Northern Flickers- Botanicollage with Caryn Cline

Northern Flickers- Botanicollage with Caryn Cline (Evergreen Visiting Faculty)

Northern, The Olympia All Ages Project

Thursday, March 13, 2014 at 7:00pm

Northern Flickers presents live and in-person for one night only
Caryn Cline
Botanicollage
plus three by Mel
a showing of short experimental films
Thursday, March 13th @ 7pm
caryncline.com/films

intheconservatory
Film Still from “In the Conservatory”

The program includes:

“In the Conservatory” (2010, 16mm film, 5 minutes)
Starring euphorbia splendens (“crown of thorns”), variegated ivy, zygocactus (“Christmas cactus”), coleus, clerodendrum (“glory bower”), orchid, euphorbia fulgens, adiantum raddianum (“maidenhair fern”), and acalypha wilkesiana (“copper leaf”) collected and reanimated from a gray winter day in Seattle’s Volunteer Park Conservatory.

botanicollage
Film still from “Botanicollage”

“Botanicollage” (2011, .mov, 3 minutes)
Workshop film made by Evergreen students.

Students in the “Botany: Plants and People” class at The Evergreen State College produced handmade frames on 16mm film that were combined, digitized, extended and edited by their workshop teacher, filmmaker Caryn Cline. Caryn also created the soundtrack, working with a jazz song by Chuck Metcalf combined with the sounds of people at play, recorded in Riverside Park, New York City.

equinox
Film Still from “Equinox”

“Equinox,” (2011, .mov, 5 minutes)
A botanicollage film in which 16mm, hole-punched black frames, their inner circles filled with plants gleaned in Seattle, animated and optically printed by filmmaker Caryn Cline, interact with the complex rhythms of Barcelona-born, New York-trained composer and jazz bassist Alexis Cuadrado’s group, Noneto Ibérico.

LeftSideRiverside
Film still from “Left Side, Riverside”

“Left Side, Riverside” (2011, .mov, 8 minutes)
An experimental document of the filmmaker’s experience of Riverside Park, on the left side of Manhattan. The film combines “live action” footage and in-camera double exposures. This footage is then further layered by superimposing and bi-packing the camera footage with handmade and hand-painted film frames created by the filmmaker from plants and flowers she gleaned in Riverside Park. The ambient sounds come from both Riverside Park and the filmmaker’s childhood home in northeastern Missouri.

CompostConfidential
Film still from “Compost Confidential”

“Compost Confidential” (2012, .mov, 4 minutes)

A recycled film that addresses our culture of waste. According to a Cornell University research report, eleven thousand tons of trash a day are discarded in New York City, and 15 to 40% is food scraps that could and should be composted. In “Compost Confidential,” handmade botanicollage film frames, saved from unrealized projects, were put in a compost bin, left for several weeks, then retrieved and optically-printed. In the printing process, the sprocket holes themselves, usually outside of the frame, were intentionally revealed as an element inside the frame. The soundtrack, recycled from an audio project, features interviews with urban composters at the Union Square Greenmarket in New York City.

perchance
Film still from “Perchance”

“Perchance” (2008, .mov, 3.5 minutes)
A young boy in an regimented world dreams of a different, freer self. Using found footage from two educational films, the filmmaker chose, combined, optically-printed and edited scenes to create a new story. Original score by Melissa Grey.

Plus some serendipitous CC surprises . . .

plus
3 Films by
Melissa Friedling

Garden Roll Bounce Parking Lot 4.5 min
Urine My Bed 3.5 min
The Slouch 3 min

Alumni Animated Short – The Regular

Brooklyn based animator, and Evergreen Alumni, Marina Gagarina, has a new animated short that just came out for your viewing pleasure.

Marina was a true interdisciplinary scholar and studied animation and science during her time at Evergreen. Mainly working with faculty, Ruth Hayes, for her animation instruction, Marina also supported the college through her employment at the office of Electronic Media where she provided animation and multi-media support.

Visiting Artist, Jodie Mack @ Northern All Ages

 

LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE

Thursday, May 30, 2013 at 7:00pmSun Beam

 Jodie Mack is an independent moving-image practitioner, curator, and historian-in-training who received her MFA in film, video, and new media from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007 and currently teaches animation at Dartmouth College. Combining the formal techniques and structures of abstract/absolute animation with those of cinematic genres, her handmade films use collage to explore the relationship between graphic cinema and storytelling, the tension between form and meaning. Mack’s 16mm films have screened at a variety of venues including the Anthology Film Archives, Images Festival, Los Angeles Filmforum, Onion City Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Black Maria Film Festival, and the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar.

Alumni Animation

Want to see what alumni are doing with their Evergreen experience?

Checkout the work of Marina, animation & science graduate, and previous animation lab aide now based out of Brooklyn New York.  Marina studied animation with faculty Ruth Hayes learning 2D animation techniques paired with After Effects.

If you want to see more, visit our Student & Alumni page.