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A collection of short experimental horror films, some well-known, some not.
"Fire Fly EYE" is my response to the devastating re-making of the world brought on by anthropogenic climate change and corporate "stewardship" of our natural resources. A ritual of reclamation in the face of overwhelming destruction, invoked through filming discarded consumer products, sifting spectacle out of catastrophe. -K.L.
The inherent violence that is intimated at in this handprocessed film, can only offer a clue of past interventions.
"Terra Firma" uses 35mm film material that I had laboriously* mastered from a 1908 nitrate print of a " Trip Down Market Street", incorporated with other found images of San Francisco’s built environment before the 1906 disaster. Other images have been gathered from archival photographic materials from numerous vantage points depicting the built space of early San Francisco. Some images that have been re-worked are panoramic in scope, and comprised of pans of large format still images taken by Edweard Muybridge in 1878.
Film/video hybrid in Chromadepth 3D.
Educational film material is hand-processed, manipulated, and recontextualized by the voices of women at the newest U.S. Supreme Court Justice's confirmation hearing.
"Kerry Laitala's love of the movie process gives rise to richly crafted and oddly unclassifiable imagery. Re-inventing an antique movie technology using a revolving glass disc, projected lighy and a sequence of early black and white images, and merging it with the later technology of 16mm film, RETROSPECTROSCOPE pulls the moving image backward into a sense of wonder that is both nostalgic and strangely new. –Scott Stark
Tennessee Williams called the sea "the cradle of life." From the Great Pacific Garbage Patch to other vast trash gyres that exist in every ocean on the planet, this environment has become one of destruction caused by humankind's avarice and thoughtlessness. This 16mm dual projection work explores the plight of marine creatures, especially the majestic albatross whose population has become severely affected by the presence of plastic and other man-made ocean waste.
Shot in the filmaker's studio, frantic colored lights permeate the atmosphere. Vibrating swathes of color penetrate the darkness; searchlight spectrums of suspended crystalline forms inspired by the like of Wolfgang Von Goethe, Itten, Belson, Fischinger and Len Lye.
Digital video in Chromadepth 3D. "The bubbly dayglo images and bleepy beats added a nice sacriligous feeling, since experimental film shows often feel like going to church." -David Cairns