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The Grand Bizarre
The Grand Bizarre Details
- Year of Production: 2018
- Length: 60 minutes
- Color: Color
- Screening Format: 35mm
About the Film
Screening on 35mm! Filmmaker Jodie Mack will attend in person for Q&A with local filmmaker and Harvard film/video and animation faculty member Ruth Lingford.
A postcard from an imploded society. Bringing mundane objects to life to interpret place through materials, The Grand Bizarre transcribes an experience of pattern, labor, and alien[-]nation[s]. A pattern parade in pop music pairs figure and landscape to trip through the topologies of codification. Following components, systems, and samples in a collage of textiles, tourism, language, and music, the film investigates recurring motifs and how their metamorphoses function within a global economy.
“In giving primacy to things over people, The Grand Bizarre mounts a radical, object-oriented ethnography, one that encapsulates our present, capitalist epoch from within, showcasing the life of the mind by presenting the world to us all at once.” – Cinema Scope
World Premiere at the Locarno Film Festival. Official Selection of the Toronto International Film Festival and the New York Film Festival.
About the Filmmakers
Jodie Mack Director
Jodie Mack is an experimental animator who received her MFA in film, video, and new media from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007. Combining the formal techniques and structures of abstract/absolute animation with those of cinematic genres, her handmade films use collage to explore the relationship between graphic cinema and storytelling, […] Read More
Hoarders Without Borders 1.0
Hoarders Without Borders 1.0 Details
- Year of Production: 2018
- Length: 6 minutes
- Color: Color
- Screening Format: 16mm
- Language: Silent
About the Film
Prior to the feature screening, The DocYard is excited to present two of Jodie Mack’s recent short films on 16mm!
Featuring crystallized magic markers and the kidney stone of a horse, the generously-curated mineral collection of Mary Johnson comes to life in a manual labor of love for the process of archival procedure.
About the Filmmakers
Jodie Mack Director
Jodie Mack is an experimental animator who received her MFA in film, video, and new media from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007. Combining the formal techniques and structures of abstract/absolute animation with those of cinematic genres, her handmade films use collage to explore the relationship between graphic cinema and storytelling, […] Read More
Wasteland No. 1: Ardent, Verdant
Wasteland No. 1: Ardent, Verdant Details
- Year of Production: 2017
- Length: 3 minutes
- Color: Color
- Screening Format: 16mm
- Language: Silent
About the Film
About the Filmmakers
Jodie Mack Director
Jodie Mack is an experimental animator who received her MFA in film, video, and new media from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007. Combining the formal techniques and structures of abstract/absolute animation with those of cinematic genres, her handmade films use collage to explore the relationship between graphic cinema and storytelling, […] Read More
