Music Video for the release of the single Topaz Wave from Tan Cologne’s (Lauren Green (ex Mirror Travel) and interdisciplinary artist Marissa Macias second album, Earth Visions Of Water Spaces, via Swedish label Labrador. Check them out here http://labrador.se/portfolio/tan-cologne/
Strange God, Tan Cologne’s single is accompanied by a video, made from a series of resurfaced 16mm footage from filmmaker, Carly Short.
Featuring “nautical imagery, portal-like punched-cut film, film glitches and leaked light,” the new video makes for the perfect visual companion to a song that is suitably cinematic. An intriguing swirl of voice and instrumentation, “Strange God” is both bold and bewitching, drifting through five-minutes of spellbinding magic that makes for the perfect backdrop to the skewed scenes playing out above.
Music Video made for Tan Cologne (Marissa Macias and Lauren Green)
Away to Sea is a short film in four parts: Inboard, Outboard, Onboard and Overboard. Each part functions as an elusive instruction manual indicating a way to get out to sea. It mediates on the modes of transportation as well as the language, soundscape, and an emotional journey of being on the water. Away to Sea may be screened on its own or accompanied by Good Voyage and A Boat Leaving Harbor.
A Boat Leaving Harbour, a text rendition of the Lumiere film by the same name from 1895. The text in Carly Short’s film is a shot by shot breakdown of the Lumiere film excerpted from Dai Vaughn’s essay Let There Be Lumiere. Short’s A Boat Leaving Harbour is a tribute to early cinema and a personal narrative of gendered roles in the fishing village from where the artist originates. Two men in a rowboat attempting to get out to sea while the women and children watch from land. A Boat Leaving Harbour may be accompanied with Away to Sea and Good Voyage.
A Boat Leaving Harbour, 16mm, B&W, silent, 1:29, 2018
"Good Voyage", black & white, original format 16mm, sound, 2:25, 2018
"Good Voyage", is a document of the final days of the Chapel of Our Lady of Good Voyage. The chapel was built in the Boston seaport in 1952 for the community of sailors, fisherman, dockworkers and those connected to the maritime industries to pray for their loved ones safe return. The chapel and a maimed sculpture of the virgin are shown amongst the erection of glass high rises in the rapidly developing seaport district. The only hint that the location is within the vicinity of the port is the faint sound of seagulls. "Good Voyage" may be shown with "A Boat Leaving Harbor" and "Away to Sea".
“Carly Short’s maritime reverie She Look Good, a collection of vignettes shot in the coastal town of Scituate, Massachusetts...how in the life of a fishing village the strong polarities of sea and land, harbor and hearth, define themselves through the other’s absence.”
– Nick Pinkerton, Art Forum
In part funded by Kodak, Fotokem Industries and CalArts.
She Look Good, 16mm, sound, color, 17 minutes,
A Taste of Darkness (work in progress) is a cross-disciplinary project rooted in the essay film form and also includes animation, installation and photography. The project weaves together the culinary world of the blind with the story of a young woman faced with the decision to keep a child. A Taste of Darkness is inspired by the life of Kathleen Groux (1915-1995), the grandmother of Artist Carly Short. Kathleen worked as a nutritionist at the Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown Massachusetts in the 1940’s through the 1960’s. When Kathleen found out she was pregnant she was unwed and decided to temporarily give her daughter to a foster family so that she could continue to make a living wage. A Taste of Darkness takes an intimate look inside of Kathleen’s notes, newspaper clippings, and food stained cookbooks. This work ultimately exposes both her limitations and her resilience as a working mother.
