Bonding between parents and baby helps create the new family; this process is clearly explained in a warm and informative way. As the family prepares for the birth of a child, the relationships of parents and siblings, as well as the birth itself, appear through film.
Filter Films
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“‘Handtinting’ is the apt title of a film made from outtakes from a Job Corps documentary which features hand-tinted sections. The film is full of small movements and actions, gestures begun and never completed. Repeated images, sometimes in colour, sometimes not. A beautifully realized type of chamber-music film whose sum-total feeling is ritualistic.” – Robert Cowan, Take One
Handtinting
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Using spray paint and markers, the film animates moving hand shapes, outlined hands, crossing hands, hand prints, intertwining fingers. This simple visual concept, hand outline tracings, shows the artistry involved in the manipulation of colour, texture, and rhythm.
Hand
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Hammu is the name of the hamster I had as a child. It seemed it was my only friend and being to identify with. One day it disappeared from the cage and was never to be seen again; that event marked the end of my childhood, of unreserved trust and commitment. The work is a visualization of memories I have about the event ,of obsessions, tediousness, and loss. (SV)
Hammu
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“Grenier’s “D’Apres Meg”, departs from the routine of structuralist cinema. Through the repetition and fragmentation of physical gesture, wild sound and snatches of conversation, Grenier elicits narrative possibilities from otherwise disparate elements. Repetition is, after all a form of insistence. In “D’Apres Meg” small hand gestures are microscopically observed in their everyday context, a garden conversation, a construction site, a gallery setting. By taking our common peripheral vision of events seriously, Grenier produces an evocative enigma. From these images and bits of conversations, which are equally mundane, a new kind of disinterested seeing can be engaged. One that does not deflect meaning as invite it through repetition.” – Raphael Bendahan, Vanguard, 1985
Apres Meg, D’
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Ed’s lonely existence in a run-down rooming house is shaken up when a family moves in down the hall. After circumstances out of his control leave him to take care of Missy, the young daughter, Ed soon finds out that his past childhood and Missy’s present family conditions have much in common.
Hall Noises
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“guise” is an adult fairy tale for the 90s. Arising from the earth, a body discovers its nakedness. A suit of armour becomes a metaphor for the trappings of identity. Pixilated to produce the effect of a human marionette, accompanied by a good-natured verse. “guise” is by turns dark and humorous.
guise
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Meet Big and Little Edie Beale – high society dropouts, mother and daughter, reclusive cousins of Jackie O. – thriving together amid the decay and disorder of their ramshackle East Hampton mansion. Five years after “Gimme Shelter,” the Maysles unveiled this impossibly intimate portrait of the unexpected, an eerie echo of the Kennedy Camelot, which has since become a cult classic and established Little Edie as fashion icon and philosopher queen.
Grey Gardens
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Three-strip Technicolour type separation-printing (“subtractive”), which has archival as well as artistic potential. A black-and-white intermediate was made for each of the three emulsion layers (cyan, magenta, yellow) in an old auto-racing documentary; the exciting scene is repeated to show six basic colour variations in which the green flag and grass turn purple, orange, red, and blue.
Green Flag, The
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In “Green Dream”, Josephine Massarella has infused her vibrant, impressionistic images of nature with the spirit of the goddess Artemis. Evocative and abstract, “Green Dream” relies on a wide range of experimental techniques, including pixilation, optical printing, and manipulated motion to achieve a dreamlike state where the relevance of beauty and the irrelevance of use can be contemplated. Reminiscent of the work of French experimental filmmaker Rose Lawder, “Green Dream” confronts modern overdevelopment with overpowering life forces.
Green Dream
