The Sound of
Running in my Voice
Films by Mary
Helena Clark
TRT: 60
minutes
After Writing,
Clark, 2008
3 min., 16mm
Scraps of text gathered from molding filmstrips and peeling chalkboards
are photographed and intercut with pinhole shots from a schoolhouse.
Orpheus (outtakes), Clark, 2014
6 min., 16mm
"Using
footage from Cocteau's Orphée, Mary Helena Clark optically prints an
interstitial space where the ghosts of cinema lurk beyond and within the
frames." - Andrea Picard
The Sound of Running in My Voice, Clark, 2014
8 min., Digital
video
We ape
naturalism. (Overheard)
And the sun flowers, 2008
5 min., digital
video
By foot-candle light, 2011
9 min., digital
video
A walk through
the proscenium wings. You close your eyes and suddenly it is dark. (MHC)
"In the
dream we call cinema there is no either, no or. We move from cave to forest to
theater and back again, certain only that we are elsewhere, at least until the reel
runs out. Here is objective truth, or “hypnosis” by another name." - Ben
Russell
The Plant, Clark, 2012
8 min., digital video
A spy film, built on the bad geometry of point-of-view shots.
Sound Over
Water, Clark, 2008
5min, 16mm
Blue sky and blue sea meet on emulsion.
The Dragon is the Frame, Clark, 2014
14 min., 16mm
An experimental
detective film made in remembrance: keeping a diary, footnotes of film history,
and the puzzle of depression.
What are you thinking?
I am thinking of how many times this
poem
Will be repeated. How many summers
Will torture California
Until the damned maps burn
Until the mad cartographer
Falls to the ground and possesses
The sweet thick earth from which he has been hiding.
Will be repeated. How many summers
Will torture California
Until the damned maps burn
Until the mad cartographer
Falls to the ground and possesses
The sweet thick earth from which he has been hiding.
What are you thinking now?
-
Jack
Spicer, Psychoanalysis: An Elegy
