Still Life with Cows
Two women together out west. One can't walk. Create a story.
Karen Yasinsky
Director
Also Directed by Karen Yasinsky
An internalized collage film which started with the found vacation film someone gave to me many years ago. The script I recorded for the film was resistant but the photographs of Man Ray, Paul Outerbridge and the soundtracks from Bruce Lee films attached themselves. Everyone wants to touch someone. (KY)
A woman's Wizard of Oz-inspired surreal fantasy continues.
A collage film slipping between narrative starts of images and sounds
The film originated with thoughts on senseless violence, cultural observation and hypnotism. Many of the images are repurposed, related but unhinged from their original context
This animation takes as a starting point the character of Marie in Au Hasard Balthazar by Robert Bresson.
The artist breathes life into handmade dolls as she recreates a scene from Vigo’s L'Atalante.
Boys is made with traditional stop motion puppet animation and flash animation. After rough play, two boys fall back into their beanbag chairs to be set upon by bugs. They enjoy this.
Part 2 of No Place Like Home
Images and sounds appear as suggestions and are revisited; clues dispersed. Debby waits in a room not really alone.
From an animated spider's web to a bouncing ball in space, and from a Tarkovski image of a Russian horse to a close-up of Victoria Legrand, frontwoman of an American dream-pop band, Yasinsky excels in provoking simple, yet mysterious connections between live action and animation, forging a special realm between past and present.
