The Ruined Cast

Last night I went to see Christian Marclay’s exhibition at Paula Cooper Gallery. They are screening his video The Clock nonstop each weekend until February 19th. It is one of the most tediously assembled found footage works I’ve seen so far. The 24 hour loop is comprised of very short scenes from all sorts of [...]

I discovered my favorite animation technique, “strata cutting,” while watching Magic Screen sequences that recount American History on PeeWee’s Playhouse. It took me a while to figure out what this mesmerizing technique was called and who did it, but after researching it again recently, there was far more information available. David Daniel’s pioneered this psychedelic [...]

Tomorrow, 10/12, Martha Colburn will be projecting animations with live sound at Issue Project Room in Brooklyn. I haven’t yet seen her perform at a screening, but I have projected a bunch of her shorts on 16mm from the Film Maker’s Co Op, while curating a series called “Films on Film.” Her works are some [...]