http://cargo.jenniferproctor.com Jennifer Proctor Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:07:41 +0000 http://cargo.jenniferproctor.com en http://cargo.jenniferproctor.com/A-Movie-by-Jen-Proctor http://cargo.jenniferproctor.com/following/cargo.jenniferproctor.com/A-Movie-by-Jen-Proctor Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:07:41 +0000 Jennifer Proctor 525311 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/18691/525311/AMovieStill.png" border="0" width="600" height="399" width_o="600" height_o="399" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/18691/525311/AMovieStill_o.png" align="left" /> (2010, 12:00, digital video/found footage) A loving remake of Bruce Conner’s seminal 1958 found footage film A Movie using appropriated material from YouTube and LiveLeak. As a remake, the video provides a parallel narrative that explores the changes in historical and visual icons from 1958 to 2010 – and those images that remain surprisingly, and delightfully, the same. The work also comments on the pervasiveness of footage available for appropriation in an online world, and the way disparate threads in the YouTube and LiveLeak databases can be assembled to create “a movie.” Not currently available to view online. Screenings: Festival of (In)Appropriation, L.A. Filmforum, Los Angeles, CA, September 2010 Dallas VideoFest, Dallas, TX, September 2010 Antimatter Film Festival, Victoria, BC, Canada, October 2010 Oxford Film Festival, Oxford, MS, February 2011 Big Muddy Film Festival, Carbondale, IL, February 2011 Fargo Film Festival, Fargo, ND, March 2011 Media City Film Festival, Windsor, Ontario, May 2011 Migrating Forms Film Festival, New York, NY, May 2011 Another Experiment by Women Festival, New York, NY, May 2011 University Film and Video Association conference, Boston, MA, August 2011 Cornell Cinema, Ithaca, NY, October 2011 Society of Cinema and Media Studies conference, Boston, MA, March 2012 AVE/Small Project Screening, Tramso, Norway, March 2012 http://cargo.jenniferproctor.com/Smackem-Yackem http://cargo.jenniferproctor.com/following/cargo.jenniferproctor.com/Smackem-Yackem Mon, 04 Jan 2010 02:23:49 +0000 Jennifer Proctor 208471 Created with Aaron Valdez for a Video Race hosted by Iowa City Microcinema, 2006. http://cargo.jenniferproctor.com/Pere-Marquette http://cargo.jenniferproctor.com/following/cargo.jenniferproctor.com/Pere-Marquette Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:53:32 +0000 Jennifer Proctor 208436 A couple years ago I took Amtrak’s Pere Marquette from Grand Rapids to Chicago, then hopped on the Lincoln Service to St. Louis to attend my good friend Andrew’s lovely wedding and, importantly, to visit the St. Louis Zoo. Despite a breakdown involving our air brakes getting punctured on the way home, I’ll still take a train over a plane pretty much any day, even if it involves ten more hours of traveling. You get to look out a big window the whole way. The sound was recorded directly in the Amtrak terminal at Chicago’s Union Station. It’s raw and unmixed. I could sit and listen for hours. And I did. http://cargo.jenniferproctor.com/Evening-lights http://cargo.jenniferproctor.com/following/cargo.jenniferproctor.com/Evening-lights Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:50:41 +0000 Jennifer Proctor 208431 Created for Videoblogging Week 2007. http://cargo.jenniferproctor.com/Flow http://cargo.jenniferproctor.com/following/cargo.jenniferproctor.com/Flow Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:48:25 +0000 Jennifer Proctor 208421 A slow-moving, abstract portrait of my sister as yogini. Much like my legs in yoga, this video takes its time to unfold. Anna is a longtime dancer and student of yoga, and the grace of her body movements has caught the eye of many filmmakers and their cameras. http://cargo.jenniferproctor.com/Self-portrait-in-rotoscope http://cargo.jenniferproctor.com/following/cargo.jenniferproctor.com/Self-portrait-in-rotoscope Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:43:44 +0000 Jennifer Proctor 208418 http://cargo.jenniferproctor.com/Lost-in-Light http://cargo.jenniferproctor.com/following/cargo.jenniferproctor.com/Lost-in-Light Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:14:54 +0000 Jennifer Proctor 208382 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/18691/208382/front.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="111" width_o="760" height_o="126" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/18691/208382/front_o.jpg" align="left" /> (2007 - 2008) Lost in Light was a videoblog about small gauge filmmaking featuring weekly posts of home movies and creative work by film artists. The project was devoted to preserving the home movie historical record before these films fade from memory – and decay to the point of unintelligibility. Lost in Light’s mission was predicated on the notion that home movies contribute a unique perspective to the visual historical record by capturing everyday, quotidian rituals – birthday parties, family vacations, Christmas mornings – in intimate, personal detail and through the vivid medium of the moving image. From January 2007 – August 2008, the project sustained itself by offering free, high quality home movie transfers to anyone who inquired, in exchange for allowing us to post excerpts of the movies on the website. Contributors could also choose to make their movies available for creative use by posting the complete films to the Internet Archive, a massive, permanent digital library, under an open, Creative Commons copyright license. The goal with this latter effort was to harness the unique collaborative possibilities of the Internet to make these historical films available to artists, scholars, and educators for additional uses. http://cargo.jenniferproctor.com/24-Hours-24-Artists http://cargo.jenniferproctor.com/following/cargo.jenniferproctor.com/24-Hours-24-Artists Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:54:26 +0000 Jennifer Proctor 208346 Archive from my one-hour portion of the 24 Hours, 24 Artists project (2008). Film screenings and an interactive presentation on handmade filmmaking. http://cargo.jenniferproctor.com/Weird-science http://cargo.jenniferproctor.com/following/cargo.jenniferproctor.com/Weird-science Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:13:09 +0000 Jennifer Proctor 208337 Handprocessing 16mm film. A document. http://cargo.jenniferproctor.com/Lonely-balloon http://cargo.jenniferproctor.com/following/cargo.jenniferproctor.com/Lonely-balloon Sun, 03 Jan 2010 23:57:03 +0000 Jennifer Proctor 208327 An autumn moment.