Directing
film by Antonia Kuo
'Cataract' captures views of the forest shot through translucent ink paintings. The hand-processed film ebbs between textural, painterly abstraction and glimpses of natural landscape.
'Seeing Double' is a stop motion collage animation that exploits the frame-by-frame structure of film within the fleeting pace and temporality of an immersive optical experience. A series of flickering compositions explore the cycles inherent in all scales of biological matter, ranging from flora and fauna to terrestrial topographies. The geometric, yet nebulous forms reflect the dichotomy between the imposed order and erratic flux of nature.
'Chameleon' repurposes security envelope patterns into hand-processed color photograms through several generations of contact and optical printing. Live performances feature variable speed projection, heightening the experience of scale and movement.
Film and Sound by Antonia Kuo
"Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air's embrace." - Lucretious, 1st c. B.C.
