http://www.shonamasarin.com/work daily 1.0 2020-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5404e21de4b0e522f5dea34b/1557596162999-DSCOA7FO5RZUS0JJUOHD/5014_MASARIN_R16MM_ACTION_RAW.00_02_16_00.Still007-web.jpg Films - RUINS 2018, 3:30 min., 16mm, silent Ruins imagines a landscape where the past and the present have been expunged, reduced to shadows. Here, in this silent and vacant future, geometric forms and planes of light melt into one another before disappearing into the film grain, lending only glimpses of a whole. A black rectangle floats in space, simultaneously a monolith and a portal. Unlike the shy shapes that open the film, the rectangle asserts itself, repeatedly making its presence known. Like the surface of a perfectly calm ocean, its pitch-black face disturbs us with all that is unknown hidden in its depth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5404e21de4b0e522f5dea34b/1410404824834-95HL5OOM9RJL7SJLDAOU/SomeVelvetMorning_04.jpg Films - SOME VELVET MORNING 2012, 2min., 16mm film. Sound by Andrew Hurst. Inheriting the name of a song by Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra, this film takes inspiration from the dark pop song, envisioning the obscure lyrics as a visual incantation of sorts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5404e21de4b0e522f5dea34b/1409609177326-BO64CUFC8VHETZEAL8CM/behind_blue02.jpg Films - BEHIND MY MOUTH, BENEATH MY LIPS, ON MY EYES 2010, 4.5mins, video, silent. A silent love song wherein light, rhythm, and pace attempt to portray feelings in their ripest pre-logical form. The title of the film is taken from a poem by Kirby Doyle. Made with a light box and color separation transparencies. I worked with the materials intuitively, hoping that the meaning would make itself known to me in the process. The resulting images parallel my personal feelings at the time—towards the materials, and towards a personal relationship that was developing as I progressively worked on the film. The trace of discovery is left as a document for myself, and the viewer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5404e21de4b0e522f5dea34b/1410405947133-9QJ6TYZTOY26ULHJ3SZS/Ghost_line_Masarin_Olinghouse_still01.jpg Films - GHOST LINE 2013, 15 min., 16mm. Directed by Shona Masarin & Cori Olinghouse. Sound by Andrew Hurst. This is a trail through time forgotten—a shape-shifting, flickering portrait of histories overlooked and re-written; a reanimation—a moving body slipping in and out of eras that are not its own, reckoning with its own mortality and the porousness of memory; a conjuring--a spell written in silent movie intertitles, vaudevillian antics, and the physicality of memory. A ghost line. An experimental dance film by filmmaker Shona Masarin and choreographer/performer Cori Olinghouse, Ghost line brings together the absurdist impulses of Dada and Surrealism with the kinetics of vaudeville, eccentric dance, and silent film to ask: how do we capture and reimagine—in a parlous age of oversaturation—the ephemeral power of the legacies that haunt us? Using the mechanics of film and dance to interrogate rhythm, comedic timing, character, and disappearance, Ghost Line is a visual elegy, an ode to the fragility of the material body and the vanishing of recollection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5404e21de4b0e522f5dea34b/1410404440125-FJCZE3P58KBCO4A7SZOP/Feedback+2-2011.png Films - FEEDBACK Dual 16mm film projection created for "In the Use of Others for the Change: A Ballet in three movements" - Produced by Jason Andrew + Norte Maar, choreography by Julia K. Gleich. Performed at Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn NY. April 14, 15, 16 - 2011. See vimeo.com/27177129 for documentation of performance. Sound by Andrew Hurst. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5404e21de4b0e522f5dea34b/1410400850820-68ZKUWZMNGISPR67MO89/some_chosen_still.jpg Films https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5404e21de4b0e522f5dea34b/1410403376830-TL5YGB0BV0LO1T4ES2K2/s8collage1.jpg Films - DOCUMENTS OF DISCOVERY 2010, 5mins, Super 8mm, sound. A zeppelin comes in while the crowd watches under the bridge. A visit to the zoo and a street parade. Coats of ink reveal and conceal an objective hand as I make my mark on someone else’s forgotten memories. They are now mine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5404e21de4b0e522f5dea34b/1411173432859-MKO748C3KT8E4Y1BSZ21/SMasarin_Int_Mach_still.jpg Films - INTIMATE MACHINE 2010, variable duration, Super 8mm multi-projector installation. Two looping film projectors, side-by-side, cycle through two film-strips that are cut to different lengths. The beginning and end of each loop are lost in all the various narrative and compositional possibilities imposed by the slip-stream of images and sounds that push, touch, and collide – like endless variations of a motif. The machine is able to manufacture an infinite amount of imaginary anxieties, dreams, and stories through the repetition and juxtaposition of images that act as hieroglyphs. 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