Blake Williams

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Blake Williams

Blake Williams (Houston) is an American filmmaker. Born in Houston, Texas in 1985, Blake Williams lives and works as an artist in Toronto. His films have screened at festivals including Locarno, Toronto, New York, and the Berlinale. Alongside his work as an artist, he is also a film critic for Cinema Scope and Filmmaker magazines.

Known For

Laberint SequencesLaberint Sequences · 2023
Laberint Sequences
★ 5.72023
MovieDrama
Shot in and around the Laberint d’Horta in Barcelona, the film charts several journeys into the garden in search of its centre, where a statue of Eros waits. As the film navigates the maze’s false pathways, its recursive structure begins to crack, and a mysterious underworld floods its gates.
Something HorizontalSomething Horizontal · 2015
Something Horizontal
2015
Movie
Flashes of Victorian domestic surfaces and geometric shadows transform the physical world into a somber, impressionistic abstraction, while elsewhere a spectre emerging from the depths of German Expressionism reminds us that what goes up always comes down.
FELTFELT · 2025
FELT
2025
MovieDocumentary
A man sees mountains and sets out to recreate them. During a traverse across the Western United States, we observe familiar sites in a new light, and the world gets lost in the fold.
Red CapriccioRed Capriccio · 2014
Red Capriccio
2014
Movie
A found footage film in three movements, drafting arrangements of motion with stasis, police with the policed, and reds with blues.
Baby BlueBaby Blue · 2013
Baby Blue
2013
Movie
An anaglyph 3D found-footage film. None of the source material was shot stereoscopically; rather, the 3D effects are reliant on the phenomenon of motion parallax. Via its time delay strategy, visual depth illusions manifest themselves (or not, in some cases) through horizontal motions in the camera and/or its subjects. Clips of trains, space shuttles, beaches, and cyclopes butt against one another to present a doleful impression of mutated technologies, gestures, and species.
No SignalNo Signal · 2009
No Signal
★ 2.02009
Movie
A consumer grade DLP projector is powered on without a signal.
PROTOTYPEPROTOTYPE · 2017
PROTOTYPE
★ 3.02017
MovieScience FictionDocumentary
As a major storm strikes Texas in 1900, a mysterious televisual device is built and tested. Blake Williams’ experimental 3D sci-fi film immerses us in the aftermath of the Galveston disaster to fashion a haunting treatise on technology, cinema, and the medium’s future.
DepartDepart · 2012
Depart
★ 3.02012
Movie
Moves through various modes of software and internet aesthetics, framing images of sublime landscapes and flying vehicles (airplanes, space shuttles, UFOs), pseudo-handheld glimpses of the world and digitally animated fireflies.

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