Russo is a contemporary experimental filmmaker and animator, who studied at the California Institute of the Arts. "Goodbye" is an CGI-award-winning animated short film incorporating recorded interviews and experimentation with pace and cutting to create an interesting timeline. This 10-month project was modeled using Zbrush, animated in Cinema4D, edited in After Effects where the film's heavy use of color-correction and experimentation with composition were designed. It was then pieced together in premiere.
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Deren was a Russian-American experimental and avant-garde filmmaker in the 1940'5-50's before she died in 1961. Her fascination with dance, Haitian Voodou and psychology informed a lot of her work. Deren's films use a lot of jumpcuts, superimposition, slow-frame rates and multiple-exposure to achieve her surreal, black and white films. Derren acknowledged dance in "Ritual in Transfigured Time" in suggesting, “A ritual is an action that seeks the realisation of its purpose through the exercise of form…In ritual, the form is the meaning. It’s an inversion towards life, the passage from sterile winter into fertile spring”. – Maya Deren: Chamber Films, program notes for a presentation, 1960 Menken was an American filmmaker who first worked as a painter but grew bored of its static nature and moved into avant-garde film as a part of the Gryphon Group in the 1940's. Her background in painting influenced her filming style, as evident in her animations, collage and stop-motion work. "Lights" is a silent color film on 16mm, and two-year project finished in '66. Making use of color and abstract movement, akin to scribbles and mark-making is indeed painterly. Jesse Smith's 2016 "Ants" is an experimental short film using a monologue about fear and helplessness to instigate spatial and design fluctuations. The sound design makes use of repetition, speed and pitch experiments to reflect the character's narrative. Relatable content. Elise Seifert graduated from the UNCG School of Music in 2012 with a degree in Music Composition. While at UNCG, she had a number of pieces performed by internationally-known groups such as Daedalus Quartet and the Oasis Saxophone Quartet. Seifert recently attended the Hollywood Music Workshop in Baden, Austria, where she studied with Conrad Pope and Joe Kraemer. Seifert is currently interested in composing film scores. "Red Bridge" is one of several student films she has made sound tracks for. Zeinabu Davis received her undergrad from Brown University and her MFA in film and video production from UCLA. She has since worked in narrative, experimental and documentary filmmaking. Davis describes her Black Feminist or Womanist art and story-telling lens, as "developing a new genre that constitutes a black aesthetic". Such films include "Cycles" 1989, a 16mm experimental film about Rasheeda Allen, a young girl anticipating her first period, it is "drawing on Caribbean folklore, this exuberant experimental drama uses animation and live action to discover a film language unique to African American women. The multilayered soundtrack combines a chorus of women's voices with the music of Africa and the diaspora-including Miriam Makeba, acappella singers from Haiti and trumpetiste Clora Bryant" http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/makers/fm26.shtml Chris Cassidy, currently Associate Professor of New Media & Design and Interim Director of the School of Art at the UNCG, will be delivering an artist talk March 6th to discuss his work and making digital, interactive-based installations. His work has appeared in exhibitions throughout the US as well as in international venues. He has been commissioned for work by private and public institutions, including the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia and the State University of New York at Albany. Recent projects use interactive digital media to explore how experience of place is mediated by pre-existing mental constructs like maps and models, and the potential of technology to radically alter the perceptual relationship between individuals and their environment. "This is the final edit of video documenting Walking the Years, the interactive video project I created for Art in Odd Places on November 1 – 2" -Cassidy https://chrismcassidy.wordpress.com/2013/11/15/art-in-odd-places-greensboro/ https://videopress.com/v/6m6PeQ2X
Fine-artist photographer, Cindy Sherman expanded her creative direction in the late 90's to write and direct this comedy-horror. Sherman artfully composed each shot much like her photography work, creating visual interest by directing the camera's perspective through mirrors, along the ground, and from behind subjects. While this is a horror movie with plenty of gore, Sherman interjects a dark sense of comedy and quirkiness with her main character Dorine, who leads a very strange life. "In a nameless city deluged by a continuous rain... three rabbits live with a fearful mystery". Part of a horror series, this short film pays attention to surreal human-rabbit characters existing in their own microcosm of domestic life. Drawn-out repetitive actions and disjointed conversations are interwoven by soundtrack-laughter, creating an unforgettable atmosphere. A classic video-art/performance-piece, as well as feminist critique on 20th century gender roles, Martha Rosler comments on woman becoming a sign of the food production system, as she replaces the domesticated meaning of tools with a lexicon of rage and frustration. This transforms an understanding of tools of production and gendered performance, to be violent and obsolete, as we watch Rosler "cook". She remarked about her work that, "when the woman speaks, she names her own oppression." Rosler created the video as a parody of cooking shows, herself as the host, using a static camera angle and recognizable set. |