filmography

Leslie Raymond: film/videography Potter-Belmar Labs

Rife w/ Fire, 1996 16mm film, 8 min	Twa Corbies, 2000 digital video, 6 min	Low Voltage Collection, 2003 digital video, 12 min	Amelita Destruction, 2004 digital video, 4:45 min	Settings, 2005 digital video, 13:42	Characters, 2005 digital video, 15:42	Pandora's Bike, 2006 digital video, 12:30	A Beautiful Brocade, 2006 digital video, 4:30
I began documenting Stephen Rife's pyrotechnic demonstrations in 1994. From non-dairy-creamer explosions to projectiles of burning steel wool and experiments with flaming paraffin & water, I discovered how the medium of fire lends itself magnificently to the medium of film, as they share rudimentary principles of light and movement. selected screenings: Ladyfest, San Francisco CA Images Festival, Toronto Canada EIGA Arts, Saga-Ken Japan LOW-FI Video, Belgrade Yugoslavia Cinema Texas, Austin TX Madcat Int’l Film Festival, S.F. CA Women In the Director’s Chair at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN awards: Anti-Film Festival - Best of Festival Ann Arbor Film Fest - Best Local Filmmaker MMAAC, Minneapolis - Women Filmmakers Access Grant o	Twa Corbies is video in five parts, based on the historic Scottish ballad of the same name. It has exhibited as a single-channel piece, as well as interactive installation. Twa Corbies was projected as an ongoing loop at “Immedia 1901,” the annual electronic media event at the University of Michigan Media Union, on a 30’ x 40’ screen. An installation version consisted of the video projection with two sculptural elements containing speakers. The user could access the sound by pulling on wooden handles dangling from these “pull-boxes.” This installation exhibited at “ArtSeen 8” in Windsor, Ontario (Canada); and Craig Baldwin’s “De Facto Films” event at the Soap Factory in Minneapolis, Minnesota.	This collection of six shorts was created for the Low Voltage Film Festival in St. Paul MN, and responded to various categories such as horror, cooking, and calamity. the series includes: Esther Levine's Chicken Washing Technique Girl Shoots 2 Boys Brawling! Fortress Fortress II selected screenings: Ann Arbor Film Festival Media Art Freisland, the Netherlands Other Cinema, San Francisco CA Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SF CA Antimatter Festival, Victoria BC Sydney Film Festival, Australia Milwaukee Underground Film Festival Rooftop Films, Brooklyn NY Project 101, Paris France Lundabio Cinema, Reykjavik Iceland Starlight Drive-In, Black Rock City NV Axiom Theater, Houston TX 21 Grand, Oakland CA awards: Edible Rex Film Festival - First Place Low Voltage Film Festival - Third Place	Amelita Destruction is a segment of a live Potter-Belmar Labs set, during which the prevailing, corrupted order begins to suffer an epic collapse. This video was published in the Journal of Short Film, volume 1. screenings: PDX Festival, Portland OR LUFF, Lausanne Switzerland	Presented as storefront cinema at the Matrix Gallery in Ann Arbor, this piece originated as a group of single-channel loops. screenings: Planet Ant Film Festival, Detroit awarded: First Prize - Video Installation Orilla#06 Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Santa Fe, Argentina	This example of Potter-Belmar Labs improvised cinema was created for and performed at the 43rd Ann Arbor Film Festival.	A spectacle of sight and sound, with a hint of something narrative, presented in three chapters. A woman needs her bicycle and to find it, she must transcend this earthly plane, it's hardship and confusion, and gain a greater understanding of the cosmos, and the true meaning of "bicycle." Potter-Belmar Labs mixes their signature experimental video and sound with images from De Sica and Hitchcock. screenings: Sound Film Festival, Laredo TX Reel Shorts at The Arts Center, Saratoga Springs NY	Original music accompanies a beautiful video mix which includes time lapsed film shot at the artists' wedding at the Art Farm in rural Nebraska.