Pull/Drift. Waiting sands. Gowanus haze. Scansion. Dark logic. One document for hope. Spaziergang. Vindmoøller. Memory of August. Chorus.
Notes:
Self published; margaret.b.rarison@gmail.com
Contents:
Pull/Drift (9 min.) -- The Waiting Sands (5 min.) -- Gowanus Haze (6 min.) -- Scansion (8 min.) --Dark Logic (5 min.)-- One Document for Hope (8 min.) -- Der Spaziergang (3 min.) -- Vindmoøller (3 min.) -- Memory of August (5 min.) -- Chorus (2 min.).
Summary:
Short films by Margaret Rorison. Pull/Drift. This film documents a unique choreographed performance that took place one late summer afternoon in Patapsco State Park in Baltimore, Maryland. Choreographed by Clarissa Stowell Gregory and performed by The Effervescent Collective, 2013.. Dark Logic. An ode to the restricted space and surveillance in the skies. Sound derived from a live performance by Mario de Vega Shot in Los Angeles, Summer 2015. Vindmoøller. This short film is a study of the wind turbines along the shores of Amager, Copenhagen. Triple exposed on one roll of color film, then finding four generations of grain. The soundtrack is a recorded live improvisation by artist Mario de Vega using unstable media and acoustic resonators, 2014.Chorus. A cadence of history between one long pause, 2017. Scansion. is a short 16 mm film composed of extensive walks through various Baltimore landscapes. The film has been hand edited like a poem, where cuts function like line breaks, working to establish inherent rhythm and meter, 2012. Der Spaziergang. This film documents long walks throughout Berlin, Germany during the cold days of April 2013. The film is edited in camera and composed of single frame snapshots along with longer moments of glance, captured on one 100' roll of film. The title comes from a story by Robert Walser, 2013. One Document for Hope. The sterile and procedural narrative of the Baltimore City Police Scanner on Monday April 27 against precious moments of gathering, celebration and protest in Baltimore from April 28 - May 3, 2015. Memory of August. A series of moments captured in room 139. Intimate spaces of time spent with my grandmother, Margaret during a month long recovery in a rehabilitation center in Baltimore, Maryland, 2016. The Waiting Sands. In the last month of my grandfather's life, he was omitted to the hospital with terminal conditions. Unable to film him, I began to capture the harvest moon outside his bedroom window as a way to cope with the emotions I was experiencing. A few hours after the footage had been shot, my grandfather passed away, 2013. Gowanus Haze. The footage captures a landscape known as The Gowanus Canal, an area of Brooklyn, 2012.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1090063784
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.