Hobart

Hobart

35mm , black and white, silent, 13 min
"Based on a surrealist novel by Boris Vian, a woman suffers from the ailment of a lotus flower growing in her lung. This near silent, near narrative section from Stracke's feature 'Circle's ...
Rental format: 35mm

Stills

About

"Based on a surrealist novel by Boris Vian, a woman suffers from the ailment of a lotus flower growing in her lung. This near silent, near narrative section from Stracke's feature 'Circle's Short Circuit' appears shredded, offering suggestions of gesture, intimations of emotions, and lost articulations. Fragments of a story dispersed in a timeless ether. Shot in Willamsburg, Brooklyn, even in the Mayonnaise tanks of the old Galapagos Art Space." -CS

Shortly after completing Circle's Short Circuit (1999), Stracke disassembled the footage from a section originally shot on 35mm, then re-edited it into this experimental short. As a nod to Joseph Cornell's celebrated found footage film, Rose Hobart (1936), Stracke approached the material 'with forced objectivity, as if the film maker would not have shredded his own work, but rather an old exotic adventure flick from the 30's'(Bangkok Experimental Film Festival).

Programs

  • See More

    Origins and Ends

    A program of 35mm films

    Combining origin stories with elegies and alternative histories, as well as explorations of desire, scraps, emergence, and obsolescence, “Origins and Ends” presents an array of experiments with cinema’s standard gauge, the use of which is decidedly rare in avant-garde film.

Films

  • Other films by this artist in our catalogue

  • Read More
    Afterbirth
    Experimental

    Afterbirth
    Caspar Stracke

    16mm, color, sound, 17 min
    Rental format: 16mm
  • Read More
    Locked Groove
    Experimental

    Locked Groove
    Caspar Stracke

    Betacam or DV, color and b/w, stereo, 7 min
    Rental format: Digi Beta PAL
  • Read More
    Circle's Short Circuit
    Experimental

    Circle's Short Circuit
    Caspar Stracke

    35mm, color and b/w, sound, 1.16 min
    Rental format: 35mm
    • Philosophical
    • Spiritual / Mystical
  • Read More
    Threads of Chomont
    Experimental

    Threads of Chomont
    Caspar Stracke

    Betacam or DV, color and b/w, stereo, 15.25 min
    Rental format: Digi Beta PAL
  • Read More
    Read Me
    Experimental

    Read Me
    Caspar Stracke

    Betacam or DV, color, stereo, 7 min
    Rental format: Digi Beta PAL