
Caroline Avery
2021Snow Movies
Caroline Avery
SNOW MOVIES (1983) was shot in the winter landscape of upstate New York and in snowbound Cambridge, Massachusetts. I have broken down the various purviews and scales to two dimensions with pixilation and framing. Phil S. says it is a capsulized version of the history of Western painting (I paraphrase).
Snow Movies
Big Brother
Caroline Avery
BIG BROTHER (1983) is a comic book/collage film. The images are taken from commercials and other commercially released films as well as my own shooting. Sections of frames were cut out and then placed into Super 8 film frames which had been painted upon, a mouth here, a leg there. This film can also be read like a comic strip on the rewinds. The film was blown up to 16mm. Ironically my hope had been to keep the film in Super 8 as a discourse on gauge chauvinism, one of the implications in the title.
Big Brother
Pilgrim's Progress
Caroline Avery
A discourse on marketing through images. The "surface" is an abstract potpourri of polyrhythms, "named" items jumping into recognition here and there. I pulled magazine ink off the page with scotch tape and glued the tape strips onto film leader and rephotographed. It is a tale of coming to terms, of suspended disbeliefs.
Pilgrim's Progress
The Living Rock
Caroline Avery
A statement directed at the limbic mind about secondary forms of communication developed over time to compensate for the cultural denial of primary signals, creating a feed back loop as secondary responds to secondary, leaving the primary, the limbic behind. It is a cautionary tale.
The Living Rock
Cassandra
Caroline Avery
"If a body meet a body, comin' through the rye. If a body kiss a body, make a body cry"-- From an old folk song, "Comin' Through the Rye." This painted film is for the daughter of Troy as it fell to the Greeks and to all girls seeking womanhood by way of tears.
Cassandra
Ready Mades in Hades
Caroline Avery
Photographed in East Sommerville, MA. An empty lot piled with garbage and remnants of the past lives of its nearby residents cut in with the brave laundry of a preset set of inhabitants next door, the children of whom roam through this claustrophobic making their own private sense of it all.
Ready Mades in Hades