October
28, Wednesday, 8:00PM, 2009
Director's Eye: Nancy Andrews (in person)
LOCATION:
Mass College of Art Film Society, Massachusetts
College of Art Film Department,
Screening Room 1, 621 Huntington Ave., Boston,
MA, 02115
Suggested donation: $4
On
A Phantom Limb (2009, 35 mins)
“The monster did not choose this for her
self, to be an amalgam for alchemy.”
This short, avant-garde film features a cyborg
heroine who is a metaphor for the postmodern
condition--fragmented, reconstructed, hybrid,
virtual, part history/part future. The film
narrative blends archival documentary footage,
animation, and original 16mm live-action footage
with a rich musical score and sound collage
to tell the story of a woman/bird creature.
“On a Phantom Limb”sometimes whimsically
and sometimes disturbingly conveys the human
encounter with mortality.
The
Haunted Camera (16mm film, B&W,
30 minutes, 2006, written, directed, cinematography,
editing, puppets and animation by Nancy Andrews,
music by John Cooper) This is the final installment
in the Ima Plume trilogy. An homage to film
noir, it explores Ima Plume’s investigation
of her own death. Ima, Public Illustrator, grapples
with trying to express things that might not
be seen or drawn including: spirits, electronic
voice phenomena and studies of animal locomotion.
The film combines chalk and drawn animation,
puppetry and live action. It is both fiction
and documentary. Inspiration for the content
and style is taken from pioneers of film, vaudeville,
photography and spiritualism.
Nancy
Evelyn Andrews
lives in Seal Harbor, Maine, where she makes
films and music. Her work explores questions
like: What is our place in the universe? What
do we really know? How do we try to grasp the
past, or the future? How can humans interface
with the natural world at this juncture in history?
She works in a hybrid form combining storytelling,
documentary, puppetry, animation, and vaudeville.
Her characters and stories are synthesized from
various sources, including history and autobiographical
material. Her work has been presented by the
Museum of Modern Art, Pacific Film Archive,
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Jerusalem Film Festival,
Flaherty Seminar,Nova, Cinema Bioscoop, Brussels,
Belgium, and Taiwan International Animation
Festival, among others; and is in the film collections
of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
and the Museum of Modern Art. She has been the
recipient of grants and fellowships from the
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, LEF
New England Moving Image Fund, Illinois State
Arts Council, The Franklin Furnace Fund for
Performance Art (supported by the Jerome Foundation
and New York State Council on the Arts), and
National Endowment for the Arts. She studied
at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
and received a Master of Fine Arts in 1995,
and her undergraduate studies were at the Maryland
Institute, College of Art, BFA, 1983. Nancy
is currently on faculty at the College of the
Atlantic where she teaches performance art,
video making and film history.
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