Regarding Penelope’s Wake

A two-hour film consisting of heavily edited frame by frame collage/montage/hand painted/ripped/cut/etched found footage culled from numerous sources, including a 1970’s public speaking instructional film, Themes From The Odyssey, 8mm stag films, Self Protection For Women, a biography of Vincent Van Gogh, ethnographic documentaries, science films, home movies, The Frog Prince, a film about underwater sound, and many other assorted educational films.
Through the use of juxtaposition of images (which may by nature become narrative and/or symbolic), rapid movement of form and texture, and repetition of motifs, an intricate visual structure is created which allows the viewers to experience and create their own unique readings. The film is silent, which allows one to follow the rhythm of the edits and movements of form and color within the frame without audio distraction against the complex visual structure.
Thus assembled, Regarding Penelope’s Wake weaves between the multiple layers of experimental narratives and themes, structural abstractions and patterns of cut celluloid, intertwining rhythms of form, texture and light, visual metaphors, and the interactions between the elements. Form becomes amorphous as time is spun within the individual viewer’s attentions.