Skinside Out, Swan's Island & Guilin Road
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2002 - 2005.
SKINSIDE OUT, 2002, 16mm film, 11 minutes,
by Katy Martin and Bill Brand.
— Premiered at the NEXT Wave Festival at The Brooklyn Academy of Music
A private, interior world takes shape within the coded context of shared urban space, as images from the studio are juxtaposed with footage of a construction barge along the Hudson River. By examining both in relation to surface, the work paradoxically looks for what lies within.
SWAN'S ISLAND, 2005, 16mm film, 5 minutes.
by Bill Brand and Katy Martin
— Premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York
SWAN'S ISLAND focuses on gesture in painting, and how that relates to the hand-held camera. The emphasis is on the physicality of painting, and its visceral connection to memory and imagination. Here, the movement of the artist's hand is expanded to include the entire body.
The film is about gesture as a kind of performance. Katy paints directly on her skin, and as she moves, leaves marks on the floor. Bill films the body and its trace, linking his own movement with cinematic space.
SWAN'S ISLAND explores the act of seeing as inextricable with that of being seen.
GUILIN ROAD, 2005, 5 minutes.
by Bill Brand and Katy Martin
Films
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Other films by this artist in our catalogue
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ExperimentalSuper 8 Silent, Films by Katy Martin, 1976-79
Katy Martinblack and white, sound, 53 minRental format: DVD NTSC - Read More
ExperimentalBreathing Twice
Katy Martincolor, sound, 7 minRental format: DVD NTSC - Read More
ExperimentalBy Night - No Stillness
Katy Martincolor, sound, 10 minRental format: DVD NTSC