An experimental film essay about a found (stolen?) photograph, a hurricane, and film’s inherent ability to animate and re-animate still, dead, and inanimate beings, images, and objects. The film is created using an ink-jet direct-on-film technique where the digital frame is printed directly onto onto recycled 16mm celluloid.
Director Biography – Masha Vlasova
I am an experimental and documentary filmmaker. I was born in Russia and immigrated to the U.S. as a pre-teen. I have exhibited and screened my films at Smack Mellon, Anthology Archives, Abrons Arts Center, the Border Project Gallery in New York City, Vox Populi in Philadelphia, and Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University. I have been a recipient of an Alice Kimball Fellowship, a JUNCTURE Art and Human Rights Fellowship, a Research Fellowship at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, and a Fulbright Fellowship in Filmmaking. I teach production to college students.
