Three Shorts
Directed by Hanna Rose Shell ’95
(TRT 41:30)
Screening:
Sunday, 12:30 p.m.
Locomotion in Water
13 minutes, 2005
Locomotion
in Water is an experimental
documentary about seeing movement, doing science and filming fish in Naples,
Italy. Moving between past and present, text and image, travelogue and reverie
— Locomotion in Water interweaves
the reflections of the nineteenth-century chronophotographer, Etienne-Jules
Marey (1830-1904) with the animating impulses of a modern-day filmmaker.
Secondhand (Pepe)
24
minutes, 2007
A
24-minute experimental documentary about used clothing. Filmmakers Shell &
Bertozzi weave two narratives into a visual and sonic journey. The historical
memoir of a Jewish immigrant rag picker intertwines with the present-day story
of "pepe" — secondhand clothing that flows from North America to
Haiti. Secondhand (Pepe) animates
the materiality of recycled clothes — their secret afterlives and the unspoken
connections among people in an era of globalization.
Blind
4:30
minutes
Blind is a film about the phenomenology of camouflage. The
four-and-a-half minute short both documents, and is itself, an experiment in hide-and-seek.
Structured through a first-person narrative about a traumatic experience of
depersonalization, Blind explores how to be, as how not to be seen – in nature
and on film.
Filmmaker Bio:
Hanna Rose Shell '95 is a
filmmaker and historian. She teaches at M.I.T., where she is an
assistant professor of Science, Technology, and Society. In addition to
making films and writing books, she teaches courses about science
studies and media theory. Her recent films have been screened at MoMA,
Anthology Film Archives, the Harvard Film Archive, the Margaret Mead
Festival, Black Maria Film and Video Festival, the Baltimore Museum of
Contemporary Art, as well as up and down the east coast and throughout
Europe.
