Chiaroscuro

A choreographed motion study for twinkling trinkets, beaming baubles, and glaring glimmers. A bow ballet ablaze (for bedazzled buoyant bijoux brought up to boil).

An old one, from the early days of my super 8 filmmaking. The Patti Smith Group live in N.J. 1976. The aliens are coming. Take me up, up……..

A super 8 film conceived and shot by my friend Franklin Johnson around 1975 with additional footage shot by me. Features our longtime friend Marlis Spauchus ( Dunn ). Music by Terry Riley.

# 2 in a series of personal short super 8 films called " The Quotidian Lyrics ".

My first use of superimposition and cut-out animation. Winner of a grand prize in the best experimental film category at the annual Super 8 Film and Digital Video Festival held at Rutgers University

3 days of the 2012 Fresh Grass Festival at Mass MoCA condensed in 3 1/2 minutes of Super 8 film. Edited in camera.

The objects found inside the house seemed of little historical importance - two diaries. But taken together, they form a fantastical little story… and so a filmmaker finds herself caught between fiction and memory, believing in impossibilities.

Threnody: a song of lamentation for the dead. Filmed over a period of two years in various old cemeteries in Thetford, Vermont, where I live, and surrounding towns. Music by Noveller ( Sarah Lipstate ).

Impression of a performance of the Flock dance troupe at AVA Gallery in Lebanon, NH.

A summing up of the spontaneous Super 8 filmmaking I have done over the past decade exploring nature, home, and friends using improvised distorting lenses, macro photography, and pixillation. I imagine that it would fit the film scholar P. Adams Sitney's definition of a " Quotidian Lyric". Music by 2 of my favorite percussion ensembles : Ensemble et. al. and TIGUE.

Two men materialized on the empty street...

Created for and screened at the 2nd Annual FilmOne Fest in Atlantic Highlands NJ. It's not as easy as it might sound to make a one minute film.

Documentation of Sonia Landy Sheridan and Aldo Tambellini in conversation with Bruce Posner.

The British prog-rock band Camel in action in the mid-70's. For my old friend Ian Ward and his brother Andy Ward the drummer for Camel. Shot on Super 8 film.

"Everything is water if you look long enough" —Robert Creeley

Spontaneous Super 8 explorations of the internal and external landscapes of my life as 2012 passes into 2013. Largely edited in camera. Music by Sarah Lipstate.