Rana San
Directing
Known For
A collaborative botanicollage film poem by participants in the festival workshop, Dreaming Ecosystems, led by poet Mita Mahato and filmmaker Caryn Cline.
Dreaming Ecosystems
A deconstructed how-to haiku for staying afloat through the endurance sport of life. Featuring "Polycalia Myrtifolia" from album "Seeds" by Pablo Schvarzman.
synch : swim
A collaborative video poem by participants in the festival workshop, Risograph Animated Poetry Workshop with Zine Hug, set to Dao Strom’s poem “POEM OF POEM TITLES FOR ‘DAYS OF THE WEEK’”. This poem was originally published in Instrument with Traveler’s Ode as a collaborative print book publication + cassette album release of Fonograf Editions and Antiquated Future Records (2020).
POEM OF POEM TITLES FOR "DAYS OF THE WEEK"
Some things are better left unsaid. This is a true story about one of those things.
Disarmed
2D objects reveal a couple’s three-dimensional fault lines.
Paper Plain
An artist collects and processes images of their mother’s restaurant kitchen and their grandmother’s daily life, reanimating memory and embodied knowledge through various image formats: 35mm portraits on oscillating lenticular prints, laserjet prints of 35mm film transferred onto 16mm loops, and photographic prints on polystyrene. An intergenerational critique unfolds.
refrigerator hum
Hammered into 16mm found footage of a police propaganda film, subtext emerges letter for letter from the redundancy of repeated text—a reclamation of bodily autonomy from those who pose as protectors.