Greta Snider

Flight

Greta Snider

My father's photographic legacy, compiled and transformed into light. His family photographs, his hobbyist pictures of trains and roses, his airplanes and his obsession with birds circling...these images are imprinted onto the film, like a fingerprint or trace. The film is hand-processed and hand-exposed without a camera.

No-Zone

Greta Snider

No-Zone is a five part essay, surrounding the idea of millennial anxiety. An urban forager finds medicine under freeways, a freight hopper lists the contents of his backpack, and a recycler of atomic surplus displays some of his favorite failed technologies.

Portland

Greta Snider

Greta Snider

Three friends, including the filmmaker, rendez-vous in Portland by hitchhiking or train-hopping from different cities. After a week of arguments, soup kitchens, brushes with the law, and bad weather, each leaves with a different memory of the trip.

Our Gay Brothers

Greta Snider

This collage of found film footage, assembles porn movie, children's instructional film, sports coverage, and '50s Hollywood musicals to construct an investigation of gay men's differing attitudes towards the female body.

Prayer for the Torture Memos

Greta Snider

An imaginary dialogue between words and bodies, based on the set of documents that has come to be known as "the torture memos."

Blood Story

Greta Snider

Blood Story is a simultaneous progression of three divergent tales: a soundtrack of eavesdropped "girl talk", a subtitled story of a troublesome spot, and a series of images that fluidly peruse the two. The pictures articulate the space between one threatening, and one intimate, experience of the same symbolic matter.

Mute

Greta Snider

MUTE is an irresolute web of shifting power positions. It is a malevolent bed-time story whose focal character, while deviating herself from the grip of the narration, firmly maintains her ambivalence towards her state of menace. Included is subtitled information, which is the running contrapuntal perspective of the "other," the mute. This commentary blossoms out in the long silent sections, from a discussion of her own involuntary objectification to her problematic "fascination" with a foreign culture. "MUTE, Greta's masterpiece, uses layers of allegory and true-life crime story to reveal the miscommunication at the heart of patriarchal eroticism." - Ann Powers, SF Weekly

The Magic of Radio

Greta Snider

A wild and beautiful excursion into the world of pirate and amateur radio, including interviews with the bicycle pirate, Free Radio Austin, and Robert K6QXY; plus mystery sounds from space!

Futility

Greta Snider

Futility is a two part story, introduced by a series mishaps from archival films about tools. The body of the film illustrates the title; in the tale of a woman's attempt to schedule an abortion, and a moribund love letter. The images resist illustration or narrative, constituting a kind of peripheral vision.

A Small Place

Greta Snider

A meditation on the experience of solitary confinement, A Small Place originates as a 35mm "scroll" of sorts and explores the gestural quality of language and script, of silence, and of time.

Rendition

Greta Snider

An exploration lamenting the officially sanctioned torture techniques of sensory deprivation and transportation.

Urine Man

Greta Snider

The Urine Man, a longtime neighbor, agreed to be interviewed but with a great many stipulations. One of these was that he would only discuss his philosophical platform, and would not answer any questions. Nor were we to turn the camera on or off without permission. It became an enormous power struggle. Thus, this eloquent rant of the Urine Man's unique cosmology.

Quarry Movie

Greta Snider

This movie is an attempt to document a place; not only its image as lensed, but its weather, its soil, and its toxins. The organisms in the water and the soil have made their marks on it; even the leached metals in this exhausted quarry pit's waters can be seen in the film.

Hard Core Home Movie

Greta Snider

HARD-CORE is a frank and irreverent documentary that asks the question, "what is hard-core?" Seedy, grainy, and fast-paced, this is a nostalgic look at an ephemeral moment in the history of a subculture: punk rock in San Francisco in the late eighties. Everyone from fucked-up teenagers to elderly Mexican tourists attempts to explain the allure and mystique of the scene. Filmed at SF's historical petting-zoo/theater/punk rock emporium The Farm.