Scott Stark’s Videos

Shape Shift (studio demo)

from Scott Stark / Added 14 years ago 3,485 180 3

(2004, miniDV, color/sound, 10 mins., 2 min. excerpt) A simple technique with two opposing cameras reveals a body transposed upon itself, confounding the limits of its own physical space.. "Scott…

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Degrees of Limitation (1982)

from Scott Stark / Added 8 years ago 1,639 52 2

A silent film made completely in about 15 minutes on a partly cloudy day in San Francisco in 1982. With the 16mm Bolex camera mounted on a tripod, I wound the motor a single crank and ran as far as…

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The Realist (parts 1 and 2)

from Scott Stark / Added 11 years ago 1,320 25 0

An excerpt from The Realist (2013, Scott Stark, HD video, 36 mins.). The Realist is an experimental and highly abstracted melodrama, a "doomed love story" storyboarded with flickering still…

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Traces

from Scott Stark / Added 14 years ago 868 22 3

Worldly surfaces, shifting shadows and overlooked patterns: a series of short 35mm films generated from digital still images and printed onto movie film. The top and bottom half of each image alternate…

The Realist (preview)

from Scott Stark / Added 12 years ago 867 14 0

preview created for the Toronto International Film Festival, taking place in September 2013.

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Animal 2.99

from Scott Stark / Added 15 years ago 735 9 0

In contemporary society, the human instinct for hunting, gathering and foraging has been channeled into the impulse to shop. Humans explore the modern wilderness of the supermarket in search of nourishment…

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Right

from Scott Stark / Added 17 years ago 570 7 0

A playful study of one of the U.S.A.'s most ubiquitous symbols, and an attempt to re-invent it as a thing of problematic beauty. Overlayed on top of the imagery are snippets of an email exchange…

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More Than Meets the Eye: Remaking Jane Fonda

from Scott Stark / Added 12 years ago 557 12 0

http://scottstark.com/janefonda.html 2001/2006, Hi-8mm tape, color/sound, 20mins. In the early 1980s, the celebrity actress/activist Jane Fonda, who was by then known for her sharp anti-war…

N-Cased

from Scott Stark / Added 14 years ago 498 4 1

A two-channel digital video installation at the former Seaholm Power Plant in Austin, Texas; part of the 2011 Fusebox Festival. The two images were projected onto two concrete supports in the large…

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Cat Dance Super-8

from Scott Stark / Added 13 years ago 473 13 1

A super-8 film from 1991 with my then-two cats, Mr. Earl and Leona.

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To Love or To Die

from Scott Stark / Added 11 years ago 451 18 0

2003, miniDV, color/sound, 5 mins Made with two parallel cameras, To Love or To Die is a brief binocular odyssey through a suburban wonderland of desire and fulfillment. Reviews "Stark wanders…

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Film on Fog

from Scott Stark / Added 11 years ago 402 13 0

Excerpts from "Film on Fog," an outdoor interactive installation near the river in Austin, Texas, with collaborator Barna Kantor. Audience members were invited to bring rolls of 16mm film…

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