Hyperrhiz 2

Four Films

Sandra Powers


Citation: Powers, Sandra. “Four Films.” Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures, no. 2, 2006. doi:10.20415/hyp/002.g01

Abstract: My films incorporate early film and painterly aesthetics, resulting in surrealistic imagery that is derived from my dreams and imagination. They exist in a theatre setting that is starkly visual, revealing a poetic and sometimes macabre world. I hand?crank my camera and hand?splice my films. Each film has my fingerprints all over it. To express my cinematic ideas further, I paint and optically print the film. Once the film’s structure is all set, I reprocess the film using a variety of digital compositing and effects software. My artistic choices are intuitive, personal and decisive.


PLAY Di Meliora


PLAY Little Mary


PLAY Magic Mountain


PLAY Jeden Pohadka Okolo Jeden Fantazie


Screenings

  • Little Mary screened at EXIS Experimental Film and Seoul, Korea 2006 Video Festival, Sept.1-8, 2006
  • Magic Mountain screened at Festival Images Contre Nature/ Marceille Cedex, France 2006 P'Silo, in the programme Time, June 27-July 1, 2006
  • Di Meliora premiered at Her Shorts, Tucson, AZ 2006
    1st Annual Women's International film festival, May 18-21, 2006
  • Las Hijas De Endor, Little Mary & Magic Mountain Den Haag, Netherlands 2006 Screened at Festival Begane Grond, April 14-18, 2006
  • Las Hijas De Endor & Magic Mountain exhibited Boston, MA 2006 At CAA BFA Regional Exhibition at Boston University 808 Gallery
  • Magic Mountain screened at Starting From Scratch
    Amsterdam, Netherlands 2006 At the Cinema De Balie Amsterdam, Feb. 18 & 19
  • Little Mary & El Mar exhibited at The Saratoga Saratoga Springs, NY 2006 Arts Center, from Dec. 31,2005-March 31, 2006
  • Little Mary, Magic Mountain, Claudia & El Mar Somerville, MA 2005, 2006 exhibited during COMACENTRAL.COM's beta Launch (on internet), Dec. 31, 2005?March 31, 2006.
  • Little Mary & Claudia exhibited at Filtro Foto, Miami, FL 2005 in their own room, for Art Basel 2005
  • Claudia screened at ART+OFFICIAL EYE, Boston, MA 2005 MassArt Video/Film New Media Screening Series