Let Your Light Shine – Films by Jodie Mack

Director in-person!

New Fancy Foils
US 2013, 16mm, color, silent, 12.5 min

Paper sample books discarded and dumpstered by long-gone businesses undergo a series of sequential experiments in pattern, rhythm, color, and text(ure). A call and response of flickering and lingering, this catalog of catalogs remembers a tactile economy.

Undertone Overture
US 2013, 16mm, color, 10.5 min

A study of tie dye swims out to the cosmos and back again.

Dusty Stacks of Mom: The Poster Project
US 2013, live performance with 16mm, color, 41 min

Interweaving the forms of personal filmmaking, abstract animation and the rock opera, this animated musical documentary examines the rise and fall of a nearly-defunct poster and postcard wholesale business; the changing role of physical objects and virtual data in commerce; and the division (or lack of) between abstraction in fine art and psychedelic kitsch. Using alternate lyrics as voice over narration, the piece adopts the form of a popular rock album reinterpreted as a cine-performance.

Glistening Thrills
US 2013, 16mm, color, 8 min

A shiny otherworld of holographic reverie pairs dollar store gift bags and haunting resound, unfolding an effervescent melancholy in three parts. Featuring compositions for bowed vibraphone by Elliot Cole.

Let Your Light Shine
US 2013, 16mm, color & b/w, 3 min

The ultimate photo-kinetic stroboscopic spectacle for spectacles. Requires prismatic glasses which will be provided.