty raised a fear (a reminder--a fly) of the transience of life" - CP
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2010 · ★ 0.0 (0)
Rural images taken from a few pictures mixed with an audio track of identical sounds.
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2003 · ★ 7.0 (1)
Promotional films and educational films. Ambiguity of a company that takes the child to one side as the target of commercial propaganda, and the other as the object of a preventive and security debate.
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1991 · ★ 0.0 (0)
In principle of repetition of a fragment, CHARLOTTE is close to [Fontaine's earlier film] La fissure.
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1990 · ★ 0.0 (0)
Official visits and their rituals;manipulated black and white found footage of a professional indian reel news with my father's amateur film of the more or less similar type of official events in the french oversea region where I grew up.
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1983 · ★ 0.0 (0)
One of the first experiment with the camera and with the editing splicer. A fast edited film using materials from several 3min films shot in the streets of Boston.
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2009 · ★ 0.0 (0)
A collage of various elements of 35 mm leaders manually displaced and reorganized has been slowly scanned and animated in a short sequence in which the short strip runs through the screen before being transformed by video editing.
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2009 · ★ 0.0 (0)
Pieces of emulsion from 35mm leader rearranged on its surface then scanned and edited on video to create abstract patterns.
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1991 · ★ 0.0 (0)
Color work after separation and recomposition of the different colored layers of a documentary (found) in the Paris performance of a Japanese group of butoh dancers.
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1986 · ★ 0.0 (0)
Recycled footage from commercial films, which the film-maker has manipulated by removing the layer of emulsion and reconfiguring it on the transparent substrate of the film base.
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2015 · ★ 0.0 (0)
Anecdotally, Andy Warhol once asked the Velvet Underground that the record bearing his name be inscribed with a purposeful skip during the song “I’ll be Your Mirror.” Listeners, faced with the endless repetition of that particular lyric, would be forced to rouse themselves and manually drive the needle onward. The group declined this request.
I’m in Pittsburgh and It’s Raining honors the concept: both the act and the idea of being caught in a reflexive moment. This video is an experimental portrait of a lighting stand-in/body double whose work and corporal self appears in films even if her name does not. Through a purposeful masking of the (sometimes subtle) differentiations between performance and acting, famous Hollywood actress and her double, character, actual person, audience expectation, and cinema magic this video offers a look behind the silver screen.
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