Anna Geyer

2021

Anna Geyer is an experimental filmmaker and writer. A fascination with non-traditional methods of both production and presentation is apparent in her work. Cameraless, non-representational work has been the emphasis of much of her recent efforts, although she frequently describes her work as “experimental with a narrative bent.” Her work also includes live three projector loop sets performed in collaboration with local musicians. These performances utilize the technology of the past and present and include abstract, live action and degraded imagery of the digital age.

Фильмы

Goodbye Pig

Anna Geyer

Goodbye Pig / Goodbye Phil / Goodbye Sweet Things that Once Were. A reminiscence of an unknowable past. An homage to "'pigfill" aka "slug," a reinvented film, an invented manner of preservation. A found footage film constructed almost entirely of decayed/abused fill. The fill—once spliced into 16mm magnetic audio tracks of another film—had been stored in a wet basement. Water damage had caused the two to stick together. I was asked to replace the fill in order to transfer the audio to a digital medium for preservation purposes. I removed and spliced the bits of discarded picture together and projected it in an effort to gain some understanding of the original footage. Later I reprinted it, via the optical printer, fascinated by the bits of picture/past left unobscured by the residual blotches of mag, and in doing so I literally watched its continued demise; its further fall into chaos. (Anna Geyer)

Goodbye Pig

2014

США, мультфильм

Ich Bin Ein Junger Hupfer

Anna Geyer

Two Überavian blacksmiths meet on a lazy spring afternoon—romance ensues. Ray-o-grams, springs, feathers and spring-like metal shavings serve as primary source materials. Tinted, bleached, painted and re-photographed, these materials become a study in color and movement set against a soundtrack of both organic and industrial/machine sound.

Ich Bin Ein Junger Hupfer

2008

Arapadaptor (I Feel So)

Anna Geyer

Arapadaptor (I Feel So) is an abstract film of mostly found sound and cameraless images. Most of the source material was unwittingly supplied by a Chinese herbalist. To produce Arapadaptor Geyer applied a flashlight and laser, a la Man Ray, to the caterpillars, cicadas and seeds of the herbal packages. Much of the original footage was further manipulated - painted, tinted and/or bleached. Finally, the images were rephotographed, slowed, through the use of an optical printer.

Arapadaptor (I Feel So)

2003