This evening of recent films by San Francisco-based Paul Clipson will present a variety of short works on Super 8mm, made in collaboration with musicians and sound artists. The program will include THE CRYSTAL TEXT (2012) with Young Moon (Trevor Montgomery), DIFFICULT LOVES (2013) with Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, ABSTEIGEND (2012) with Painted Caves (Evan Caminiti), ORIGIN (2012) with Che Chen, LANDSCAPE DISSOLVES (2012) with Alex Cobb, VOID REDUX (2013) with Barn Owl, and SPEAKING CORPSE (2012) with Jefre Cantu-Ledesma. The event will showcase a live sound/film performance by Clipson and Marielle Jakobsons.
Sound artist and violinist creates electro-acoustic compositions of evocative, pulsing drones. She is based in Oakland, California where she received an MFA in Electronic Music from Mills College and currently teaches audio recording. She has published her recordings on Digitalis, Mexican Summer, Root Strata, Students of Decay & Important Records, among others, and has toured across the Americas & Europe. A classically-trained musician and sound designer by trade, she collaborates extensively in the experimental arts. Together with Gregg Kowalsky, she formed the band Date Palms and with Agnes Szelag Myrmyr. “Glass Canyon” is her second solo album of analog synthesizers and violin, was released by Students of Decay in Summer 2012 and a new Date Palms is being released in June, 2013. See www.darwinsbitch.com
Paul Clipson collaborates with sound artists and musicians on films, live performances, and installations. Aiming to bring to light subconscious visual preoccupations that reveal themselves while working in a stream of consciousness manner, his films combine densely layered, in-camera edited studies of figurative and abstract environments, in a process that encourages unplanned-for results. His films and collaborative performances have been presented at many festivals, galleries and venues around the world, but most often at ATA. http://withinmirrors.org
