Forrest Sprague
Directing
Known For
Ryzyup (pronounced rih-zee-up) presents a series of unstable, shifting images that resist clear recognition. Shapes appear briefly before dissolving back into motion and texture. The film invites a mode of attention where perception softens and the viewer begins to drift inward.
Ryzyup
The story of quantum Alice and quantum Bob. Words, and music. A film within the film. What is in the mind of an autistic baby? An animal baby. What is in the mind of Bob and Alice? The pathos of Bob and Alice. Looking for my ghost.
A Private Room
The first part in a series of five exhibiting the evolution of demolition and construction over the course of two years. Epiphany (I) establishes the three principal variables: man, earth, and machine. "An epiphany in every shot" -Larry Gottheim.
Epiphany (I)
By Forrest Sprague
Cherokee
Created for Close-Up Cinema's 20th Anniversary
Up Close
The images take on a pictorial flattening of their space to almost a collage or even decollage-esque effect. One that constructs upon itself with beams and wires but also one that excavates into itself by spraying away ground or simply digging. The workers are very much pieces of this space. So they may be read as material, as cost, like the sheet metal. As tools in a work and world. The material reality of what is filmed, labour, and the relevance of that to any history of collage in using found materials or repeated stacking and sticking and tearing of sheets of publications or signifiers to work.
Epiphany (III)
An ode to NYPL -F.S.
New York Projected Light
By Forrest Sprague
North Shore
"The play of abstraction and at the same time realism gives rise to many thoughts beyond the sheer visual pleasure." -Larry Gottheim
Palinopsia
By Forrest Sprague
Four for Deep Breadth
The duration of the shot determines the meter. And, often enough, a movement within the shot determines the shot’s length. The edges of frames are indicators, and they have a Diebenkornian importance. His Ocean Park series, like the construction pit, make incidentals (a worker's gestures, notes of an overpainted color) the indicators that consummate the field.
Epiphany (II)
For Joe -F.S.
Epiphany (IV)
For Larry -F.S.
Epiphany (V)
By Forrest Sprague
To Macedon
By Forrest Sprague