• Music in the Air

  • Traces/Legacy

  • Underlying Persistent Volumes, Part 2

  • Hotel Cartograph



Scott Stark in Person



  • In Person
    Scott Stark

From an improbably epic single-shot journey across the varied designs of a hotel’s carpets; through the shadows and surfaces of an abandoned trainyard, a contemporary bowling alley, and family photos; to mid-twentieth-century Kodachrome parades, Scott Stark traces, tracks, and transforms everyday surfaces with a variety of cinematic tools. “I see each film/video project as a ‘first film’ with its own cinematic language, one that the viewer learns and engages with as the piece unfolds. This language is shaped by the particular mechanics of each medium, in the same way verbal language is shaped by the mechanics of the human mouth. Thus each film charts the possibility of a pre-cinema experience, one that might have evolved had not narrative and commerce been cinema’s prevailing motivational forces” (Scott Stark).

Films in this Screening

Hotel Cartograph

Scott Stark, United States, 1983

FILM DETAILS 
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  • Color
  • 16mm
  • 12 mins
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  • Canyon Cinema

All About the Illusion

Scott Stark, United States, 2006

FILM DETAILS 
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  • Color
  • Digital
  • 10 mins
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  • Scott Stark

Underlying Persistent Volumes

Scott Stark, United States, 2022

FILM DETAILS 
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  • Color
  • Digital
  • 11 mins
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  • Scott Stark

Underlying Persistent Volumes, Part 2

Scott Stark, United States, 2022

FILM DETAILS 
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  • Color
  • Digital
  • 6 mins
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  • Scott Stark
Additional Info
  • With live vocal accompaniment

Tenpin Arpeggio

Scott Stark, United States, 2023

FILM DETAILS 
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  • Color
  • Digital
  • 12 mins
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  • Scott Stark

Traces/Legacy

Scott Stark, United States, 2015

FILM DETAILS 
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  • Color
  • 35mm
  • 9 mins
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  • Canyon Cinema

Music in the Air

Scott Stark, United States, 2023

FILM DETAILS 
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  • Color
  • 2 x 16mm projectors with rotating shutter
  • 15 mins
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  • Scott Stark

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