Paul Clipson - Layers of Light
How can one translate the experiences offered by Paul Clipson’s films into linear writing? It can’t be impossible, for the films themselves proceed in such a direction: each one has a beginning, a middle and an end. Yet they do not work in that way exclusively—there is more at stake here than simple causality.

The elegantly ravishing super 8 films of Paul Clipson are lyrical explorations of light and movement. His images, mostly edited in-camera, reveal the rhythms, energy and sensuality of the everyday that we often fail to see. The influence of experimental filmmakers such as Stan Brakhage, Marie Menken, Bruce Conner and Bruce Baillie is palpable in his multi-layered studies, as well as that of the many sound artists and musicians with whom he has collaborated over the years, such as Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Gregg Kowalsky and William Fowler Collins.

7 x DVD5 | NTSC | ~500 mins | 18.4 Gb + 3% rec
Language: none
Subtitles: none
Genre: Experimental


Celluloid Sketches & Watercolor Movies disc 1:
-- Bump Past Cut Up Through Windows (2004, 4.5 min, music by Tarentel)
-- Big Black Square (2004, 6 min, music by Tarentel)
-- Earthlight (2006, 5.5 min, music by Tarentel)
-- Over Water (2006, 7 min, music by Tarentel)
-- Watercolor Night Montage No. 7 (2006, 9 min, music by Tarentel)
-- The Lights and Perfections (2006, 10 min, music by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma)

Celluloid Sketches & Watercolor Movies disc 2:
-- Echo Park (2007, 9 min, music by Tarentel)
-- Passageways (2007, 28 min, music by Tarentel)
-- Constellations (2006, 7 min, music by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma)

-- Compound Eyes Nos. 1 (2011, 27 min, music by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma)

16mm films by Paul Clipson:
-- Light Year (2013, 10 min, music by Tashi Wada)
-- Love After Love (2014, 5 min, music by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma)
-- The Liquid Casket / Wilderness of Mirrors (2014, 9.5 min, music by Lawrence English)
-- Trajections (2014, 14 min, music by Tashi Wada)
-- Made of Air (2014, 11 min, music by Grouper)
-- Disporting with a Shadow (2015, 4 min, music by Alex Cobb)

Films by Paul Clipson:
-- Chorus (2009, 7 min, music by Gregg Kowalsky)
-- Light from the Mesa (2010, 7 min, music by Barn Owl)
-- Union (2010, 15 min, music by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma)
-- Echo Park (2007, 9 min, music by Tarentel)
-- Tuolumne (2007, 18 min, music by Tarentel)
-- Over Water (2006, 7 min, music by Tarentel)

Super 8mm films by Paul Clipson:
-- Sphinx On The Seine (2008, 9 min, music by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma)
-- Difficult Loves (2013, 4 min, music by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma)
-- Void Redux (2013, 7 min, music by Barn Owl)
-- Another Void (2012, 10 min, music by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma)
-- Bright Mirror (2013, 9 min, music by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma)
-- Other States (2013, 8 min, music by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma)

Recent films by Paul Clipson:
-- Speaking Corpse (2012, 7.5 min, music by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma)
-- Absteigend (2012, 7.5 min, music by Evan Caminiti)
-- Landscape Dissolves (2012, 6 min, music by Alex Cobb)
-- Void Redux (2013, 7 min, music by Barn Owl)
-- Origin (2012, 9 min, music by Che Chen)
-- Another Void (2012, 10 min, music by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma)

South Pacific:
-- The Lights and Perfections (2006, 10 min, music by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma)
-- Constellations (2006, 7 min, music by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma)

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