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 and currently teaches animation at Dartmouth College. 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, the tension between form and meaning. Musical documentary or stroboscopic archive: her films study domestic and recycled materials to illuminate the elements shared between fine-art abstraction and mass-produced graphic design. Questioning the role of decoration in daily life, the works unleash the kinetic energy of overlooked and wasted objects.
Mack's 16mm films have screened at a variety of venues including the Images Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Rotterdam Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, and Views From the Avant Garde at the New York Film Festival. She has presented solo programs of her work at venues such as the Anthology Film Archives, Los Angeles Filmforum, and the Northwest Film Forum. She has also worked as a curator and administrator with Dartmouth's EYEWASH: Experimental Films and Videos, Florida Experimental Film and Video Festival, Portland Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, Eye and Ear Clinic, Chicago Underground Film Festival, and The Nightingale. She was a featured artist at the 2011 Flaherty Seminar, and she’s the 2013
WASTELAND NO. 3 : MOONS, SONS
2021 / 16mm / color / silent / single screen / 5' 00 / 37 € distribution: Digital file on server |
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WASTELAND NO. 2: HARDY, HEARTY
2019 / color / silent / single screen / 6' 39 / 42 € distribution: Digital file on server |
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WASTELAND NO. 1: ARDENT, VERDANT
2017 / color / silent / single screen / 4' 18 / 34 € distribution: Digital file on server |
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BLANKET STATEMENT #1: HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS
2012 / 16mm / color / sound / single screen / 3' 00 / 22 € distribution: 16mm |
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PERSIAN PICKLES
2012 / 16mm / color / sound / single screen / 2' 50 / 22 € distribution: 16mm |
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POINT DE GAZE
2012 / 16mm / color / silent / single screen / 4' 46 / 22 € distribution: 16mm |
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POSTHASTE PERENNIAL PATTERN
2010 / 16mm / color / sound / single screen / 3' 38 / 22 € distribution: 16mm |
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UNSUBSCRIBE #1: SPECIAL OFFER INSIDE
2010 / 16mm / color / sound / single screen / 4' 18 / 22 € distribution: 16mm |
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UNSUBSCRIBE #3: GLITCH ENVY
2010 / 16mm / color / sound / single screen / 5' 37 / 22 € distribution: 16mm |