Saturday, May 3, 2008 @ 5:30 PM
Films of Stephanie Barber
Presented by PDX Fest and Cinema Project
Artist-in-attendance
Total Power: Films and Videos by Stephanie Barber
Stephanie Barber joins us from Baltimore to present a selection of her meticulously crafted, odd and imaginative films and videos. Tonight’s program features a number of Barber’s 16mm films, including total power dead dead dead, which the filmmaker describes as “thinking of war and impressionism, death and love… is again at war and wonders at your sincerity. ” In catalog live actors stand silent, reenacting still photos Barber has found. dogs features two papier-machè dogs contemplating the universe and their existence, playing with the notion of innocent wonder vs. academic pretentiousness. shipfilm - which Barber calls “the most heartbreaking film I have made” - was included in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s American Century: Part II 1950-2000. Barber will also be presenting her two latest video works. dwarfs the sea involves small biographies and musing generalizations about men’s relations to each other and their lives. In a tiger and an island, deer, wolf, lecturer, woodcut, evolution and Elvis are interwoven with shots of an audience whose Virgil-like role leads the viewer to respond to the disparate images as simply ‘spectacle’.flower, the boy, the librarian
Stephanie Barber
1996, 16mm, color/b&w, sound, 6 min.
catalog
Stephanie Barber
2005 , 16 mm, color, sound, 11 min.
total power, dead dead dead
Stephanie Barber
2005 , 16mm, color, sound, 3 min.
dwarfs the sea
Stephanie Barber
2007, video, b&w, sound, 7 min.
a tiger and an island
Stephanie Barber
2007, video, color, sound , 6 min.
dogs
Stephanie Barber
2000 ,16mm, color, sound , 15 min.
hey invented machines
Stephanie Barber
1997 , 16mm, color, sound , 7 min.
letters, notes
Stephanie Barber
1997, 16mm, color, silent, 6 min.
shipfilm
Stephanie Barber
1998, 16mm, b&w, silent, 3 min.
a little present (for my friend columbus the explorer)
Stephanie Barber
1997, 16mm, color, sound, 3 min.
metronome
Stephanie Barber
1998, 16mm, color, sound, 10 min.
About Stephanie Barber
Beginning with her studies at Binghamton under filmmaker Larry Gottheim, Barber has gone on to complete over thirty original works, mostly on 16mm, that successfully combine elements of formalism, tragedy and humor. Her work has been featured in the New York Film Festival’s Views From the Avant-Garde, the Museum of Modern Art, and Anthology Film Archives, to name a few. In addition to filmmaking, Barber is also a published poet and musician.