VISITATION

Surrealistic and strange, cast in grainy 16mm images, the film VISITATION allows an imaginary glimpse into the aura of “an outer-world night”. . . the visions in the film are summoned from the film maker's imagining of a mythical eternity which is beautiful but fraught with pain, exposed by the ether voices and figures which inhabit the eternal ballet beneath our consciousness. “'My mood at the time had served to aggravate those deeply inhuman and most terrible beings when they came with total abandonment from where they had lurked amongst the stones and wet woods”… With these lines, VISITATION unwinds through a hand painted heavenly hell of unending life and death; steeped in the alchemical and inner dream life the film explores a black and white landscape of gothic figures who enact evolving metaphysical dramas.

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Using painted cut-outs and early cinema techniques (multiple passes, mattes, multi-plane levels, in-camera superimpositions, shutter manipulation, etc.) the film was shot with a 16mm Bolex camera in black and white which gives it a grainy handmade look. The abstract passages were created by placing objects directly onto raw film and exposing the film with a flashlight. Thus the film's process mirrors the alchemical nature of chemical, material, and metaphysical experimentation. VISITATION was animated in collaboration with Masha Vasilkovsky in my LA studio.

Selected Screenings
Ann Arbor Film Festival and National Tour
London International Animation Festival
Maryland Film Festival
Humboldt Film festival
Wexner Center for the Arts
Seattle International Film Festival
Los Angeles Filmforum
Future Imperfect: The Uncanny in Science Fiction - Museum of Modern Art, NY