POTTER-BELMAR LABS SINGLE- CHANNEL VIDEOS |
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Double Thunder,
2008 digital video, 6:00 |
A
Beautiful Brocade, 2006 digital video, 4:30 |
Pandora's
Bike, 2006 digital video, 12:30 |
Characters,
2005 digital video, 15:42 |
Settings,
2005 digital video, 13:42 |
Amelita
Destruction, 2004 digital video, 4:45 min |
Low
Voltage
Collection, 2003 digital video, 12 min |
Twa Corbies, 2000 digital video, 6 min |
Rife w/ Fire, 1996 16mm film, 8 min |
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The first movement of this
meteorological metaphor logs a journey, through town and countryside,
far away from home. The second is a composition of solace and
stillness. In the third and final movement, we weather a sudden
thunderstorm. |
Original music accompanies a
beautiful video mix which includes time lapsed film shot at the
artists' wedding at the Art Farm in rural Nebraska. |
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. |
This example of Potter-Belmar Labs improvised cinema was created for and performed at the 43rd Ann Arbor Film Festival. | Presented as storefront cinema
at the Matrix Gallery in Ann Arbor, this piece originated as a group of
single-channel loops. |
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 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 |
Twa Corbies is video
in five parts, based on the historic Scottish ballad of the same
name. It has exhibited as a single-channel video installation, as
well as
interactive installation. The interactive 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.” |
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. |
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awards: Fargo Film Festival Honorable Mention/ experimental category screenings: Antimatter Film Festival Victoria BC, Canada Experiments in Cinema Albuquerque NM Artsfest Film Festival Harrisburg PA Manipulated Image Santa Fe NM "Reflexivity Hum" Mighty Fine Arts Gallery Dallas TX curated by Mary Benedicto & Robert Flowers "Co-existing and Co-llaborating" Aurora Picture Show Houston TX and SPACES Cleveland OH curated by Mary Magsaman |
exhibitions: Blue Star 23, curated by David Rubin, San Antonio TX Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln NE |
screenings: 46th Ann Arbor Film Festival Sound Film Festival, Laredo TX exhibtions: Reel Shorts at The Arts Center, Saratoga Springs NY Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln NE |
exhibitions: Kiehle Gallery at St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud MN The McNay Art Museum, Artists Talking About Art program, San Antonio TX |
screenings: Planet Ant Film Festival, Detroit awards: First Prize - Video Installation Orilla#06 Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Santa Fe, Argentina exhibitions: Kiehle Gallery at St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud MN Gallery 100, San Antonio TX |
publications: Journal of Short Film, volume 1. screenings: PDX Festival, Portland OR Lausanne Underground Film Festival, Switzerland |
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 Fest - 1st Place Low Voltage Film Fest - 3rd Place Microcinema International volumes: various |
exhibitions: "Immedia 1901" University of Michigan Media Union “ArtSeen 8” Art Site, Windsor Ontario, Canada Craig Baldwin’s “De Facto Films,” Soap Factory in Minneapolis, Minnesota |
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, SF 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 Microcinema International volume 1 |