Friday, April 1, 2005

Spotlight on Local Filmmakers: Marianne Magne

Past Event at the  Central Art Center

04-01-05


Marianne Magne has been exhibiting her work in galleries in Europe and the United States for anumber of years. Her video work, here represented by pieces from 2002 and 2003, will be shown on Friday April 1st at 8:00pm.
Marianne will be presenting several short (1 to 5 minute) experimental works along with "The Rhetorical Ass," a 25-minute work and will take questions from the audience afterwords.
 



Cramps on Milk
TRT: 01:21, 2002 

Credits: Concept, editing + sound and animations: Marianne Magne

Camera: Ann Perich

Music: From :“Surfin’bird”, The Cramps

Production: bare Skull production 

Synopsis: From LA to eternity [a cosmic trip]

TRT: 02:00


PSYCHOPOMP

TRT: 8:48 mn, 2003

Credits: Filmmaker: Marianne Magne

Cinematographers: Violette Villard, Steven Yeager, Marianne Magne

Music: Ann Perich, Daniel Day, Malcolm Brooker.

Editor + Sound and Animations: M.Magne

Actors: S.Yeager, M. Magne

Synopsis : Psychopomp : [ Greek mythology:The guide that leads souls on their journey to the underworld ]

The film is a dream-like sequence that fluctuates between Eros and Thanatos.

A sensual-political experiment, that follows the poetic non-linear logic of the brain in REM.

 

THE RHETORICAL ASS

[l’âne Rhétorique]

TRT: 25:00, 2003

Languages: English [french subtitles]

Credits/crew:

Filmmaker, writer: Marianne Magne

Cinematographers: Alfonso Gordillo, Marianne Magne, Steven Yeager,

Music: Ann Perich, Daniel Day, Malcolm Brooker.

Image and sound editor + Animations: Marianne Magne

Cast: Emmanuel Atalaphe, Violette Villard, Marianne Magne

Dresses creation: Swinda Reichelt

Bare Skull production

Synopsis : The Rhetorical Ass [12 Steps to Enlightenment ] is a sophist declension on love, hairless beasts and hairy creatures.

Past Screening: “Synapse” 2004 Venice, CA


OUT OF NOWHERE [The Remix]

TRT: 08:45, 2004

Credits: Filmmakers: Marianne Magne + Violette Villard

Music: Ann Perich, Daniel Day

French prose : Violette Villard

Editor + Sound and Animations: Marianne.Magne

Performers/specimens: osseus labyrint [Hannah Sim + Mark Steger]

Cinematographer for original “Nowhere” 2001: Matt Jones

Productions: bare skull [LA]  and So What productions[Paris]

Synopsis : Mutating specimens on French prose