Hi Kate, You might take a look at Kirsten Lepore’s Hi Stranger:https://vimeo.com/190063150 <https://vimeo.com/190063150>. I showed it to my students for valentine’s day one year and they loved it.
Best, Ruth http://www.randommotion.com blogs.evergreen.edu/hayesr > On Dec 11, 2019, at 3:29 PM, kate lain <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, Frameworkers. I’m teaching a multi-part film/video-making workshop for > high schoolers. We’re exploring rituals of care, different self-care > practices, calming techniques, etc., and the students will be making a > collaborative collage film/video related to all that. I’d love to show them > some examples of moving image works for inspiration (or send them links to > things they can check out on their own). > > Do you have any recommendations for short films, videos, animations, gifs, > video art, etc. in the experimental/art vein that are that are viewable > online that might fit with this? (I'm not looking for things like straight > documentaries on self-care or anything -- I'm thinking about works that are > more poetic, more in the arena of video art or experimental film.) Note that > these students are brand new to experimental film, so I’m not looking for > particularly challenging works that could be frustrating to them. Instead, > I’m looking for pieces that are slower, poetic, perhaps repetitive, > meditative that someone might be able to relax into. A couple of films that > come to mind are Amy Halpern’s “Invocation” (except there's no digital > version, dang it, and I can only show digital at this school) and James > Whitney’s “Lapis”. But I hope to find more works that, like "Invocation," > work with representational imagery—and works that, in particular, use > documentation/documentary-style moving images since the students will > recording visuals and audio at the school site where we’re working (though we > may do some basic animation as well). > > I’m particularly interested in works by artists of color and queer artists, > but I’m open to other suggestions as well. Thank you in advance for any > recommendations! > > Best, > Kate Lain > > -- > kate lain > katemakesfilms.com <http://katemakesfilms.com/> > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
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