hi! i’m an experimental filmmaker and critical maker who teaches cinema and media studies at a midwestern public university. i’ve been inspired by much of the work shared in this thread and thought i’d share some of my own.
i’ve been making both film and video works since i was fairly young but wasn’t really familiar with experimental traditions until my time as a cinematic arts student at university in 2002. i became excited about new and unfamiliar ways that a filmmaker could engage with an audience and the tones/textures/fields of view that might be presented. i’ve since become interested in the ways that audio-visual media allow us to craft new or different ways to ask questions and play with theory, as opposed to becoming boxed in by language and the page. being on lines has been a tremendous help in terms of considering a lot of these questions in more acoustic terms but, of course, like many of you have said, there are quite a few crossing points here with the visual field.
in general, i’m very interested in questions of space and place, memory, and technology. not to sound too pretentious, but i really enjoy thinking about the nature of editing as more of a ‘fold’ than a ‘splice,’ which lets me talk about my work in terms of short form origami if you will.
despite this thread has being a bit more focused on the ‘film industry,’ i thought i’d chime in with a more underground/experimental perspective. here are a few works that also make use of modular electronics:
