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.
Between poetic observation and cinematographic portrait, this film delves into the universe of the sculptor Leo Vinci. At 92 years old, Leo plays at creating and transmuting the sacrifice of daily work into the sacred office of transforming the world with his hands.
As Sicilian journalist Giuseppe Quatriglio turns 90, his daughter starts filming him. When he dies, she keeps on filming. Boxes become archival materials, as journeys, women and post-war Europe come to the fore. And in the end, there is a father.
A documentary told through real-life testimony and movement, exploring the emotional and psychological effects of police officers’ stop and searches on Black men. The film features Jaydee Dyer who recounts his experiences of being stopped and searched from the age of 11 to adulthood.
A collaborative film made after a cyanotype on 16mm film workshop taught by artist and filmmaker Kate Lain, sponsored by the Interbay Cinema Society and Northwest Film Forum. Featuring film by Brenan Chambers, Brenda Burmeister, Caryn Cline, Chris Day, Cindy Stillwell, Devon Damonte, Eileen Roscina, Ellie Kozlowski, Jade Finlinson, Jen Proctor, Jonah Kozlowski, Panteha Abareshi, Paul Siple, Rana San, Ruth Hayes, and Ursula Brookbank. Music by the Greenblatt Generations Band: Dan Greenblatt (sax), Tatum Greenblatt (trumpet), and Ed Fuqua (bass).
A beaver is asked for his final job to inquire about Leonidas W. Smiley on Polmen's Farm. What ensues can only be described as a truly possessed 3 days.
A deconstructed how-to haiku for staying afloat through the endurance sport of life. Featuring "Polycalia Myrtifolia" from album "Seeds" by Pablo Schvarzman.
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.
And I measure deals with human-centered scientific experiments, exploring the concept of measurement when applied to ourselves. Our body parts, cleaned, fixed, connected, become an inexhaustible source of data. But why do we measure? What do we feel when we measure?
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.
Under Darkness is a poetic, video collage incorporating stop motion animation. This video explores ideas behind the theme of Insomnia. Filmed after dark, the multiple layering of images and sound draws the viewer into the unsettling emotional world of the insomniac. The words and text are based on a Poem about insomnia by Rebecca Goldthorpe.
A visual exploration of colors, kinetic landscapes and optical effects. An observation of nature through the vision of a macro world made of plants, insects, spider webs and debris. The ground crumbles in the crust of monochrome surfaces, the sea flies into infinite bits of pixels, the chameleon landscape suspends time.
A possessive doctor prepares an ostensibly romantic bath for his narcissistic boyfriend, but after an accusation of infidelity, things take a deeply disturbing turn.
The large Sedláček and Půlpán family in the Czech Republic consists of two amicably divorced Deaf parents and their hearing children, known as CODAs. Focusing on their 16-year-old daughter Jolanka, this insightful documentary presents a fresh perspective from a modern family in central Europe.
Sindhu Sreenivasa Murthy’s six-minute short pitch to Dr. Puneeth Rajkumar & Ashwini Puneeth Rajkumar, which blossomed into an acclaimed feature film ‘Aachar & Co.’, a delightful blend of nostalgia, humor & drama.
