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Caryn Cline (United States)

Originally from the Missouri Ozarks, Caryn Cline is a filmmaker and teacher who has been making films and videos for 20 years. She works with found footage, she shoots 16mm film on a hand-cranked Bolex camera, and she also creates handmade direct animation “botanicollage” films. “Botanicollage” is a term she coined to describe the technique of creating direct animation films using botanical elements. Stan Brakhage pioneered these techniques in films such as Mothlight and Garden of Earthly Delights.

For Caryn, the kinesethic and haptic qualities of the materials and the process are important aspects of her filmmaking. She often picks site-specific plant materials— from the Conservatory in Volunteer Park in her Seattle neighborhood (In the Conservatory); from Riverside Park in Manhattan (Left Side, Riverside); from the Film Farm in Mount Forest, Ontario (Notes from the Farm); from a prairie restoration site in Missouri (All Grass is Flesh)—to work with. She’s particularly drawn to “weeds” and everyday plants that possess astonishingly beautiful qualities when viewed up close, plants such as shepherd’s purse or milkweed.

In addition to her direct animation work, Caryn also employs found footage, usually with various interventions—scratching, bleaching, and double-exposing or bi-packing with other materials. Her recent experimental documentary films, shot in and around Seattle, involved collaborations with other filmmakers. Besides making films, she teaches handmade “botanicollage” film workshops and is the co-founder and -curator of the Engauge Experimental Film Festival in Seattle, Washington.


Photo: Jennifer Griffith

Filmography

  • butterfly disaster
    2019
  • Light Coins
    2018
  • Trahere
    2018
  • An Optical Printer Duet
    2017
  • We Will Not Be Silent
    2017
  • Lost Winds
    2017
  • All Flesh is Grass
    2017
  • Tri-Alogue # 1-3
    2016 - 2017
  • Hand-made
    2016
  • Ektacy
    2015
  • Notes from the Farm
    2014
  • Compost Confidential
    2012
  • Equinox
    2011
  • Left Side, River Side
    2011
  • Botanicalistas
    2010
  • In the Conservatory
    2010
  • Compost Confidential
    2010
  • Lucy’s Terrace
    2009
  • Seattle Solstice
    2008
  • Perchance
    2008
  • Cycle
    2006
  • Recipe
    2001
  • The More You Do It
    1991
  • Tatum's Tune
    1991

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