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The Emotional Lives of Inanimate Objects: Films by Janie Geiser

Co-presented by PICA's TBA

Sep. 18 - 4:00 pm
Artist-in-Attendance
Guild Theatre
829 SW Park Avenue
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About This Screening

An internationally recognized theatre director/designer, puppeteer, and filmmaker, Janie Geiser's work is known for its detailed evocation of self contained worlds. Shooting on the intimate scale of antique figurines, dollhouses, and paper cutouts, Geiser's films create mysterious noirish worlds of cryptic narratives, nostalgia, and half-remembered dreams. Although the work is frequently drawn from personal narratives, the loose stories rarely give us the details of what is happening; rather, Geiser uses these miniature worlds to evoke strong emotional currents played out through archetypal characters.
And while these worlds that she creates are often blatantly artificial, her images are exquisitely composed—with perfectly layered superimpositions, subtle lighting, and dense spaces. Geiser will introduce the program and present a selection of her work from the past several years including Spiral Vessel, Lost Motion, The Fourth Watch, Ultima Thule, as well as her brand new film Terrace 49.

Program Details

Saturday September 18
  • Spiral Vessel
    2000, 16mm, color, sound, 7 min.
  • The Secret Story
    1996, 16mm, color, sound, 7 min
  • Immer Zu
    1997, 16mm, b&w, sound, 9 min.
  • Lost Motion
    1999, 16mm, color, sound, 11 min.
  • Terrace 49
    2004, 16mm, color, sound, 6 min.
  • Ultima Thule
    2002, 16mm, color, sound, 10 min.
  • The Fourth Watch
    2000, 16mm, color, sound, 11 min.
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